From legendary wrestling announcer Jim Ross, this candid, colorful
memoir about the inner workings of the WWE and the personal crises
he weathered at the height of his career is "a must-read for
wrestling fans" (Charleston Post Courier). If you've caught a
televised wrestling match anytime in the past thirty years, you've
probably heard Jim Ross's throaty Oklahoma twang. The beloved
longtime announcer of the WWE "has been a driving force behind a
generation of wrestling fans" (Mark Cuban), and he's not slowing
down, having signed on as the announcer of the starry new wrestling
venture All Elite Wrestling. In this follow-up to his bestselling
memoir Slobberknocker, he dishes out about not only his long
career, which includes nurturing global stars like Stone Cold Steve
Austin, The Rock, and John Cena, but also about his challenges of
aging and disability, his split from collaborator Vince McMahon,
and the sudden death of his beloved wife, Jan. The result is a
gruff, endearing, and remarkably human-scale portrait, set against
the larger than life backdrop of professional wrestling. Ross's
ascent in WWE mirrors the rise of professional wrestling itself
from a DIY sideshow to a billion-dollar business. Under the Black
Hat traces all the highs and lows of that wild ride, in which Jim
served not only as on-air commentator, but talent manager, payroll
master, and even occasional in-ring foil to threats like Paul
"Triple H" Levesque and Undertaker. While his role brought him
riches and exposure he had never dreamed of, he chafed against the
strictures of a fickle corporate culture and what he saw as a
narrow vision of what makes great wrestlers-and great story lines.
When suddenly stricken with Bell's palsy, a form of facial
paralysis that makes it impossible to smile, he started down his
greatest fear-being cast out of the announcing booth for good.
Picking up where Slobberknocker left off and ending on the cusp of
a new career in a reimagined industry, Under the Black Hat is the
triumphant tale of a country boy who made it to the top, took a few
knocks, and stuck around-just where his fans like him. Not only
being one of the greatest wrestlers of the WWE, Ross is also "a
master storyteller, and this book is the perfect forum for his
forty years' worth of tales" (Chris Jericho, former WWE champion).
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