Jim Ross: AEW Has "Too Many Flips And Flops"
"That type of wrestling is not new and fresh anymore."
It might surprise precisely no-one to learn that AEW's veteran commentator, Jim Ross, is an old school son of a gun with a penchant for a southern style of 'rasslin. For the legendary Oklahoman, it's not the number of rotations that make a good wrestling match, and he had no qualms over telling Conrad Thompson that on the latest episode of Grilling JR - even if it undermined his new employers:
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Somebody said, "Well, why are you at AEW?" Because they pay me a lot of money, and I like the people I work for, and I love wrestling and love helping these young kids. Are they doing too many flips and flops for my taste? Yeah, they are to be honest with you, they sure are.
What Ross has failed to consider is that these 'flips and flops' tend to get over. Nevertheless, he reckoned they'd soon be consigned to the past:
They're weaning themselves off that a little bit because that type of wrestling is not new and fresh anymore. How many times have you seen a 450? A 620? Blah blah blah... now it's not new anymore. It's not new! So we gotta figure out something else that's going to get the people's attention.
What does he have in mind? Dripping with irony, he suggested:
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It might be a wrestling match! It might be using psychology and grabbing them by the emotional balls and pulling them right along with a story.
It might be having a lead announcer more in tune with the present day product? Who knows?