Jim Ross was considered by many to be the voice of WWE for years, but it’s no big secret that he’s had his ups and downs with the company. Good Old JR was sometimes placed into some embarrassing angles on WWE programming, and former WWE announced Todd Grisham recently claimed that Vince McMahon hated Jim Ross.
While talking about his relationship with Vince McMahon on Grilling JR the Hall of Famer admitted that he never understood Vince’s animosity toward him.
“I have never understood Vince’s intense animosity, I think he was jealous. He was never the play-by-play guy that I was, but he didn’t want to give me any credit for helping build the Attitude Era into what it was. I’m not the only person responsible for that, for God’s sakes, I’m not trying to say that. All I’m trying to say is I signed all those guys that made him millions of dollars and facilitated the company going public. Those are my guys, that was my roster.”
Ross also clarified that he holds no animosity toward Vince McMahon when he added, “I always put my faith in my work. I thought I could call a good match if the match was there…as much grief as he gave me, I could always look at my bank account and get happy. So I never had the animosity toward Vince that he had toward me and I never got it. I didn’t screw him around, I never no-showed, I didn’t phone anything in, I was doing two or three jobs…I never understood it. I worked my a** off, but sometimes that’s just the way that it is. And I had a choice to carry that animosity and that angst with me or cut it loose and move on. The latter is what I’ve done and I will continue to do.”