Jim Ross Says Talents Must Not be Afraid to Speak Up

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross recently took to his blog,  JRsBarBq.com, on Thursday, Feb. 13, in order to give his thoughts on a wide variety of topics. These topics included talents being afraid to speak up across wrestling promotions today, Michael Sam, an NFL prospect who recently came out, his Ringside: An Evening with Jim Ross Tour, and others.

Jim Ross wrote the following in regards to talents currently having the mindset to not speak up:

“If any wrestling company fosters a backstage environment that does not encourage their talents to speak up and get more involved in their careers from a presentation and creative standpoint, that company is asking for hard times. In ring participants like to perform and to create or they wouldn’t be in the biz. If one is a performer then they likely have an above average abundance of creativity. Any show business entity that stifles creativity from their performers is myopic.

Talents cannot be afraid to speak up but unfortunately because of the shrinking number of places a talent can work and earn a decent living the “don’t rock the boat” philosophy seems to permeate the wrestling business.

That’s not healthy for anyone involved.”

“Good Ol’ JR” also revealed an upcoming podcast project with “Stone Cold” Steve Austin:

“I had a great audio session this week with @steveaustinBSR for the Ross Report podcast that will be debuting THIS Wednesday on Podcastone.com and ITunes and it’s always FREE. A new podcast will drop every Wednesday. Austin talks about some unique, WrestleMania topics, his booking thoughts on Daniel Bryan and what Bryan needs to address to get over even more, the CM Punk saga, thoughts on NOT wrestling a program with @HulkHogan, @Goldberg and @BrockLesnar, where the original Smoking Skull Title Belt is today, along with much more including his thoughts on Steve attending WM30.”

Ross also informed his readers on another upcoming project revolving around WrestleMania XXX for FoxSports.com:

“Speaking of FoxSports.com, I am going to write a three part series on WrestleMania that will run throughout the month of March.”   

Be sure to checkout Jim Ross’ website, JRsBarBq.com. There, you can keep up to date with “Good Ol’ JR” with his blog posts, Q&A section, updates regarding his tour, JR products, and more.