Talk:Jim Ross/Archive 1

message: This article seems to be written all in character, trying not to break kayfabe. Other articles on Wikipedia(Kayfabe) state that he wasn't actually fired, but recovering from colon surgery. Surely that should be mentioned here. 209.33.36.146 00:06, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting Reports 

message: I remember that back in early 1999, like sometime in March, Jim Ross was a heel since he just came back from having bells palsey and was mad at WWE for not bringing him back.  He ordered Dr. Death Steve Williams to take people out, and I remember them constructing a new announce table just for Jim Ross right in front of the regular announce table.  I'm wondering whether any of this should be added into the article or it is just more of the same and doesn't need to be said.
* This stuff does need to be added, among other things. There is a huge 10 year gap in this article. We know nearly nothing about his first 10 years in WWE. Off the top of my head, he debuted at WrestleMania in 1993, was legitimetly fired twice, left the booth from late 98 to early 99 due to Bells Palsey (and I think earlier on as well). He was the third man in the both with Vince and King for a while, becoming the lead announcer in late 97 when Vince became "Mr. McMahon.". And obviously there's a lot more. Mshake3 00:10, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stone Cold Steve Austin. Try looking at wrestling sites before posting something like this. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a forum.--Hndsmepete 02:04, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More on Jim Ross 

message: It says that Mark Henry and the Coach were going to team together to face Stone Cold Steve Austin.  But we all know that Mark Henry made his return on Smackdown.  Unless someone has concrete evidence that Mark Henry was scheduled to be at Taboo Tuesday, then I feel that it should be removed.  fishhead2100 May 1, 2006 2:05PM (UTC)
* It was always going to be Coach vs. Austin. I did hear that Henry was going to cost Austin the match, but it was never going to be a handicap match. Mshake3 00:11, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mark Henry and Taboo Tuesday '05 

message: there a remore that JR is leave WWE can we confrimed these?
:WHAT?????83.67.75.213 12:59, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: leave WWE

message: Pretty good article, but I have to wonder how much of it is kayfabe versus actual information about his career?  One reason I'm somewhat skeptical about parts of the article is that according to public SEC filings Jim Ross was, as recently as August 2005, an executive vice president and major shareholder in WWE. (I originally found this out pretty much by accident while considering investing in the company.)  So while his on-screen persona is that of merely a ring side commentator with little actual power or influence in the WWE organization, in actuality he ranked just behind Linda McMahon in terms of stocks held and, presumably, behind the scene influence as recently as a year and a half ago.
It would be interesting if someone could actually do a little additional digging on reliable business related sources to see if anything can be found out to seperate Jim Ross the executive vice president from "Good Ol' JR" the kayfabe persona. Dugwiki 23:15, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I understand, his character is pretty much his personality, sorta like CM Punk's is. I think it's common knowledge that he was Executive VP of Talent Relations, in addition to being RAW play-by-play commentator. Anakinjmt 15:41, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much is kayfabe? 

message: Something peculiarly has been added in the first paragraph, "Jim Ross is a great man who is not very well known but should be". It also contains no full stop, and seems to be someone who has decided to all of a sudden add it due to their own personal opinion... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.154.249.129 (talk) 09:10, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's this? 

message: Seriously, does JR really weigh in at 93 kg? I find that hard to believe.. He's got to be at least 100kg or so. Paul London's weight is 93kg and it just seems so wrong that these two would be equally heavy.. 194.68.104.18 10:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight 

message: Jim Ross was in WCW as well.  I have some old WCW trading cards with Sting (back in his 1980 days) and there are some Jim Ross cards. Jim Ross was an announcer for WCW as well. I'm ImmortalKaine BTW 70.49.207.65 04:04, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jim's WCW Days

message: I'm pretty sure JR brought out an autobiography, which would be a justified picture for the infobox???Macca7174 11:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture From Autobiography

message: * Ross, despite not being a wrestler, has defeated Triple H in the three matches they have had together.
* The first JR WWF action figure was made with a defect; on JR's jacket it was supposed to say, "War Zone" but instead it said, "War Tony."
* Despite the fact that he was working for the WWF at the time, JR was the last voice heard on the very last WCW Monday Nitro.
* JR's entrance theme is "Boomer Sooner", the fight song of the University of Oklahoma.
* Ross is a member of Phi Lambda Chi Fraternity from his college days at Northeastern State University.
* Wrestler Mick Foley makes several references to J.R in all his books, and mentions that his screamed ("As God as my witness, he is broken in half!") commentary of the infamous 1998 Hell in a Cell match was the best sports commentary of all time. He also expressed his disdain for the McMahon-helmed skit about J.R's colon surgery.
: Per the Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles guideline, I've migrated this section here so that it may be sourced, then integrated into the article where and if appropriate. Yamaguchi先生 03:57, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: I would like the list of injuries J.R. has suffered during his WWE tenure to be returned to the page. They are a true example of deciation Jim Ross has, by taking all of that abuse and still staying with WWETonyWWE 23:49, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  J.R.'s injuries 

message: --Ryd2603 11:44, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mrs JR 

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