Jim Ross opens up about WWE roller-coaster in emotional new book

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The legendary wrestling announcer’s new book, “Under the Black Hat: My Life in the WWE and Beyond,” provides a detailed and emotional look inside the latter portion of his time with World Wrestling Entertainment. It picks up where his previous book, “Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling,” left off, covering his return from a bout with Bell’s palsy for WrestleMania 15 in 1999 to him parting ways with WWE in April 2018, a year after his wife, Jan, tragically died in a car accident.

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“Every time I’d read a passage that we wrote I lived it again,” the 68-year-old Ross said in a phone interview. “I had been there. I knew what I was wearing. I knew what she smelled like. It was hard, man.”

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“Never let your life beat the s—t out of you,” Ross said. “You don’t have to let it beat you up. We’re not forced to take the hand we’re dealt. We can’t do a lot about what we’re dealt, but we can do everything about what we do about the hand that’s dealt to us.”

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