Jim Ross Not Expected To Take Time Off From AEW Following Skin Cancer Diagnosis
The 69-year-old will soon undergo 22 rounds of radiation treatment on consecutive days.
Veteran wrestling announcer Jim Ross has announced that he will soon undergo 22 rounds of radiation treatment following his skin cancer diagnosis, but probably won't be taking time off from AEW television.
Ross, who currently sits in the AEW Dynamite booth alongside Excalibur and Tony Schiavone on Wednesday nights, shared the news on his latest Grillin' JR podcast. Revealing that he'd have to undergo the treatments on consecutive days, the 69-year-old said he was figuring out how to make it work (h/t WrestlingNews.co):-
“I’m pretty good. I have this little cancer issue I’m trying to deal with. I’m going to start doing radiation soon. I have to do 22 radiation treatments. Somehow I have to figure out how to do it on consecutive days. They would like to do it every day for I think 3 weeks, or whatever it is, maybe longer than that. I haven’t kept track. It’s inevitable. It’s coming. I have to deal with it. I haven’t found myself buried in the minutia of whether this is happening or that is happening."
JR had revealed his skin cancer diagnosis via Twitter on 23 October. He has fought the disease before, with his first diagnosis taking place in 2016. Further surgery then took place in 2018 in order to remove the last of the cancer from his shoulder.
Continuing, Ross said that his doctors had advised him he doesn't necessarily have to miss any work:-
“I don’t plan on missing any work according to my doctors, so that’s good. It’s just a matter of dealing with the issues, gritting your teeth, and moving on. That’s kind of what I’m doing. I really appreciate all the fans who have reached out on social media and so forth giving me their encouragement, prayers and so forth. I didn’t get the worst kind of skin cancer. Whatever that is, I don’t have. It’s one of those deals. It’s part of the journey. I have to deal with it and I will deal with it. No doubt about it. It’s just a pain in the a*s to get all these treatments."
Chemotherapy won't be part of his treatment either:-
“The good thing is there’s no chemotherapy, so that helps with all the after effects and things of that nature. I’m handling it. I’m dealing with it. I’ve dealt with more and will continue to persevere.”
All the best to one of the greatest pro wrestling announcers of all time in his recovery.