Jim Ross wants to work.
AEW's pay-per-view schedule continues to grow, as the company added the Dynasty event to the lineup in 2024. This meant that AEW would have a pay-per-view in March, April, May, and June, starting with AEW Revolution. Ross worked the AEW Revolution pay-per-view after signing a new contract with the company. He also was part of the broadcast team at AEW Dynasty.
Speaking on his Grilling JR podcast, Jim Ross was asked whether he liked the monthly pay-per-view schedule AEW has had recently.
"Yeah, I do because it gives you ample time, if you think about it, and you put your creative hats on, from a talent standpoint and an administration standpoint, it’s a good thing. It gives you time to build. It gives you a month, and in today’s world, a month is an eternity, in today’s quick-process mindset that we are seemingly all in. So I like it. For me, that’s my schedule. Tony Khan hired me back to do pay-per-views, so once a month is great for me personally, and I hope that somewhere along the way there’s another assignment for two thrown in there at times, either on Dynamite or Collision," Ross said.
Ross was then asked whether he thinks he’ll exclusively work pay-per-views, with some occasional exceptions. Ross stated that he thought so, but he liked the idea of potentially working the go-home edition of Collision before pay-per-views.
"Yeah, pretty much. I think pay-per-views is what Tony had slotted me to come in and contribute to. They’re gonna be once a month, and that’s when I’ll be there. But I would not be surprised if somewhere down the road, I suggested this to him, maybe me doing a Collision on the go-home show, the last Collision before the pay-per-view, I think that might be a thought. But you know how us old carny types are, we’re just always trying to get ourselves booked. So there’s that. I enjoy working. When you get to be 72 years old, and you’ve had a 50-year career, you really appreciate working. It’s just part of my DNA. I have miserable weeks the weeks of the pay-per-views because I am so looking forward to them that the time doesn’t pass fast enough," Ross said.
Ross previously said that it was realistic to say that 2024 would be his last year as an announcer. Check out his comments here.
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