Taz welcomes Jim Ross to the show.
Taz jokes about his inability to sell his opponents offence during his in-ring career. He says he tried very hard to sell for his opponents but he was just terrible at it. He recalls Joey Styles approaching him at one point when he was working as a babyface, saying that he couldn’t get sympathy for him from an announcing perspective because his selling was so bad.
Ross informs that his book, Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling, is now in it’s 4th printing and he’s very proud of the success it has had thus far. He almost didn’t finish writing it after his wife died but he remembered his Father telling him at a young age that quitting is the easiest thing in the world to do, so he finished it and he’s glad he did.
Ross mentions that he’s working a busy schedule as of late, with dates booked for NJPW, WWE, as well as his own one-man shows. In 2018 he will be doing a string of two-man shows with jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, which he’s really looking forward to. He says that he likes being out of the house and working, and Taz credits his constant work ethic which was really respected by the boys in WWE’s locker room back in the day.
Ross mentions that he thinks the boys approved of him as a Talent Relations Manager back in the day because he treated them like men, and not just like employees that he could boss around.
