This WWE Legend Says It’s a Great Time to Be a Wrestling Fan. Do You?

The man in the black hat is right. With “Wrestlemania XXXIII” less than two months away, a lot of wrestling personalities are coming out of the woodwork with appearances and interviews about a host of wrestling topics. In this case, Jim Ross has done an interview with the Orlando Sentinel newspaper promoting his one man show in Orlando over Wrestlemania weekend.

In the interview, Ross talks about several things, including his thoughts on the future of the business and its current popularity. With the rise of the internet as a way to run shows and the WWE Network, Ross sees it as a great time to be a fan given how many ways there are to see wrestling.

“It’s a great time to be a wrestling fan. There’s a lot of content for people to enjoy of all different types. An example is my overseas work. The U.K. is a great marketplace…the [World of Sport] special I just did for ITV, if anything comes from that, it could be the show with the biggest potential audience of anything I ever worked on. Think about that. It’s the power of a terrestrial network in a big market, plus the power of the Internet. There are opportunities out there, is my point. It’s a great time to be in the business and a great time to be a fan.

“As ubiquitous as WWE is, and they’re the big dogs, but they’re not the only dogs. The others are not in WWE’s yard, but there’s room for others. People want variety. WWE has the [streaming] network, which scratches a lot of people’s itches, but they still want diversity.”

You can read the full interview on the Sentinel’s website here.

As usual, Ross is right about a lot of things. There really are more outlets to watch wrestling than there ever has been before with the WWE Network being an amazing resources. It’s not alone though as there is also a great amount of non-WWE talent available for free and in a legitimate way online.

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