Jim Ross On How The Revival Would Fit In With AEW

Jim Ross would like to call matches involving The Revival.

WWE recently released the duo after years of discontent with how they were being booked on main roster television. During their time with the promotion, The Revival racked up two reigns each with the NXT and SmackDown Tag Team Championships, one reign with the RAW Tag Team Championships and a joint reign with the 24/7 championship. The wrestling world took to Twitter to show their appreciation for the team.

One company linked to The Revival in the past is AEW, the promotion Ross currently works for. The Revival and The Young Bucks have had a friendly rivalry over the years, with both teams taking cracks at the other. AEW have shown a commitment to pushing their tag team division to the forefront, due in no small part to The Young Bucks influence.

On this week's edition of the Top Rope Nation Wrestling Podcast, hosts Ryan Droste and Kyle Ross interviewed Ross about his new book Under The Black Hat, where he also spoke about the recently released tag team.

Ross said he thinks everyone in wrestling will be interested in Dawson and Wilder, adding he would like to be a broadcaster for the pair's matches, but he doesn't know if they will sign with AEW.

"Well, it's a big if, everything's a big if, because I don't know what The Revival's goals are," Ross said. "I think they would fit into our team very, very well. You know, we're trying to be a little bit more athletic, athletically oriented, more fundamentally sound in our storytelling, and The Revival team certainly fits that bill. They are one of the best tag teams in the world, period, no matter where it is. So I think they would do great in our company, whether that happens or not remains to be seen.

"There'll be gross speculation that it's a done deal, all that good stuff. But Tony Khan handles that, and I'm not in that talent relations role any longer. Thank goodness. I'm the Senior Adviser. Let me tell you what that means, the job description is this: I take credit for all the good ideas and I disavow any knowledge of the ones that suck. So that's a Tony...I can't imagine, knowing Tony Khan as I do, and the fan that he is and his ability to spot great things.. I can't imagine that he wouldn't be interested. Why would anybody not be interested in Revival is my question? So I'm thinking there's a possibility they come to work for us."

Ross noted that he liked the style of the team. He added that he would love to call their matches.

"I think, you know, I'd love that. I'd love to call their matches. I've watched a lot of their work, you know, they're a throwback team. That doesn't mean they wear black boots. And, you know, it's just the old school stuff. They are fundamentally sound, they're old school oriented in the process of telling a story, and I think that's really important. They don't leave things out. They don't take shortcuts, and they have the ability, with their skill set, to work with any team out there and make that team and that match better. And we've got some really good teams evolving in AEW of course led by the Young Bucks, who may be the best tag team in the world. If they're not, they're certainly in the conversation.

"But one could certainly as a broadcaster, and as a fan, because I don't have any insider information on this deal, I just read about it a little before we went on, we started recording that, you know, that these guys are released there, they may become available sooner than later. I don't know about how long their no compete is. That'll be a big point, everybody will have a theory on that deal, usually they're 90 days but I don't... WWE may have, you know, rescinded that on where they stood. They may have made an exception. Let them go do their thing. So anyway, I hope that they consider AEW. I'd sure as hell like to call some of their matches. They remind me a lot of the old Midnight Express. They just don't have a Jim Cornette in their corner right now. So, but boy, these guys are good. They're really good and they're young. They're athletic, they're durable. They seem to be good locker room guys, they're wrestling guys. They're not sports entertainment guys. That was never a great fit. But they're wrestling guys and they need to be in a wrestling company. For my money, that's AEW."

Ross was also asked about his wrestling broadcaster Mt. Rushmore. While Ross would most likely be included on the fan's version of the list, Ross didn't name himself, instead opting to give credit towards the play-by-play guys that came before him, as well as some of the great color commentators.

"Gordon Solie, Bob Caudill, Lance Russell, Gorilla Monsoon would be four off the top of my head that I would put on there," Ross said. "If you included color guys, color commentators, that would certainly include Bobby Heenan, who may be the best all around performer I've ever worked with, as far as being an outstanding wrestler, a great heel, a manager, a host, a color guy. He excelled in everything he did. And nobody in that era was better or that area was better than Bobby, in my view. So Bobby Heenan would be on that list, Paul Heyman would be one, Jerry Lawler would be one. Lawler, Heyman, Cornette (was a) great color guy....When you ask the announcers, I just assumed it was like my role as a play by play guy. So those four I mentioned I think would be there quite easily. There's a very subjective list like everything else, but there's my favorites."

You can hear the entirety of Jim Ross' interview with Top Rope Nation below.