10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Jim Ross

10. He Had Heat With Management For Calling The Undertaker "Booger Red"

Remember when Ross would call The Undertaker "Booger Red" as a nickname? It wasn't something that WWE pushed very hard during his years a biker from 2000 to 2003, but Ross used it from time to time. Apparently it was just a JR thing that wasn't approved by management. Here's how Ross explained where the name came from: "What's Booger Red? A nickname that I unsuccessfully hung on the American Bad Ass Character, as I recall, IE the Undertaker. Booger Red was the nickname of another red headed, bad ass from Texas, former UT linebacker and hall of famer Tommy Nobis. If you look up 'Booger' in the dictionary, it is a southern expression meaning a frightening apparition of which Undertaker certainly is. Plus, he is naturally red headed. I thought the name worked but others didn't." In another explanation of the term, Ross said he was informed that the "home office" (aka WWE management) told him to stop using the term. Vince McMahon has always been protective of The Undertaker. If he didn't like the name then it was not going to be used on television. This also goes back to the popular belief that people within WWE, namely Executive Producer Kevin Dunn, never liked the fact that Ross would use southern expressions like that. It might have sounded like a good name to Ross, but not to his bosses.