Sound Off 428 - INTERVIEW WITH WWE HALL OF FAMER JIM ROSS!

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🗓️ 4 March 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Solomonster welcomes legendary announcer and WWE Hall of Famer JIM ROSS to the Sound Off! He's here to discuss his return to the booth for New Japan Pro Wrestling on AXS TV, WWE's hiring of Mauro Ranallo and wanting him to be involved at Wrestlemania, why we have yet to see a Japanese star break through in a major American promotion, WCW missing out on a massive babyface run with The Great Muta and one booking committee member's rationale why he would never get over, Nakamura signing with WWE and where he hopes to see him a year from now, why Roman Reigns needs to be a heel and pitching a double turn at Wrestlemania, and thoughts on the Fabulous Freebirds entering the Hall of Fame.

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0:00.0	Sala monster back with you on the sound off and on the line in my opinion is the
0:15.8	greatest professional wrestling announcer of all time he is a w w w w w w w hall of
0:20.1	famer and he makes his debut as the new play-by-play voice for New Japan
0:24.4	pro wrestling on access television this Friday March 4th and 9 p.m. Eastern good old
0:30.1	J.R. Jim Ross is with us. Jim welcome.
0:32.1	Well thanks Jason good to be with you.
0:34.0	Now, as a fan of your work, I was very excited when I heard that you were coming back to the
0:38.7	broadcast booth on a weekly basis. How did the whole deal with Access come about?
0:43.0	Well, I guess somewhere in November, as best I understand that Morrow Ronello told Access that he was negotiating
0:50.4	with WWE and it looked like he was going to go there and what he did and so they immediately
0:56.0	called my business manager Barry Bloom in Los Angeles and wanted to know if I would be interested
1:02.3	in doing it Friday night show.
1:06.2	So Barry calls me and, hey, you don't want to do the Friday night show and access.
1:10.6	I said, what about Morrow?
1:11.8	They said, well, Morrow's, I didn't want to do it at Morrow's expense, for God's sake.
1:16.0	So I, uh, he said, well, Morrow's going to WWE, so I didn't know that.
1:21.0	So, good for him. So Barry starting negotiating with access and by
1:29.2	oh heck you know first the year we had we had a deal and it worked out great you know the travel is manageable
1:36.6	the job is is uh... i love the product
1:41.0	i really like working with j Barnett. He's perfect analyst for this product.
1:47.0	And I like the fact that Mark Cuban has a lot of money. So it worked out good for everybody.
1:52.0	We all won.
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