Jim Ross Calls Roman Reigns' WWE Suspension "Embarrassing For The Talent," Talks Working With Reigns
WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross appeared on Submission Radio. During the interview, JR discussed Roman Reigns' 30-day WWE suspension for his first violation of the company's Wellness Policy.
"Well, it's embarrassing for the talent," JR said. "I have no idea what substance that he ? you wanna hope invariantly ? was taking. There's a lot of the wrestlers, men and women, that are really big into the supplements out of the health food stores, and if they're not careful and they don't really vet it and see what's on those ingredients, they can be inadvertently taking something that's against the wellness program. So I'm assuming that's what he did.
"He's a hell of a good kid. I had a lot of fun when he was in developmental, when I was still working in WWE, helping him and talking with him, kind of mentoring him a little bit, like a lot of guys did ? cause you wanted to mentor him cause he listened and he put what you told him into practice. So I was disappointed in him. And he's gotta pay more attention if that's what the case was. And hopefully he'll learn a great lesson out of these thirty days he's sitting. And hopefully he won't be sitting, he'll be getting better. And I sent out a tweet @JRsBBQ recently that said, "the game's not over, it's an inadvertent timeout". So now you gotta come back better than you left and make up for lost time.
"So I don't know that it hurt WWE. You have to re-arrange creative. I'm sure that he'll come back. I would put him back in a triple threat match at Payback. You don't want to discount the other guys' efforts creatively and what they've built to get to this triple threat match. It costs the other two guys as much as it cost Reigns if you don't have him in the match. And so I don't know who wins in that equation. The fans don't win. So I think the triple match should be booked and held. But he's gotta be smarter in what he takes. The company has invested lots of money, the talent has invested lots of their time and efforts into helping him, and he's gotta just be smarter than he was. And like I said, I just want to believe that it was totally inadvertent and that it will not happen again."