April 3, 2019 | 3:19pm | Updated April 3, 2019 | 3:54pm.
All Elite Wrestling has announced the signing of Hall of Fame announcer Jim Ross to a lucrative three-year contract with the upstart promotion. He will get a chance to keep giving as a mentor and role model to AEW’s young roster.
But to think it’s going to cripple it? Jim Ross, the former WWE commentator lambasted WWE for its rating war with AEW during Grilling JR Podcast. Or will a determined Vince keep fighting the fight? “We all share a common goal to make this the true golden age, to make this the greatest time ever to be a professional wrestling fan.”, Ross has known Khan, Cody, the Bucks and Omega for a long time and stated in the release his believes he is getting in “on the ground floor of one of the most exciting moments in the history of pro wrestling.”. In addition to calling AEW Dynamite with Tony Schiavone and Excalibur, Ross was the voice of … Legendary wrestling play-by-play commentator Jim Ross is one of the many notable former WWE talents working in the AEW promotion.
Look at the bigger picture. Alex is a long-time sports enthusiast; which all started when he began playing EA Sports games on Nintendo 64. He is excited to join AEW, which was launched in January, and is run by president Tony Khan,, Cody Rhodes, the Young Bucks Matt and Nick Jackson and Kenny Omega. WWE’s black and gold brand did beat AEW Dynamite in viewership last week with Halloween Havoc, but they still lost in the ratings. Every time I have been down, the wrestling fans have picked me up,” Ross said on the show. Nowadays, Jim Ross works as a commentator and senior advisor for AEW. The agreement is described as “the most lucrative deal in commentary history”. “Social media has helped me make this decision even quicker because there are some idiots that believe the game has passed me by,” Ross said on “The Road to Double or Nothing.” “All I can say to you folks is stay tuned.”, What Sam Darnold has noticed in watching Le'Veon Bell tape, This story has been shared 44,701 times.
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On the company’s YouTube show, “The Road to Double or Nothing”, Ross speaks about the depression he felt after his wife Jan was killed in a car crash in March of 2017, about not wanting to end his time in wrestling and feeling he still had something to offer the business. Jim Ross opens up on AEW Jim Ross sees the trend, and he realizes that AEW Dynamite has a significant foothold over their NXT competition. Now the Wednesday Night War lights up cable every week, and it’s not really working for NXT. While NXT defeated AEW Dynamite in viewership last week with its Halloween Havoc event, they still lost in the ratings. Per Marc Middleton of WrestlingInc.com, the NXT Halloween Havoc episode recorded 876,000 viewers compared to 781,000 for Dynamite. Jim Ross sees the trend, and he realizes that AEW Dynamite has a significant foothold over their NXT competition. He said that AEW is kicking NXT’s ass every week as he mocked WWE’s “brilliant evil strategy.”, “How’s that working? Ross believes he can still do the job and has seen and heard his critics say otherwise. Look at the bigger picture. Going head to head is good in a boardroom, it’s good in a rah-rah meeting, but at the end of the day, you bring more people to a television set that are wrestling fans at 8 o’ clock eastern time on Wednesday night because you’ve got two brands now that the audience can sample.”, “They can watch one, they can DVR one, they can switch back and forth, whatever the hell you do.