Big News: Jim Ross Retires from WWE

[CWK]

Per the WWE feed on Facebook, Jim Ross retired from WWE effective TODAY. It said he is retiring from the company to better focus on his business endeavors.

Thoughts?

[Razzamajazz]

it's on the front page of wwe.com too.

[Savio]

Uh what was he doing there?

[CWK]

Here's the link to the WWE.com article

http://www.wwe.com/inside/jim-ross-to-retire-26147422

[Rammsteinmad]

I'm sure he'll never be back. :roll:

[Razzamajazz]

yeah it's disappointing, but how often does he even announce anymore? the rare ppv? i'm not sure if he does anything backstage anymore either

[CWK]

Can't believe they didn't use him this year at WM29. Would have been nice to hear him call the Punk vs. Undertaker match.

Having him do pre and post show with a few other people like Kofi Kingston was pretty ridiculous IMO

[BigCrippyZ]

I'm sure he'll be around occasionally. Outside of hosting the PPV pre-shows and calling the occasional Wrestlemania match, I'm not sure what exactly he still did for the company in the last several years.

[dronepool]

Bah gawd he'll be back.

[Savio]

I bet Dixie is contacting him right now.

[taker707]

He has been a Talent Relations Consultant for NXT the past few years.

[GD]

Love Jim Ross. He was easily one of the greatest and likable personalities in the WWE.

[Bad News Gertner]

He has been a Talent Relations Consultant for NXT the past few years.

Do you still touch little girls?

[DrCrawford]

shows up in TNA

BAH GAWD ITS JR. ITS JR. JR!

seriously though, he is so good at announcing, not that it needed to be said - its obvious. I don't know what WWE thinks when they don't use him. If he went to TNA I might actually watch lol

[Wehttam]

Do you still touch little girls?

no he hasn't

he can't

that is why he is forced to just believe the 43 year old guy roleplaying as an 18 year girl who is roleplaying as a 14 year old girl to get off

[el bobbo]

seriously though, he is so good at announcing, not that it needed to be said - its obvious. I don't know what WWE thinks when they don't use him. If he went to TNA I might actually watch lol

God damn. That might be true.

[djoutcry]

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/mgbVGBsC_jQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

[slik]

Source: F4WOnline


As noted earlier, WWE announced this afternoon that Hall of Famer Jim Ross is retiring after 20 years with the company. According to F4WOnline.com, Ross met with Vince McMahon earlier today, and the decision was made to end his tenure with the company. The company reason for Ross' departure is that he wants to "focus on his personal business endeavors."

The report noted that the decision was made by Vince McMahon, and that they first heard that it could possibly happen on the day of SummerSlam following the 2K Sports panel. The panel, which was hosted by Ross, featured Ric Flair upsetting WWE officials for going off script and "hijacking" the event. There was heat on Ross for not cutting Flair off and taking control back over the panel. For what it's worth, McMahon commented on Ross' departure on his Twitter account, writing, "Thank you @JRsBBQ for 20 years of service with @WWE."

[Tazz Dan]

Just reading Ryan Clarks 'Breaking Update - x2' as to why he was 'fired', great reading. He manages to make the same 3 points and re-word them to make 10 different sub-points. Journalism at its best.

[Vastardikai]

JR's WWE Legacy: 20 years of subtle humiliation and downright disrespect.

[Mooияakeя™]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>The feedback I've received re: my <a href="https://twitter.com/WWE">@WWE</a> retirement has been amazing. Heartfelt thanks to all. I'm ready 4 the next adventure. Stay tuned!</p>&mdash; Jim Ross (@JRsBBQ) <a href="https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/statuses/377945641504489472">September 12, 2013</a></blockquote>

[Tom Guycott]

Just reading Ryan Clarks 'Breaking Update - x2' as to why he was 'fired', great reading. He manages to make the same 3 points and re-word them to make 10 different sub-points. Journalism at its best.

I'm waiting for:

Breaking Update - x5: EXCLUSIVE! JIM ROSS SPEAKS OUT ON BEING FIRED!!!

Only then, will the circle be complete.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Just reading Ryan Clarks 'Breaking Update - x2' as to why he was 'fired', great reading. He manages to make the same 3 points and re-word them to make 10 different sub-points. Journalism at its best.

Even cancer can't stop TazzDan from owning Ryan The Shitman Clarke.

[Mercenary]

If this is Flairs fault....Fuck you Flair

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Fuck that 2kSports loved what Flair did. Whoooooooo!

[Lock Jaw]

Have to admit, my heart jumped a bit when I visited WWE.com and the first thing I saw was a large picture of Jim Ross and a small bit of text beside it. Then I saw it was just a retirement announcement and chilled out.

[Black Widow]

It wasn't his fault flair was drunk. They should fire flair. Oh wait. Flair won 16 titles in a fake business.

[Bad News Gertner]

AJ Lee's shooting straight tonight

[Shisen Kopf]

It wasn't his fault flair was drunk. They should fire flair. Oh wait. Flair won 16 titles in a fake business.

You have to be fair to Flair.

[Juan]

Good for him.

[Theo Dious]

JR's WWE Legacy: 20 years of subtle humiliation and downright disrespect.

So sick of this idiocy. He wasn't treated any worse than anybody else; in fact WWE has done more to polish and shine up his legacy than anyone or anything. Without WWE he'd be remembered as some fat hick who did some announcing.

[erickman]

shows up in TNA

BAH GAWD ITS JR. ITS JR. JR!

seriously though, he is so good at announcing, not that it needed to be said - its obvious. I don't know what WWE thinks when they don't use him. If he went to TNA I might actually watch lol

do'nt think it will hapen him going to tna but him an taz back togather would be good.

[Vastardikai]

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/495/264/Vince_McMahon_Mocks_Jim_Ross_original_crop_north.jpg?w=340&h=234&q=75

Not disrespect.

[Emperor Smeat]

shows up in TNA

BAH GAWD ITS JR. ITS JR. JR!

seriously though, he is so good at announcing, not that it needed to be said - its obvious. I don't know what WWE thinks when they don't use him. If he went to TNA I might actually watch lol

TNA actually had a good chance of getting him in 2010 when his previous contract was almost up but only as a real GM and not as an announcer.

In 2010 there were talks between Ross and TNA to have Ross come in and serve as a legitimate general manager capacity in the front office but ultimately Ross decided to re-sign with the WWE at the time.

[JimmyMess]

I just read some of that post on the main page.... it just sounds too insane to be true.

And on top of it... what the hell was Jim Ross "fired" from? Doesn't he just do the occasional interview and voiceover stuff?

It all sounds retarded IMO

[Theo Dious]

http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/images/photos/002/495/264/Vince_McMahon_Mocks_Jim_Ross_original_crop_north.jpg?w=340&h=234&q=75

Not disrespect.

So tell me, how many times has the man in that picture been disrespected and humiliated in the same way? It's part of the ridiculous double standard of convenience that wrestling fans have. Vince McMahon's on-screen character is an evil, heartless bastard who will fuck with anyone. And anyone with an on-screen role is also a character as well. This kind of shit is as old as the face/heel dynamic. It even has a name: heat. Why is Jim Ross supposed to be immune to it?

[Cool King]

Have to admit, my heart jumped a bit when I visited WWE.com and the first thing I saw was a large picture of Jim Ross and a small bit of text beside it. Then I saw it was just a retirement announcement and chilled out.

That's how I found out about Eddie.

I remember I went to check out WWE.com and I saw a large picture of Eddie and some text but I didn't bother reading the text as I automatically assumed that it was just some sort of article on him or something.

I check out WWE.com a bit more and I do other things, until later in the night I go back to WWE.com and see the same picture but the text catches my eye this time and I read it and I was left completely shocked.

[Wehttam]

man jr was so disrespected and humiliated

he kept coming back

his fault

[Supreme Olajuwon]

man jr was so disrespected and humiliated

he kept coming back

his fault

battered announcer syndrome

[Hanso Amore]

So tell me, how many times has the man in that picture been disrespected and humiliated in the same way? It's part of the ridiculous double standard of convenience that wrestling fans have. Vince McMahon's on-screen character is an evil, heartless bastard who will fuck with anyone. And anyone with an on-screen role is also a character as well. This kind of shit is as old as the face/heel dynamic. It even has a name: heat. Why is Jim Ross supposed to be immune to it?

A few differences. When the Boss degrades himself its not the same as him shitting on his workers.

For 20 years his medical conditions and appearance have been mocked on the reg.

Give me a break. This falls into the "No matter what the side is, Tedious will always side with anyone as long as its against the standard." Add this to your list of despicable people and acts you "defend".

[Hanso Amore]

Ever notice its different if someone makes fun of their own family/wife as opposed to someone elses family?

[Hanso Amore]

Also cant remember how many times a 10 minute segment where people pulled things out of Vince's ass happened? maybe you can remind me.

[Vastardikai]

Or how many times Vince McMahon has been fired in his home town.

[Hanso Amore]

Or kicked in the dick Literally and Figuratively by multiple people on live TV.

[Blakeamus]

Having a heavy salary as a color commentator and being a part in segments of ridicule isn't so bad if you think about it. I'll take a 6 figure paycheck just to get kicked in the balls or fired from my hometown any day.

[Theo Dious]

Also cant remember how many times a 10 minute segment where people pulled things out of Vince's ass happened? maybe you can remind me.

Vince McMahon pissed himself in the ring, let himself get covered in shit in the ring, took a bedpan to the head, tossed Rikishi's salad, gotten kicked in the junk, etc, etc.

Why is JR the only guy who gets this "oh poor baby" treatment? Why isn't WWE decried for the humiliating things Michael Cole has been put through? What about the things that Bobby Heenan went through? There's a guy who was made to look like a complete ass on TV time and time again. How about Patterson and Brisco as Vince's stooges? I don't remember JR ever being tossed into a garbage truck a la Eric Bischoff... who incidentally also got face-raped by Mae Young at least once. Bobby Heenan and Jerry Lawler mercilessly verbally assaulted Bret Hart's parents for months on end. Mick Foley? How much of his career was made in WWE by being humiliated and looking pathetic? I could go on. But oh, that's right, having a disability inoculates you against that, right? Can't make fun of the handicapped... well unless you're Zack Gowan of course. Unless you're basically anybody else. Just not JR. Because he's special apparently. And none of this on-screen "humiliation" comes anywhere close to the kind of stuff that happened backstage for real in the territory days that so many people dry-hump on a consistent basis.

You take the good with the bad. You take the money, you play the part. JR could have walked a long time ago. But you know what, I have a feeling he sits back in his house knowing he's never going to want for anything and he's set for life, and it isn't due to his work for Jim Crockett or Bill Watts, it's his work for Vince McMahon. WWE consistently puts JR over as the greatest announcer in wrestling history. That is going to be his legacy. The only people who will see JR's legacy as one of humiliation and disrespect are the people who want a reason to hate Vince McMahon. You're on on-screen talent, you're a character. If you can't understand that and have to personalize everything, then you're a mark, plain and simple. And if Jim Ross didn't like what happened to his on-screen character, then he should have headed on home.

[Theo Dious]

Having a heavy salary as a color commentator and being a part in segments of ridicule isn't so bad if you think about it. I'll take a 6 figure paycheck just to get kicked in the balls or fired from my hometown any day.

I'd love for someone to, on the record, ask JR if he would trade his time in the business, good and bad, for anything on this planet. Is there anyone here who thinks he would say yes?

[Bad News Gertner]

A few differences. When the Boss degrades himself its not the same as him shitting on his workers.

For 20 years his medical conditions and appearance have been mocked on the reg.

Give me a break. This falls into the "No matter what the side is, Tedious will always side with anyone as long as its against the standard." Add this to your list of despicable people and acts you "defend".

I agree 100% with Tedious.

[Blakeamus]

Bah Gawd!

[Hanso Amore]

I agree 100% with Tedious.

Well if you want to go on record as a moron, then more power to you

[Hanso Amore]

I'd love for someone to, on the record, ask JR if he would trade his time in the business, good and bad, for anything on this planet. Is there anyone here who thinks he would say yes?

Fuck it, you think your life sucks and are jealous of JR. Because your life fell short he should just deal with abuse and shit. Cool. Thanks for coming.

[Hanso Amore]

Having a heavy salary as a color commentator and being a part in segments of ridicule isn't so bad if you think about it. I'll take a 6 figure paycheck just to get kicked in the balls or fired from my hometown any day.

I can make this happen

[Theo Dious]

Fuck it, you think your life sucks and are jealous of JR. Because your life fell short he should just deal with abuse and shit. Cool. Thanks for coming.

No, I'm saying that the only person whose opinion actually matters in this whole subject is his. If he thinks that the good that he has reaped from the wrestling business has been worth the bad, then that's how it is. I'm glad to see your continuing level of consistency when it comes to just hurling insults and snide remarks instead of actually forming thoughts and stuff though.

[Tom Guycott]

I pretty much agree with Tedious, insomuch as if it really weren't cool to be the ass end of jokes for 20 years, I'm sure JR would have had something to say about it long before now. Hell, something as serious as Lawler dropping dead from a heart attack is now open season on the announce table. I would assume if Jerry were raw about the subject matter, that would never happen on air as comfortably as it has in random banter, or nearly as often. Paul Bearer's ACTUAL DEATH was used to add drama to an Undertaker angle. Everytime they went to Oklahoma, they make it a point to a) bring out Ross for the hometown pop, and b) use his noteriety to try to get someone some heat for beating up on the homer. If he truly wasn't down for that, I'm sure we wouldn't have had nearly as many "JR appreciation nights" as we have seen in the last 10-15 years.

The only time I ever remember anyone making fun of JR was truly considered in completely poor taste by and large is when Ed Ferrara did it in WCW. In that case, its like the difference between you playfully calling your gay brother a "fucking homo", as opposed to some random stranger in the street doing the same thing. It doesn't equate.

[Theo Dious]

But yeah, for the record, I'd endure any of JR's supposed humiliations and disrespect for the chance to be at the center of the wrestling world for 20 years and have a literal ringside seat for and play an integral role in some of the greatest moments of its history. I'd be happy to play the on-screen role of a guy who gets shit on by a cruel boss if it afforded me the opportunity to have the unique and priceless experiences Jim Ross has had.

[Bad News Gertner]

Well if you want to go on record as a moron, then more power to you

Well you're wrong, and Jim Ross has commented on this before, so again, you're wrong.

[Theo Dious]

Well you're wrong, and Jim Ross has commented on this before, so again, you're wrong.

Clearly JR was only saying that to suck up to Vince McMahon so as to avoid having his children raped on TV for ratings.

[Bad News Gertner]

The only time I ever remember anyone making fun of JR was truly considered in completely poor taste by and large is when Ed Ferrara did it in WCW. In that case, its like the difference between you playfully calling your gay brother a "fucking homo", as opposed to some random stranger in the street doing the same thing. It doesn't equate.

Agreed. There's using something to further a wrestling angle and there's just being mean. Russo and Ferrara were just mean.

[Curd]

Now instead of being set aflame by Kane, good ol' JR will be "fired" in a cauldron by Texas cannibals this Halloween. Slathered in his own BBQ sauce, no less!

[Kane Knight]

And nothing of value was lost.

[Volare]

And nothing of value was lost.

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/998958_1415596341992491_1369667861_n.jpg