Jim Ross recently discussed his favorite year as a wrestling announcer during the latest edition of his “Grilling JR” podcast.
According to Ross, 1989 holds a special place in his heart, and he elaborated on the reasons behind his choice. He said,
“That was my favorite year in all my years I’ve been in the wrestling business because of the quality of matches. Then after Ricky, you’d get Terry Funk, who’s having a glory year — he hadn’t missed a beat. We forget just how talented a worker he was, but boy, this was art. Everybody in wrestling today can learn from watching Flair versus Steamboat, and Flair versus Funk. It’ll go down in history, at least to me, as the best wrestling year. I didn’t have a better wrestling year. Maybe there was a year or so in the Attitude Era when [Steve] Austin got really hot … but other than that, ’89 was it.“
