10 Funniest Jim Ross Memes That Have Us Cry-Laughing
Jim Ross is one of the most iconic announcers in professional wrestling, a barbecue and college football-obsessed Okie whose southwestern drawl and 10-gallon hat defined WWE’s Attitude Era. His contributions to the late 1990s wrestling is so significant that his classic call from that Undertaker vs. Mankind Hell in a Cell match -- You know the one: bah gawd, somebody stops the damn match, etc -- is frequently put over footage from non-wrestling things to create hilarious viral video content. But what about classic image macro style memes? Are there any of those as it pertains to Good Ol’ J.R.?
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You better believe there are! So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at ten of the funniest Jim Ross memes.
10 That McMahon Has a Family
In 2016, Shane McMahon and The Undertaker had a Hell in a Cell match, with McMahon’s status in the company at stake. McMahon lost but still got to be an onscreen authority figure because his dad felt bad.
The big moment in the match had McMahon do an elbow drop off the top of the Cell onto the Undertaker as the Dead Man laid on the announce table. Jim Ross’ most iconic call is from a Hell in a Cell match, so this meme is about that.
9 Jim Ross Appreciation Night
One of the weirder things WWE did to Jim Ross was publicly embarrassed him any time Raw came to his home state of Oklahoma. Vince McMahon seems to think this is the funniest thing in the world.
So one night on Raw came to Oklahoma City and announced that the episode would be a J.R. Appreciation Night, which means that something embarrassing was definitely going to happen. So out comes CM Punk to browbeat Jim Ross and stomp on his big hat.
8 Speaking of Vince
As established, Vince McMahon has a special place in his heart for giving Jim Ross a ridiculously hard time on television, and fans have taken notice.
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Stuff like that as well as other incidents -- this segment where John Cena rips Michael Cole’s clothes off and douses him with J.R.’s own BBQ sauce, for example -- is seen as being at odds with WWE’s homegrown anti-bullying campaign, called “Be a STAR,” which WWE regularly used to promote on its TV shows.
7 Old School
This meme celebrates the defining figures of “old school” wrestling, though the inclusion of Bill Watts and Paul Heyman would mean defining “old school” as “anything that happened before the year 2000. Jim Ross was a central figure in the Attitude Era, but his career goes back through World Championship Wrestling, NWA, and Mid-South Wrestling, making him the most “old school” guy working today.
This meme is funny because it exists to slam Vince Russo, known for contributing to the Attitude Era WWE before derailing both WCW and TNA.
6 She Had a Family
One of Jim Ross’ most popular and meme-worthy calls is “That man has a family!” which is reserved for any time something particularly brutal has been done in wrestling and originates from an incident where Kane delivered a Tombstone Piledriver to an innocent WWE Timekeeper.
Here we see J.R. and his broadcast partner Jerry Lawler react to a headline about a woman being attacked by a rhino (but not Rhyno).
5 Remember Tout?
Here’s the same image of J.R. and The King but used for a completely different purpose -- to mock WWE’s shameless plugging of Tout. In 2012, WWE invested $5 million in a social networking app called Tout.
Imagine if Vines were twice as long and less fun -- and spent the following two years promoting it as much as possible by airing Touts of fans rambling about how CM Punk may say he’s the best in the world, but he can’t see John Cena.
4 Nobody Compares to J.R.
This meme is all about how many modern WWE play-by-play guys just don’t compare to Jim Ross. Michael Cole may be nicknamed “The Voice of the WWE,” but he’s not exactly beloved by fans, who criticize him for being a vanilla personality who basically says whatever he’s told to say by the boss backstage.
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Even less beloved is Josh Mathews -- now the lead commentator for Impact Wrestling -- who is basically a frat house version of Michael Cole.
3 The JPEG Version of Those Videos
As stated earlier, memers love to put J.R.’s classic Hell in a Cell call over videos of people getting wrecked in one way or another. This Jim Ross-themed NBA meme is the still version of that, depicting a shot of a dejected Lebron James as his Cleveland Cavaliers are losing by 39 points to the Golden State Warriors in the fourth quarter.
Brutal stuff, made even rougher by the idea of Jim Ross screaming about how you’ve died before his eyes.
2 *Stares in Bah Gawd*
You can’t go wrong with a *Stares in _____* Descriptive Noise meme, especially when it concerns a figure with a bunch of catchphrases, such as Jim Ross.
His Oklahoman drawl has turned his trademark exclamation of “BY GOD” into “BAW GAWD,” which has proven to be a seemingly endless supply of meme fuel. This one concerns the miracle of a wrestler falling from a great height, but not getting the Mick Foley treatment.
1 Bah Gawd, Thanos Has Ripped the Universe in Half
While it lasted, the “Avenge the Fallen” trend was a fun period in meme history. The movie Avengers: Endgame was coming out, and Disney put out loads of character posters featuring the many beloved characters that died in Infinity War, depicted in black and white with the phrase “Avenge the Fallen” emblazoned across them.
Doing it with J.R. is very appropriate -- after all, who in this world is more fallen than Mick Foley?
