Legendary pro wrestling play-by-play man Jim Ross is cancer-free and already has his next goal in front of him.
The 73-year-old AEW voice announced on a recent episode of his “Grilling JR” podcast Wednesday that he has won his cancer fight, one month after revealing a colon cancer diagnosis.
“The cancer’s gone, which I’m very happy to say,” Ross said.
The WWE Hall of Famer stated he’d like to “get back to work” behind the announce desk for AEW’s “big event” of All In at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, on July 12.
All In has become AEW’s WrestleMania-like event and is in the U.S. for the first time after taking place at London’s Wembley Stadium the past two years.
Ross was on the call for the main event of last year’s edition.
This marked he second time Ross has battled cancer in recent years, having previously been diagnosed with skin cancer in October 2021 and then going into remission by the end of the year.
He underwent surgery a week after revealing he had colon cancer in May.
Ross praised AEW president Tony Khan for how he’s handled his time away to deal with his recent health concerns.
“Tony Khan has been amazingly wonderful,” Ross said on his podcast. “He supported me wholeheartedly, and I really do appreciate that. That’s the way a boss should act.”
Ross, who has been used in a more limited role the last few years, joined AEW at its inception in 2019 after 25 combined years in WWE, where he and Jerry “The King” Lawler were the voices of the Attitude Era in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
He has worked in wrestling since he began as a referee in 1974 for NWA Tri-State, which became Mid-South Wrestling under the legendary promoter Bill Watts.
Ross, who also has Bell’s palsy, moved to the broadcast team in 1977 and never looked back.
He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007.