AEW commentator Jim Ross took to his podcast, “Grilling JR,” to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
The talent of John Morrison and Dolph Ziggler, who faced each other in 2009 at HIAC:
I love both those guys. I really do. If I had a territory, if I was Tony Khan or Vince McMahon, I would be happy to have either of them and both — preferably both guys, Morrison and Ziggler, on my roster.
Dolph Ziggler being the victim of hideous booking in WWE:
I cannot begin to tell you or outline the hideous booking that Dolph Ziggler has encountered over his career in WWE. If you go back and look at it with any diligence, the chronological accuracy of his career in WWE, you will begin to shake your head, and you will say as I have, ‘How is he still even remotely relevant?’ The only answer to that is the fact is that Dolph Ziggler is a supreme athlete.
And if given the opportunity to become the star that his ability said he could, we’d be talking about him in the same sacred tones we talk about a Shawn Michaels. Athletically, charismatic, but he was never was given the oomph from the company to put him over the top to where, loo, we’re not going to do this for you for now, we’re going to do this for you forever.
Talents needing to know they will be seen as “the guy”:
Talents need to know, ‘As far as we’re concerned, you’re our guy. The only thing that’s going to screw this up of you being our guy is you.’ So — and Ziggler was the guy. And it’s just a shame that he has not been booked better than he has. But I would say as an AEW guy, any time that I can see a [John] Morrison/Ziggler program that made sense over multiple weeks of episodic television, count me in.
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H/T 411 Mania for the transcriptions
