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MUST READ JIM ROSS BLOG , TALKS EVERYTHING ,CM PUNK, TNA AND
MORE.
DIR By: spaintnafan
Date: January 1, 2015, 5:17 pm
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Jim Ross spoke with The Mirror promoting the NJPW Wrestle
Kingdom 9 show. Check out the highlights:
On Jeff Jarrett contacting him to work GFW: “Jeff made the
inroads, he and my business manager worked out the deal, it was
a win-win for both of us, so I said ‘I’m in.’ I’m excited about
it. I’ve been in this business for 40 years, so when you get a
chance to do something new after being around that long, it’s
pretty motivating. I look at this as a new adventure, it’s going
to be a lot of fun.”
On if he’ll do more shows: “I don’t know if I’ll do any more, I
don’t know that I want to do any more. If there’s anything after
that it’ll be a bonus. But I’m going to do this show, I’m
preparing to do this show, like it’s my last major pay-per-view
lead play-by-play.”
On his preparation for the show: “I’m not going to phone
anything in. I’m going to be prepared. It may not be as smooth
as with the WWE guys, because a lot of those guys, in one period
in time, I hired, so obviously I knew them well. These are guys
I’ve never watched wrestle in person ever. I’m going to let my
instincts take over. I think it has the chance to be a good
broadcast. People say, ‘Do you know what’s going to happen in
the matches?’ Well, yeah, generally, but the less I know the
better my performance is.”
On his WWE departure: “I had 21 years there – it wasn’t like I
had a brief little run and everything was over. I had a great
run in WWE, I went into the Hall of Fame, there were a lot more
good days than bad ones. Was it the ideal way to exit? Probably
not. I assumed a level of responsibility in that SummerSlam
symposium, I was driving the train and the train got off the
tracks, so the decision was made that it wasn’t a good thing and
I moved on.”
On if he would go back to WWE: “There’s an old expression in
wrestling that says ‘never say never’, when you are in my stage
of my life, where I’ve been so blessed with this career, I’m not
going to tell you that I’d never go [back] but it’d strictly
depend on my role and how much time away from home it would
demand. I leave the door open. Would I say definitively no, I
would never work for WWE again? Absolutely not. It would
necessitate me to give it some thought and it would depend on
what the job description was and what they wanted me to do. I’m
62, I’ll be 63 in January, I have to be conscious of jobs.”
On the presence of social media in wrestling: “Social media has
become a member of the family, whether you want them to move in
or not, they’re there. With WWE or any wrestling organisation,
you didn’t want to reveal the outcomes of things … it’s like
people that review a movie, they’ll do a review with a thumbs up
or thumbs down, but I’ve never read a movie review that revealed
the end of the movie. In the wrestling world, the spoilers are a
big deal, people love to get the news ahead of time, they rush
to their computer to get the scoop, and then they give away the
ending of the movie. I don’t find that to be the least bit
entertaining or necessary information for me. I’d rather not
know the ending of the movie until I see it.”
On if TNA has tried to lure him over since he left WWE: “No.
They know I don’t have any desire to get back in the weekly
grind of that. Dixie and no-one else has asked about me coming
back full-time and that’s why this opportunity [with GFW] was so
fit really – it was a one-time deal, a one-off. I like knowing I
don’t have any pressure on me beyond that, I can focus on this
one big event, really try to nail it without any pressure that
I’ve got to do something tomorrow, or next week, or next month.”
On John Cena: “Since we signed John Cena, no-one has outworked
John Cena. John Cena’s work ethic is beyond reproach. It’s been
phenomenal to see what he does and he’s made himself a brand.
John was willing to do things that had not been done, he was
willing to take a chance – his wrestling attire was
non-traditional, he was a Caucasian rapper and that was unique
for wrestling, that was bold. Vince made a good point, Cena did
all he could to become the guy. Has anyone else since John Cena
worked in every phase of their game to get really good? I think
the argument could be made that some have worked as hard as Cena
in some areas, but not across the board as he has. Sometimes if
you look at your talent as athletes, not entertainers, they need
to be challenged occasionally – we need you to play better, I
need you to lose 20 pounds, I need you to work on your tan, as
silly as that sounds. From an athletic point of view, every
coach has those heart-to-hearts with their team at some point in
time. If you’re going to go down the athletic road, every now
and then they need a pep talk, and every now and then they need
to ask themselves, ‘What have I done to make myself better than
I was last week? What am I doing to make myself a more valuable
player?’
On Vince McMahon’s “brass ring” comment: “I think Vince is
sending a subtle message there, or not-so-subtle, that Cena was
the last guy that went the complete distance to grab the brass
ring. And then when he grabbed the brass ring he didn’t quit
growing, he kept trying to get better. He’s their guy right now,
lord knows what they would be without John Cena.”
On the argument that Cena is overexposed: “I can never agree
with people that say ‘Cena’s overexposed’ … you think that’s the
way WWE likes it? You don’t think they’d like to have John Cena
as number one, and have a 1A, a 1B, and a 1C? People think you
can wave a magic wand and create a star, that couldn’t be
further from the truth. People think that a promoter has all the
cards and the talents are merely pawns and they have very little
do with the bigger success, when they have most of their success
because of what they do. I think the guys need to be more
aggressive in pushing the envelope, they’ve got to do more
things to get better. There’s never been a more challenging time
to become a wrestling star than there is right now. However,
there’s never been a more opportune time to break through and
become big and make massive money quickly. There’s so few
legitimate main event level stars. If you can break through that
ceiling, you can print money. Everybody will tell you they want
to headline WrestleMania, but they’d spit the bit. It’s a
horseman term, the horse wouldn’t like the bit in his mouth so
he’d spit it out. Some guys talk a big game about wanting to
headline WrestleMania – and I don’t mean CM Punk whatsoever –
but then you need to do that. That should be your goal every
day, it should be your last thought when you lay your head on
your pillow, ‘I want to headline WrestleMania’.”
On CM Punk’s departure: “I’d say the issues there, the culprit
can largely be pointed out as a lack of communication or a
communication breakdown. Both parties at some point, seemingly,
stopped communicating to a significant degree – just enough to
get by and that’s it. That’s how it seems. The key thing is that
every talent is different and everybody’s personality is
different, you’ve got to be very aware of your surroundings and
how these talents are reacting, their body language – are they
loners? Have they migrated to another group of disgruntled guys?
There’s a lot of scenarios. The overall thing I would have tried
to have done was stay observant and keep my ear to the ground so
I could hear troubling and I would have tried to maintain more
reciprocal communication.”
On Steve Austin’s walking out and return: “I knew that Austin
was miserable at home, he worked his whole career to become a
star, he finally became a star, then through a lack of timely
communication and the fact he was burned out, he went home.
After he’d been gone for eight months, I knew him well enough
that he was ready to get out of the house and re-engage but to
do that he needed to communicate openly, honestly and privately
with the chairman. I arranged for them to have a meeting in
Houston and they both wanted me to come to the meeting. I told
Vince, ‘I’m not doing it. You can order me there and I’ll be
sick, I’ll have a sick day. We’re not going to accomplish what
we need to accomplish as a company if I’m there. This needs to
be completely the two of you and let the cards fall where they
may. You can both be brutally honest, you can be upfront, and it
stays right there in that room.’ I don’t know how the
conversation went, I don’t know what they both said, I don’t
know how close it came to be being not a positive meeting, all I
know is that the result we wanted occurred.”.
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Re: MUST READ JIM ROSS BLOG , TALKS EVERYTHING ,CM PUNK, TNA AND
MORE.
DIR By: tnagirl
Date: January 4, 2015, 11:52 am
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Very good read
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