James William Ross, or most popular in the name Jim Ross, is a professional commentator in WWE SmackDown. He was considered as among the best commentators in the whole history of WWE and labeled as the WWE’s voice.

Prior to being a commentator, he has been a player on their high school baseball team. Aside from this, he has also played football for two conferences. While doing the entire sports task, he was still able to maintain a very good academic standing as he became a speech champion during his time.

Being good in speech, he started commenting on their college radio. This experience was the reason why he was given the opportunity to announce on a certain event when the real commentator was not able to arrive.

His career being a commentator started when he was employed in the Mid-South territory when it was bought by Bill Watts. He then became their lead man during 1986. He then worked hard in order to be successful on this field however he had an issue with Eric Bischoff during his time in World Championship wrestling. Ross was then released, upon his demand, after Bischoff was promoted as executive producer.

After being released from WCW, World Wrestling Federation, which later on became WWE hired Ross and became the primary voice of every pay-per-view during that time. However, the position was taken by Vince McMahon when SummerSlam 1993 started.

He then took a hosting job at Radio WWF together with Gorilla Monsoon, a former WrestleMania announcer, for a year. Both of them called the Survivor Series and SummerSlam in 1993 for television and Royal Rumble for the radio. However, all the fame ended as he was fired because of his first Bell’s palsy attack in 1994.

Ross was rehired by WWF again as Vince McMahon was charged by the federal government and ceased commenting. His career continued and reclaimed his title of being the WWF’s main voice. But this was cut short again due to a second Bell’s palsy attack. But he is still a part of the WWE until today and is still doing a lot of commentator tasks in matches.

Aside from being a commentator, he also has a barbeque restaurant named J.R.’s Family Bar-B-Q and is planning on expanding this business.

So in conclusion, WWE fans through the years may say that WWE Universe is not complete without Jim Ross being included on its history.

Real Name: James William Ross
Date of Birth: January 3, 1952

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