Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond By Jim Ross

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From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross, this candid, colorful memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises he weathered at the height of his career is “a must-read for wrestling fans” (Charleston Post Courier).If you’ve caught a televised wrestling match anytime in the past thirty years, you’ve probably heard Jim Ross’s throaty Oklahoma twang. The beloved longtime announcer of the WWE “has been a driving force behind a generation of wrestling fans” (Mark Cuban), and he’s not slowing down, having signed on as the announcer of the starry new wrestling venture All Elite Wrestling. In this follow-up to his bestselling memoir Slobberknocker, he dishes out about not only his long career, which includes nurturing global stars like Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and John Cena, but also about his challenges of aging and disability, his split from collaborator Vince McMahon, and the sudden death of his beloved wife, Jan. The result is a gruff, endearing, and remarkably human-scale portrait, set against the larger than life backdrop of professional wrestling. Ross’s ascent in WWE mirrors the rise of professional wrestling itself from a DIY sideshow to a billion-dollar business. Under the Black Hat traces all the highs and lows of that wild ride, in which Jim served not only as on-air commentator, but talent manager, payroll master, and even occasional in-ring foil to threats like Paul “Triple H” Levesque and Undertaker. While his role brought him riches and exposure he had never dreamed of, he chafed against the strictures of a fickle corporate culture and what he saw as a narrow vision of what makes great wrestlers—and great story lines. When suddenly stricken with Bell’s palsy, a form of facial paralysis that makes it impossible to smile, he started down his greatest fear—being cast out of the announcing booth for good. Picking up where Slobberknocker left off and ending on the cusp of a new career in a reimagined industry, Under the Black Hat is the triumphant tale of a country boy who made it to the top, took a few knocks, and stuck around—just where his fans like him. Not only being one of the greatest wrestlers of the WWE, Ross is also “a master storyteller, and this book is the perfect forum for his forty years’ worth of tales” (Chris Jericho, former WWE champion).

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This book is a fairly quick, standard read. My three main criticisms:1) JR tries to paint minor inconveniences as huge dramatic trials and tribulations with insurmountable challenges that needed to be desperately overcome. In Bret Hart's book, such challenges involved divorce, the death of both his parents, the tragedy of his brother Owen's death, his own near death experience, having coming back from a stroke and paralysis after a horrific accident, the double loss of his career (WWE and then WCW) and many more serious problems.JR's challenges, however, involve him being moved from Raw to Smackdown, and having to participate in a dumb wrestling angle or two over the years. Hell, for the money and the lifestyle afforded to Ross by WWE, most of us would probably take a couple of snug punches from Triple H once every 2-3 years too. These whines don't do Ross any favors, as he doesn't come off so much as a victim worthy of empathy, but more of an entitled old man who takes himself a little too seriously and gets his panties in a twist at having to move from one highly paid prime time TV gig to another. Perhaps that's why McMahon liked messing with him so much in the first place.For a guy who repeatedly reminds us in the book that he's the "strong silent" type and a "gruff old man" worthy of John Wayne, he sure does roll around in a pool of self-pitying angst like a 12 year old school girl.Furthermore, the fact that these minor inconveniences always ended with some over-sentimental interaction with his wife Jan gets very tedious after the first 7-8 instances, which brings me to my next issue with this book:2) The formulaic writing. I'm about 2/3 of the way through the book right now and it is extremely repetitive:- Everything is going well for Ross.- WWE suddenly throws him a challenge - removing him from Talent Relations, moving him to another show, asking him to participate in angle.- Ross has an existential crisis in which he questions his self worth, his dignity, and his mental health before going through with it.- Ross comes back through the curtain and calls his wife Jan, who offers a few words of comfort to JR and makes everything right in the world again.- RINSE AND REPEAT for 10+ chapters.The writing is extremely lazy. Entire transcripts of Ross's calls on commentary are included verbatim. While they sound incredible when spoken live during an intense TV broadcast, reading said words on the page is a very different, and somewhat dull, experience. Entire sections of JR's old WWE.com blogs are also quoted, when really a sentence or two could've sufficed. It seems like very poor form by the co-author, Paul O'Brien, and a way to pad out the book.3) As the Head of Talent Relations for WWE, Jim Ross really should have far more fascinating stories than what is presented in this book. Nobody is saying there has to be dirty laundry and gossip, but some interesting insights sure would've been appreciated. For example, Ross was in the WWE during the time of Donald Trump's "Battle of the Billionaires" feud with Vince McMahon. You'd think that there would be tons of great backstage anecdotes about the current President of the United States stepping into the wild and crazy world of WWE, and yet other than a couple of paragraphs, there's nothing of any merit.And that's the problem - Ross worked alongside all the greats - Rock, Austin, Undertaker, Triple H, John Cena, etc. And yet we come away from this book learning absolutely nothing new about any of them. Not even a funny story or a memory about an interaction with any of these guys. Even when Ross does touch on certain things, such as Austin being hospitalized prior to Wrestlemania 19, things are very basic and empty - we learn nothing new and the details are thin.Again, I'm not asking for salacious details into people's private lives, but at the same time we're reading these books to learn about Jim Ross, his life in the world of the WWE, and his interactions with the people along the way. But the juicy details are few and far between.For me, the Holy Trinity of wrestling books remain the first books written by Bret Hart ("Hitman"), Chris Jericho ("A Lion's Tale") and Mick Foley ("Have A Nice Day"). This one sadly fell short of the mark for me, and I think a much more creative co-author could've gotten a much more entertaining story out of JR. Definitely not a slobberknocker.

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