Jim Ross on when his AEW contract expires and his future plans

By Jason Powell, ProWrestling.net Editor (@prowrestlingnet)

DAZN interview with Jim Ross
Interviewer: Steven Muehlhausen
Available at DAZN.com

DAZN: How much longer do you want to do everything? Like you said earlier, you’re 69, and the fire still burns every single day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. But do you see a light at the end of the tunnel?

JR: I do. You have to. Like, yeah, I’m not John Wayne where I can take an arrow by the stick and pull it out of my own arm or something. We all got a shelf life. I started my third year with AEW recently. I don’t really pay a lot of attention to that stuff. You’re having fun. You’re not thinking about it. I hope that in a perfect world, I would like to stay working for Tony Khan and AEW and take it a year at a time. The contract I came in here was three years because that’s what he (Khan) wanted. He wants stability. It made Time Warner happy because they’re used to my work in their company for many years and the WWE stuff as well.

“I’d like to, in a perfect world, Steven, I would say I’ll do this year, and then let’s evaluate and see where we are health-wise, motivational-wise. Then if I come back, I’d like to come back for a year at a time. That way, it doesn’t put Tony in any unnecessary stress. Because by the time my contract ends, I’ll be 70. So some young dude like you that’s 40 is going to be like ‘Jesus Christ, he’s old, dude’. But I’m having fun doing this. I’m not going to work every day. We do four shows a month. I’m required to be somewhere four times a month. It’s not bad. I’m not complaining. It’s just a matter of getting back in that travel groove. I’m a good packer. I have this saying, ‘I don’t have any room in my carry-on for negativity.’ But I think a year at this stage of my life to be realistic and not be egocentric, a year at a time is smart money for me.

Other topics include AEW going back on the road, how he balances his busy schedule, the idea behind Studio Sessions with Jim Ross, his new venture for AdFreeShows.com.