Jim Ross stopped for an in-depth interview with Submission Radio over the weekend. You can check out the full interview by clicking here (starting at the 55:14 mark), below are some highlights:
Thoughts on TNA:
“Well they have to find a North American cable television partner. They gotta find it by the 1st of the year because that’s when there extension with Spike ends. So they have to find that partner that pays them enough rights fees to help pay their bills. They can’t make, it I don’t think – that’s my assumptions – I am assuming that TNA Impact wrestling cannot survive long term, simply on the money they earn outside the United States or outside North America. It’s just not there to pay their bills, and other than that, they’re gonna have to do some retooling on their business model and they’re gonna have to work on their budget. So if they don’t have that money, I think it’s imperative that they get an North American cable outlet that pays them enough money to help them keep their doors open. And I hope that they succeed. They have a potential to be a good brand. I think they have a very variable talent roaster, but I would put it in terms this way, some of them are cast wrong if you wanna use a showbiz term. They’re in the wrong rolls, and using an American Football term I think they’re running the wrong system. Their talents aren’t being used to fit the talent’s strengths. But I have a lot of friends that work there and I hope they get a second chance and that they succeed in the future.
“TNA’s gotta change the way they present their product if they do get in a new environment, and if they do, they have to become the alternative to the WWE and not be compared as a ‘WWE lite’ comparison.”
If Sting will ever wrestle in the WWE:
“Yeah I do. One time. Wrestlemania 31”
If Kurt Angle would be back in the WWE before he retires:
“Only if he can pass a full physical that satisfies the WWE medical team because of his neck.”
If Steve Austin will come back for one last match at Wrestlemania:
“I’d like for it to happen, I don’t think it will”.
