Details About Scott Hall, Jim Ross, and More Regarding Global Force Wrestling

New reports from Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and F4Wonline.com have provided further details about Scott Hall, Jim Ross, and more regarding Global Force Wrestling and their involvement with the promotion. As noted before, GFW had previously signed Hall on to be a “legend” on the roster, but he was then removed from the GFW website. It was also previously reported that GFW President Jeff Jarrett wants Ross to be a part of the GFW announce team.

Hall was removed from the roster following the TMZ report that Hall was kicked out of an event in New Jersey due to being intoxicated and unruly. Some then speculated on whether or not Hall’s GFW role was taken away from him due to that occurrence, or if it had anything to do with WWE wanting to use Hall in NXT, or because of his WWE Legend’s deal.

Meltzer claims that Hall was in fact removed from the GFW roster due to the incident in New Jersey, and not because of anything that has to do with WWE. He writes,

“Although there are rumors to the contrary, Scott Hall was pulled from Global Force Wrestling as soon as the first TMZ story broke last week and that was the reason, not anything else. As best we can tell, there is no television deal in place.”

Meltzer also discusses GFW’s desire to have Ross as their main color commentary, teaming with Chael Sonnen, who’s being labeled an “analyst,” saying,

“It appears they are looking at the idea of using the Jim Ross/Chael Sonnen duo as the announcers, and keep in mind Ross has no deal and I’m hearing Sonnen, while at their press conference and doing videos and all, hasn’t actually signed his deal either. The idea is to use their names to help get a television deal and get a better price and use that television money to pay them. In the end, it’s the same deal as it’s been from the start, everything as far as success or failure depends on getting a television deal. GFW has added a show on 7/9 at the minor league ballpark in Appleton, WI.”

Editor’s Note:

Best thing for GFW would be to snatch up Good Ol’ JR. Him providing color alone would get people to tune into the program, whenever the episodes find a home on TV.