On Wednesday (Jan. 7), D-Von Dudley uploaded a new video to his YouTube channel. In it, he detailed two incidents in which he says Jim Ross made racist comments to him in their past dealings at WWE.
Ross,
who returned to the AEW announce desk for Wednesday night’s Dynamite after missing the last several months with his latest round of health issues, previously denied the allegations when Dudley made them in a more general way last year. On the newest episode of his Grilling JR podcast, Ross responded to D-Von’s latest video with another denial:
“How many times do I gotta address it to satisfy everybody? I am not a racist. I have never been a racist. Ask some of the African-American athletes that I’ve been around and worked with in my 50-year career. They’ll say the same thing, and like I said before, when you and I first talked about this, I don’t remember the first cross word I had with D-Von.
“The boisterous one was Bubba [Ray Dudley, D-Von’s long-time tag partner]. But not in a bad way. He just had no problem expressing himself, and Bubba had a lot of ideas. He was a throwback. A main event guy that wanted to be involved into booking his angle, and I loved that. If more guys would do that — and today, they just wait for someone to tell ‘em what they’re gonna do tonight, and that’s the wrong approach in my opinion.
”But, I’d have no problem reconnecting with D-Von… I’ve never gotten mad at him. I was bewildered about how this could happen. Because like I said, I don’t remember any negative exchanges with him, and what I allegedly said would damn sure be negative!“
Ross’ podcasting partner Conrad Thompson asked if JR would be willing to do a show with D-Von to hash things out, and the legendary announcer said he didn’t want to do anything to monetize the issue:
“I’m not. I’m not interested in that. I am interested in reconnecting with D-Von, because I like D-Von.”
You can check out the entire episode of Grilling Jr these quotes are taken from below.
