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Sunday, September 6, 2020

Grilling JR #01: Leaving WCW

[VIDEO] This is the first Grilling J.R. podcast where Conrad Thompson and Jim Ross - the legendary voice of WWF Monday Night Raw. In this episode we hear J.R.'s account of the events surrounding his departure from World Championship Wrestling owned at that point by Ted Turner and his Turner Broadcasting properties.

I think he compared what was going on at WCW back during his time with them back in the early 1990s to a terminal medical condition. As happened WCW is now a property of Ross' former employe WWF now WWE. Whatever afflicted WCW proved to be terminal as WCW no longer exists as an entity.

He also couples what happened back then to him meeting his wife Jan. Ross already had two marriages under his belt and he was working on his next one. Unfortunately Jan died in 2017 after a vehicular accident so there are quite a few stories from Ross as far as his relationship with her back then.

And then of course, he talks about the situation within the Turner organization. It's very fascinating.

BTW, these days you can catch up with Jim Ross as the voice of All Elite Wrestling which currently airs on Turner Network Television aka TNA every Wednesday night on their program Dynamite.