Jim Ross Provides Health Update Following Fall, Believes He Suffered A Concussion

AEW announcer Jim Ross has provided an update on his health after suffering a recent fall.

Good ol' JR suffered the fall the night before the debut episode of Collision (on June 17), but flew to Chicago for the taping anyway and announced the show's main event.

Following the show, Ross apologised for the way he sounded and announced that he would be taking some time away from the broadcast booth to heal.

Discussing his current health, the fall, the decision to work the Collision taping, and the aftermath during a recent edition of his Grilling JR podcast, Ross said:

"I'm feeling pretty good. You know, I think I'm getting better every day. I just had a string of bad luck, health wise, which is very unusual for me because, knock on wood, I've been very blessed with good health. But when you get to be 71, and you're trying to live a young man's life in a young man's business and going on the road every week, it can get very challenging. So that's kind of what I found myself in that situation. But what happened was, you know, it's a hell of a story, at least it was for me. I got up and not unlike a lot of other people, I had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night, so I hopped out of bed to go to my bathroom, and apparently I tripped over my CPAP cord. And when I did, I fell face-first into the end table next to my bed and the corner of it hit over here somewhere. So I had a huge knot immediately, eye swelled shut almost immediately. But I was so sleepy and so out of it that I just got back in bed. I think I actually went to the bathroom. Mother Nature won that match, and then I got back in bed.

"And then the next morning, when I woke up, that was my flight out to Chicago to do that first show that we're talking about here, Collision, and that's all I was thinking about. I woke up and I had a badass headache. But okay, a headache ain't gonna keep JR out of work. But I had a bad headache, which was a result of the concussion. And my only thought was, 'I gotta finish packing and get on the road'. That's kind of what I did, but I was very unstable. Everything was very foggy, and I'd have been better off staying at home period, but hard-headedness and being stubborn, and I felt like I had a commitment that I'd made that I wanted to fulfil.

"So I got dressed rather slowly. And my driver, I have the same driver that drives me to the airport [and] picks me up, brings me home every week, he knows if I'm not standing there ready to go, to come upstairs where I live. But I was downstairs waiting and on a little unsteady ground, and flew to Chicago. And as the day went on in Chicago, my voice kept going in and out, and I don't know what the hell that was. I thought, 'Well, I'll get over it. I'll drink a lot of hot tea or hot coffee or whatever - hot something, and make that work for me'. But it was just too much to overcome. And I apologise for how I sounded. I didn't intend to sound that way. I didn't want to sound that way. And I know I disappointed a lot of people. I disappointed me. I don't think it made anybody in AEW real happy how I sounded, but I was doing the best that I could.

"So after that show was over, I went back to the announcers' locker room, where we all dress, all of us, collectively, a little community place, and I sat there for a little bit and thought, 'Man, I can't keep doing this. I don't feel good. Something's not right. I got here, I did the best I could. But boy, I need to get home'. So good old Rafael Morffi, who's taken care of me so much on the road over the years, helped me get back to the hotel. I tucked myself in, and I didn't even get undressed that night. I wanted to make sure I could not waste any time making that flight the next morning. So I flew home, headache and all, and I've been here ever since. I've been out of the house a few times to go to Publix, go to the grocery store, maybe two or three times in the last several weeks. Other than that, I've got people that are helping me get groceries or whatever I need, prescriptions, things like that. But I was too unsteady to drive and sure as hell too unsteady to walk around a grocery store. So I had my housekeeper buy me a little cane, which I'm embarrassed to say I've used a little bit, not outside, but here in the house to help me get around so I don't have any more falls".

The WWE Hall of Famer added that he's lucky he didn't bleed out in the night as there was a lot of blood on his pillowcase when he woke up.

Ross noted that there's no return date set for him, but that he will be back in AEW and thanked Tony Khan for his patience and support while he recovers.

H/T F4W Online