Over this legendary career, Jim Ross has seen a lot in the professional wrestling industry. He’s been in NWA, WCW, WWE, and now finds himself in AEW – and has noticed many similarities between many of the companies. Lately, he’s noticed an uptick in colourful language in AEW, and feels that’s not something that shows much creativity in the performer delivering the line.
Jim Ross Speaks On “Controversial Language” In AEW
While doing a Q&A session on AdFreeShows, Jim Ross would be asked about the language used back in WWE during the attitude era – and how it pops up in AEW these days.
As long as the storylines and character development are based in some degree of logic, you have to position talent, to some degree, that he or she can best identify with the audience. It sounds simplistic, it really is, quite frankly. I thought WWE, at one point, I was there and part of it, tried too hard to become PG and appease all the advertisers. I think you just have to use common sense. We had a string in AEW where there was a lot of controversial language. I think you’ll see less of that. It’s unnecessary and shows a lack of creativity if you can’t come up with an adjective or adverb that is better than something a little coarse.
The times are going to dictate that. The old time slot, we would raise the sensationalism in the second hour of Raw, you could be a little more risky and rougher. It’s all case-by-case, there is no rule, we all just have to use common sense and logic. I’m guilty as anybody. I remember one time, I said, ‘WWE Dynamite.‘ That didn’t make me real popular with some, which is amazing because it’s called human error. That’s it, I made a mistake, I was sorry about it. I haven’t done it since, knock on wood,”
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