Jim Ross Responds to D-Von Dudley’s Racism Incidents Accusations & Says “I Am Not A Racist, I Have Never Been A Racist”

As noted before, WWE and TNA Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley had accused a former WWE higher-up of being racist towards him during his time in WWE during the Attitude Era and later confirmed that this person was former WWE Head of Talent Relations and current AEW commentator Jim Ross. Ross responded this past December denying the allegations being and claimed the alleged incident never took place. Dudley responded on Wednesday detailing two past incidents and stated that one of the incidents involved Ross being very intoxicated.

A recent episode of the Grilling JR podcast featured co-host Ross responding to Dudley’s recent accusations against him. Ross and co-host Conrad Thompson also stated that Maven had reached out to them and suggested the idea of Ross and Dudley meeting up to discuss the issues but Ross does not want to make a show of it.

Conrad Thompson – “No problem! I’m happy to do it! I’m just not gonna put it on tape and make a TV show out of it. Period.”

Jim Ross – “How many times do I gotta address it to satisfy everybody? I am not a racist. I have never been a racist. Ask some of the African-American athletes that I’ve been around and worked with in my 50-year career. They’ll say the same thing, and like I said before, when you and I first talked about this, I don’t remember the first cross word I had with D-Von (Dudley). The boisterous one was Bubba (Ray Dudley). But not in a bad way. He just had no problem expressing himself and Bubba had a lot of ideas. He was a throwback. A main event guy that wanted to be involved into booking his angle, and I loved that. If more guys would do that — and today, they just wait for someone to tell ‘em what they’re gonna do tonight, and that’s the wrong approach in my opinion. But, I’d have no problem reconnecting with D-Von… I’ve never gotten mad at him. I was bewildered about how this could happen. Because like I said, I don’t remember any negative exchanges with him, and what I was allegedly said would damn sure be negative.”

In response to comments by co-host Thompson about Ross would not be up for trying to monetize the meeting, Ross responded stating:

“I’m not. I’m not interested in that. I am interested in reconnecting with D-Von, because I like D-Von.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com