During his latest “The Ross Report” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross discussed the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) promotion and revealed how they can avoid the same mistakes WCW made and more. You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On AEW avoiding becoming the next WCW: “Well, they’ve got to continue to create stars. They’ve got to continue to provide something new and exciting and talented to the fanbase. They’ve got to have a great television clearance as they start their weekly run this fall, I am told or as I read. So I think that’s important. They’ve struck a chord with many on social media.” Ross continued, “their footprint, thanks to their social media expertise, is serving them well. But the main thing is they’ve got to cultivate a talented roster. They can’t get stale or predictable and continue to produce great episodic, hard-hitting, no eye-rolling content every week. It’s a hell of a big job and it ain’t going to be easy.”
On his WWE talent relations job: “Coming [to WWE] from WCW [in 1993], I was not the most popular hire. It’s funny. I read things where people say, ‘well, J.R. did this when he was in Talent Relations’ or ‘J.R. did that.’ They don’t understand that I followed the orders of one guy. Does that make any sense to you? Is that a foreign thing [now] that you don’t have to take your direction from your leader? That’s the way I was raised. That’s the way I do business today. The point is, is that Vince McMahon hired me. That was good enough for me. But I see some guys with revisionist history on some issues, ‘well, that was J.R.’s fault. This was J.R.’s fault.”
