Jim Ross is a WWE Hall of Famer, and he’s considered by many to be the greatest professional wrestling commentator of all time. Ross has seen some incredible things during his time working in the wrestling business, and he’s sharing his story with the world via his new book Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling.
The book features a foreword which was written by Vince McMahon, and during a recent appearance on The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling podcast, Ross said that Vince was his first choice to write the foreword.
“He was my first choice. He was my overall number one draft pick and I got what I wanted which I am happy to say. Somebody asked me just how hard it was to get Vince to do my foreword and I said I just sent him a text. He responded and said that he’d be proud to do it. So he did and it was great. Stone Cold did the afterword and we got contributions from The Rock and Bob Stoops (before he resigned from Oklahoma) and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Mark Cuban (the other billionaire I work for) so it is really a fun thing and I think that there is a lot of life lessons in this book and one thing I can tell you is that it is not a wrestling book. It is not JR outlines his ten favorite matches or JR’s ten favorite wrestlers or ten matches I hated the worst or my best draft pick or whatever, it is not that it is about life and my life is so intertwined with wrestling that almost anywhere in my journey wrestling has embraced that aspect of my living being.”
It was recently announced that the War Games match will be returning at the upcoming NXT TakeOver: WarGames event next month, and Jim Ross said he was happy to see WWE resurrect the concept.
“I was happy. It is a neat hook to build around for the NXT Takeover. It is a very marketable tool and that is how I look at it. It’s got name identity with some older wrestling fans and the name has been bandied about some to the younger fans and trickled down. War Games has got a little bit of a legacy, if it and I don’t know exactly the structure of it but I can just tell you that if it is executed correctly it could really be special. I thought over the years and maybe it is just my own bias but I thought in the early going of the War Games we had better matches than they subsequently got and the end of the War Games. But I may be bias and wrong but that is my take on it.”
In regards to whether or not he wants to do commentary for the upcoming War Games match, Ross made it clear that he will make himself available if he gets the call.
“I am certainly sure that even with my busy book signing schedule, if I was needed in Houston for NXT Takeover I’d certainly make myself available (laughing).”
