{"id":6937,"date":"2020-12-03T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:49:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:49:28","slug":"why-wwe-likely-brought-jr-back-details-on-his-upcoming-work-with-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=6937","title":{"rendered":"Why WWE Likely Brought JR Back; Details on His Upcoming Work with WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The backstage news on why WWE brought Ross back after pretty much firing him back in 2013 is because they didn&#8217;t want his &#8220;familiar voice&#8221; as the lead announcer for the upcoming ITV wrestling show.  While the ITV show could end up being a gigantic success or a huge failure, ultimately WWE offered JR two years while ITV could only guarantee ten weeks.\n<\/p>\n<li>At this time, the plan is for Ross not to be involved in any regular weekly announcing team but that could change if Mauro Ranallo does not return.   If Ranallo does not come back, Smackdown will move ahead with Tom Phillips, JBL and David Otunga with Phillips doubling up along with Corey Graves on 205 Live.  There are a lot of possibilities for JR, including the new UK show as well as possibly the pre\/post show or the talk shows on the WWE Network.\n<p>Source: Wrestling Observer Newsletter.  Subscription information &amp; prices available at f4wonline.com\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On a related note, JR revealed additional details into his role with WWE in a recent interview.  He said:<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>\u201cI think I\u2019m going to do 30-40 dates in my first 12 months of my deal. Those dates are to be determined. There\u2019s nothing they can assign me that I haven\u2019t done before. How many wrestling matches you think I\u2019ve called in my lifetime\u2014100,000? If they want me to do U.K. or NXT or Main Event, I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s all good to me. My days of being the lead guy, the No. 1 voice\u2014all that is way yesterday. Guys who\u2019ve had those issues like I have had in my career, they have self-esteem and confidence issues. I have both those. Totally happy to admit it, but I ain\u2019t got them no more. I\u2019m 65 years old. I feel great, I just lost my wife, I\u2019m trying to get back on my feet here, and I\u2019ve said this and I truly mean it: I\u2019m happy to get my jersey back. I\u2019m happy to re-sign with my old team. Whatever role I need to play, I\u2019m fine with.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backstage news on why WWE brought Ross back after pretty much firing him back in 2013 is because they didn&#8217;t want his &#8220;familiar voice&#8221; as the lead announcer for the upcoming ITV wrestling show. While the ITV show could end up being a gigantic success or a huge failure, ultimately WWE offered JR two&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}