Legendary announcer Jim Ross has given the fans an update on his health following his recent diagnosis.
Update: Following the surgery, Ross’ podcast co-host COnrad Thompson provided the following update:
“Just heard from [Rafael Morffi] that JR’s surgery went well and they hope to have successfully removed all of his cancer this morning!,” Thompson wrote. “Please keep @JRsBBQ in your thoughts and prayers as he begins his recovery!”
Earlier in the month, JR revealed on social media that he had been diagnosed with colon cancer and would be undergoing surgery soon:
“Diagnosed this week with colon cancer. Surgery being scheduled in the next week or two,” Ross tweeted. “I appreciate your concern and support.”
On May 26th, Ross appeared on his Grilling JR podcast to provide more information on the diagnosis and the upcoming surgery. The Hall of Famer confirmed that is surgery is scheduled to take place on May 27th and that the cancer has been located in 2 places:
Ross: “Getting ready for surgery and that’s always stressful. But, I’ve prepared myself mentally and physically to endure the situation.
I got cancer and I’ll think of it in a minute. Isn’t that something? I have separated myself from the specifics of this situation, a lot, and I don’t mean to do it. It just happens… I have — I’m trying to think of that. Cancer of the what? I can’t remember what I got. I got ‘em in two places and they’re gonna take ‘em out today. I believe today.”
Thompson: “Surgery is tomorrow at 6 AM, right Jim?”
Ross: “Yup.”
Ross also added that he expects to be in the hospital for 6 days and that he is not in any pain.
Jim Ross Has No Plans To Retire
Later in the podcast, Ross spoke about his plans professionally moving forward. Currently signed to AEW, JR has mostly appeared at pay-per-views to call the final couple of matches on the show, but was not present for Double or Nothing over the past weekend. In terms of what’s next for him after the surgery, Ross added that he does not intend to stop announcing:
“This is crazy, on the eve of hours before my surgery, but it’s crazy to say I don’t plan on retiring. I plan on getting healthy, getting well, and coming back and doing something for somebody, and we’ll see how that works out.”
“I’m learning a lot about things. I’m learning a lot about my body and about what it has and it’s like an old car… I’m trying to still drive it and run it and that’s maybe one of my issues is the old car has run too long, too hard. So I’m thinking I really slow down after the surgery. Talk to the doctor… I’ll try to really slow down when this is over. Make a few autograph appearances, which I love to do, and see what Tony Khan’s got ready for me for AEW.
The next pay-per-view on the AEW calendar will be All In on July 12th, which is also the promotion’s biggest show of the year. When asked about All In, Ross was optimistic that he could make it to the Texas show:
“Hell yeah, I think so (I could be at All In Texas). Why not? Why not? The convalescent — time to recover is not long. There’s soreness and things like that that affect it… But I think I’ll be up and able to go in a couple of weeks.”
Ross also added that he had spoken to AEW President Tony Khan and was very complimentary over how the Khan family has looked after him:
“Tony Khan called me which was nice. You know, Khan family has done an amazing job of taking care of J.R. since I signed with their company. He’s very talent-friendly. Maybe too friendly at times.”
Features of Wrestling sends best wishes to Jim Ross at this time.
H/t to Fightful.
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