Jim Ross Claims He is Interested in Working For Global Force Wrestling

WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross claims he is interested in working for Global Force Wrestling should his involvement benefit both parties. It was previously reported earlier in the week that Ross is in talks with the upstart wrestling organization to provide commentary for their programs.

GFW is currently prepping for its first Pay-Per-View in January of 2015. With Ross potentially working with the company, many are talking about how much of a great step in progress that would be for GFW’s first big show.

Ross was asked about whether or not he would like to call the bouts for Global Force Wrestling’s inaugural PPV event by MMANews.com. When speaking about the opportunity, Ross said,

“Yeah, I’m doing my podcast, I’m in entrepreneurial mode right now. I don’t do a lot of things that conflict with OU football, but I’m doing my podcast, it’s doing really well. We manage about half a million downloads per week and it’s growing.

I’m in the process of working on my autobiography, that should be done by spring or summer 2015. I’m doing some writing for FOX, we’re talking to FOX about maybe doing some more boxing play-by-play, which I had fun doing, I’m a big boxing fan.

My point is, if I like projects, if it seems like fun, if its going to be win-win for everybody involved from a business standpoint, I’m open to a lot of things – and that would be on my list of something I’d be interested in doing if it was a good business decision and a good arrangement for both parties. I certainly would listen to what they had to say.

It would be like an adventure. It’s like one of those deals where you might say, ‘I can take my wife with me on this one. We may stay a week.’ That kind of deal. Why not, you can make a little pay day, you fly your wife over, you enjoy the sights, you get the opportunity to do some things we haven’t had time for. You do 51 weeks of live TV a year for a quarter century; you don’t have a lot of free time. I worked 21 years for WWE without a vacation and took a vacation maybe once. So I didn’t take a lot of time off and I had a lot of responsibility.

I wouldn’t change a bit of it, I loved every minute of it. But I did make sacrifices that were family-oriented and I can’t get back that time. When you’re 62, that’s one thing that you really start putting a value on, your time. So, I’m going to maximize whatever the good lord blesses me with and enjoy every day and make sure that whatever I do, I’m having fun doing it.”

Editor’s Note:
Sure would get more people talking about GFW, eh? I’d love to hear JR doing commentary for wrestling again. Period.