Jim Ross recently appeared on “The MMA Hour” with Ariel Helwani, discussing his career and departure from WWE. Here are the highlights, and you can watch the entire episode below…
On His Career: “I’ve had a very blessed 39-year run in the sports entertainment world, the world of pro wrestling, so it seemed like a time to give with some other opportunities knocking on the door to give them a shot. No regrets. It’s all been great and more adventures ahead, hopefully.”
On if he Was Forced Out of WWE: “After a good discussion and expressing myself and things I’d like to do and just the timing of everything I think it was… when you say mutual it means partially to somebody that you’ve been forced out the door or been treated poorly or what have you, which really wasn’t the case. It was something that we had talked about kind of casually and it just seemed like with the lay of the land, it was good timing. I’m not really a negative guy. You and I have talked a few times and I’m pretty upbeat. I’ve always looked at the glass as half full as opposed than half empty. I had some health issues and thank God I’m over those. I’m taking good care of myself… I just think it was the right time. With everything presented as it was, it was just the very best decision to make and now we’re going to move on to the next thing.”
Once again, Jim Ross is remaining VERY classy. You’ve gotta’ give him credit for that.
