YMMV / Jim Ross

• Americans Hate Tingle: One of the most beloved wrestling announcers of all time, he was absolutely hated by football fans during his time commentating Vince McMahon's short-lived first iteration of the XFL.
• Broken Base: His tenure as a commentator for AEW is extremely contentious, since he has trouble remembering many competitors' names and gets audibly frustrated when he sees flagrant violations of the rules. (AEW's tag division in particular was notoriously, ahem, loose about the rules, especially the Lucha Bros. and especially early on.) Some fans feel he's making extremely legitimate criticisms of a product that's catering to jaded and snobbish indie fans at the expense of the "real sport presentation" they were sold, and that his trouble with names speaks to the promotion's difficulty in presenting and introducing many of its characters, and others complain that it's "proof" he's a past-his-prime fossil who has no business being behind a modern commentary booth and his burying the product he's watching is grossly unprofessional.
• Catharsis Factor: After Vince McMahon humiliated Ross by forcing Ross to kiss his ass, it was incredibly cathartic both for the audience and for JR in Kayfabe to watch the Rock humiliate Vince by forcing him to kiss Rikishi's 400-pound behind.
• Designated Monkey: With his status as a fan-favorite, a legendary commentator, and almost permanent babyface, plus being an unimposing non-wrestler, JR was one of WWE's biggest go-to targets for heels to gain heat by abusing, to the point that when John Laurinaitis fired him on-screen in 2011, fans saw it as outright cliche.
• Franchise Original Sin: Jim Ross has always been one to speak his mind when it comes to wrestling psychology he's having trouble following, and has stumbled over names relatively frequently in his career, even with wrestlers he likes and is friends with. But, in AEW, where much less of a premium is placed on the former, sometimes to the point that the rules are openly ignored, he's often accused of actively burying the product, since he complains more often, and the latter comes up a lot because many of the company's wrestlers are indie darlings that neither he nor the audience are very familiar with. (Also, he's getting older.)
• Hilarious in Hindsight: When Oklahoma parodied J.R. in WCW, he started sporting a beard after a couple of weeks. In the 2010s, J.R. himself sports a beard.
• Iron Woobie: For all of the misfortunes Ross has suffered throughout his career, both on- and off-camera, it's amazing how much he's persevered. It's to the point where he just doesn't care. One example was during his brief comeback in 2011 on the RAW after the HHH walkout/duty-relieving, they didn't tell JR that John Laurinaitis would relieve him of his announcing gig in the ring. When new GM Johnny Ace told JR to meet him in the ring, he knew what was coming, and after being told that he was indeed being fired, JR quickly tipped his hat and hurried out the ring and to the back, making sure his umpteenth Humiliation Conga was as quick as possible.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The way he once shilled Skittles: "FRUITY! DELICIOUS! DELICIOUS! FRUITY! FRUITY! BAH GAWD THEY'RE FRUITY! SKITTLES!"
  • Pretty much anything "BAH GAWD [x]" has gotten a lot of mileage.
  • [Wrestler].....has picked up.....TWISTY ROCKETS!
  • He's pretty much tied with The Angry Video Game Nerd for the person most famous for saying the word "ass" frequently.
  • It's not uncommon to overdub Jim Ross' infamous reactions such as the one to Undertaker chucking Mankind off the cell to over-the-top violent moments in film and TV. For example.
  • "BOOM BOOM! MY ASS!"
  • Supercuts of JR yelling at Triple H for whatever heel thing he was doing at the moment have cropped up.
  • "Sit your ass down. Go to sleep." ^ExplanationFootage of JR discussing telling a drunk Dustin Runnels to leave his ex-wife Terri alone on the "Plane Ride from Hell" episode of Dark Side of the Ring. Slowly starting to become to go to clips to use as a reaction to a wrestler acting drunk/out of control.
• Replacement Scrappy:
  • Anyone who replaces Ross on the commentators' table is bound to get such a reaction. Joey Styles is the only exception as he could be argued to be just as good as Ross (and he still got some backlash for not being JR, though some fans thought he might be better) - but he only lasted four months on the Raw announce team before JR was brought back. Ironically, WWE wanted Styles to abandon his ..style to be more like JR. When that didn't pan out, they brought JR back. Again.
  • Jim Ross's "Diesel" and "Razor Ramon" were replacement scrappies to the originals.
• Sacred Cow: For a long time, saying anything even remotely negative about him to a fan or someone in the business was an invitation to be torn to shreds. Unfortunately, his polarizing run as announcer for All Elite Wrestling has diluted this a great deal.
• Signature Scene: His performance during the Hell in a Cell match between Mankind and the Undertaker is undoubtedly his most memorable as he spends much of the match just loudly flabbergasted that anyone is allowing it to continue and being in utter disbelief that Mankind is still going after so many horrendous bumps. His incredulous horror at everything happening helped set the tone for what was happening and elevated the match into the timeless classic it’s revered as today.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: In September 1996, Ross announced that Razor Ramon and Diesel were coming back. This was during the early red-hot stage of the NWO angle in WCW, which had Scott Hall (formerly Razor Ramon) and Kevin Nash (formerly Diesel), along with "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, as the leaders. On the September 23, 1996, Raw, Ross cut a promo where he broke kayfabe by acknowledging Vince McMahon as the owner of the company and ripped WWE for sticking him in a toga upon his debut at WrestleMania IX, making him wear a cowboy hat and firing him after he first contracted Bell's Palsy. He said that had "no loyalty to the World Wrestling Federation! I've only got loyalty to good ol' J.R." He said that he was going to "bring back one of your favorites. He's the Bad Guy, Razor Ramon …" Then, Canadian wrestler Rick Bogner, best known to that point for his work in FMW as Big Titan, walked out doing a BAD Razor impression, to huge boos. He would be followed by Glen Jacobs as "Diesel." Even though this was supposed to have been a heel turn, the crowd was loudly behind JR...until the Fake Razor came out, thus undoing everything Ross had accomplished to that point.
• The Woobie: J.R. has received a lot of abuse at the hands of many heels during his entire WWE career. He needs a big hug for a remaining such a respected commentator.

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