10 Times Wrestlers Called Out Their Own BS

2. Jim Ross

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With these old guys, a non-apology sort of has to count. It's the only one you're gonna get.

Jim Ross has improved considerably at the booth following All Out, at which he shrugged at the big Falcon Arrow kick-out spot in the Hikaru Shida Vs. Thunder Rosa AEW Women's Title match. It was inserted into the match to protect the NWA Women's Champion as an appreciative nod gestured towards Billy Corgan. Ross called the spot like it was an arm drag, constitutionally unable to receive it as a moment of drama because it was the jezebel quarter hour.

Worse still was his dirty awld man behaviour concerning the very, very young Anna Jay. "Did she just suffer a wardrobe malfunction," Ross asked, "or was that just wishful thinking on my part?"

Yikes.

He was crucified on Twitter for removing the gummy Venus de Milo from Jay's a*se cheek, and he promptly apologised with, one presumes, a big gun pointed at the back of his cowboy hat.

"Weak attempt at humour," he tweeted in the aftermath. "Sorry. Now lighten up."

Ross essentially said "Sorry," and then, under his breath, "I said she had a great ass, what's the damn problem, it was a compliment".

But again: it's the only one you're gonna get.

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