The ex-Volunteer coach was greeted by the GFW fans at Smokies Park with a chorus of boos when he led the promotion’s premier heel tag team to the ring to square off against members of the popular New Japan Pro Wrestling faction The Bullet Club. But the boos, and Tyndall’s stay as a heel, did not last long. From the Knoxville News:
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Following the event, he took to Twitter to announce his retirement from the world of sports entertainment.
“I’ve wanted to do it many times,” Tyndall said. “And I’m not going to sugar-coat it. Sometimes I wanted to do it to one of my players. I popped him pretty good and that thing shattered.”
The connection between Tyndall and Global Force Wrestling is a unique one, but not all that surprising. The promotion’s founder, Jeff Jarrett, is a long-time Tennessean and avid sports fan. Global Force Wrestling also employs Justin Phelps, who served as Tyndall’s director of basketball operations for the Volunteers.
Tyndall was fired in March after just one season with the Volunteers following an NCAA investigation into the Southern Mississippi program, where Tyndall coached for two seasons.
