WWE Legend Takes Blame For Jesse Ventura Issues

A WWE Hall of Famer has looked back on their once-strained relationship with Jesse Ventura.

Although it was with WWE that he made himself a legend, Jim Ross couldn’t have been less like a WWE announcer when he arrived in the company in 1993.

Ross wore his Oklahoma roots as a badge of honor, and he’d spent almost two decades working with Mid-South Wrestling and later Jim Crockett Promotions/WCW in a variety of roles.

But despite these teething problems and multiple removals from television down the years, Ross called many of the biggest moments in WWE history and came to be regarded as one of the greatest wrestling commentators in history.

Jim Ross Was Jealous Of Jesse Ventura

During an episode of his Grilling JR podcast, Ross looked back at his early years with WWE and how he came to be Vince McMahon’s right-hand man. During the conversation, JR admitted he didn’t like his fellow Hall of Famer Jesse Ventura when they first worked together mainly out of jealousy for how much he was being paid and used on television.

However, Ross said he’s apologised to Ventura since, and there aren’t any more issues between them.

“In the beginning when I worked with Ventura, I didn’t like Ventura. I was jealous of him making a lot more money than me, maybe double, and working part-time. So then over the years, we’ve settled that. I’ve apologized to Jesse, he’s accepted that apology. And it was my fault. I was just jealous, and I’m embarrassed to say that here on the air but I felt like we should — our pace should be closer together, I guess. But it was just jealousy on my end. Jealousy is a bad thing, man.”

Jesse Ventura made his most recent WWE appearance at Saturday Night’s Main Event in San Antonio, Texas on January 25th. After spending years away from the company, the veteran signed a Legends deal in 2024.

H/t to 411Mania