During a recent interview with “The Roman Show”, Jim Ross revealed that he never joined TNA because they wouldn’t grant him full creative control over the roster. Here’s what he had to say:
I had a meeting with Dixie Carter and her family, had a great time interacting with her father Bob, they flew me from here in Norman down to their ranch in North Texas, that was on Easter weekend, by the way, several years ago.
They weren’t ready to make the change that I felt like I needed to have to be comfortable. If I was going to report to anybody, it was going to be to one person and that would be to Dixie. But I had to have control over the talent roster and the talent pay and I needed, like Bill Parcels said one time, if you expect me to cook the meals, you gotta let me buy some of the groceries, and I needed to buy the groceries. And Bob Carter understood that and I think probably would have gone for it because it was a logical idea, I said I need this autonomy to rebuild your brand, to make you some money, and guess what, if I don’t do what I’m telling you I’m going to do, you can fire my ass.
Credit: The Roman Show. H/T 411Mania.