{"id":10374,"date":"2025-06-12T06:54:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jim-ross-wrestling-legend-fights-colon-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T06:54:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:54:20","slug":"jim-ross-wrestling-legend-fights-colon-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wwe\/jim-ross-wrestling-legend-fights-colon-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ross, Wrestling legend, fights colon cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jim Ross, wrestling legend, battles colon cancer<\/h2>\n\nThe renowned professional wrestling commentator, Jim Ross, has been diagnosed with colon cancer. The news, announced by Ross himself, has generated a wave of support and concern in the wrestling community.\n\nAt 73 years old, Ross revealed in a social media post that he was diagnosed this week and will undergo surgery in the next two weeks.\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JRsBBQ\/status\/1923070256802603315\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Ross announces his diagnosis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate your concern and support,&#8221; Ross wrote.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Jim Ross<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRoss is widely known for his extensive career in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he worked from 1993 to 2013. His iconic phrases and storytelling style made him one of the most emblematic and beloved voices in the history of wrestling.\n\nHis famous exclamation &#8220;My God!&#8221; or &#8220;By God!&#8221;, pronounced with his distinctive Oklahoma accent after shocking moments, is perhaps his most recognizable phrase. Other expressions, such as &#8220;He&#8217;s split in half!&#8221; and &#8220;That man has a family&#8221;, have become part of popular culture.\n\nRoss is a fervent follower and fan of the Oklahoma Sooners American football team, he has often been seen walking towards the ring with the school anthem, &#8220;Boomer Sooner&#8221;.\n\nInducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007, Ross has been part of All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2019.\n\nAll Elite Wrestling issued a statement showing its support.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;All Elite Wrestling joins fans around the world in sending love and support to Jim Ross as he battles colon cancer. J.R. is a valued member of the AEW family, and we are with him on his journey to recovery,&#8221; stated AEW.<\/p>\n\n<cite>All Elite Wrestling<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Ross, wrestling legend, battles colon cancer The renowned professional wrestling commentator, Jim Ross, has been diagnosed with colon cancer. The news, announced by Ross himself, has generated a wave of support and concern in the wrestling community. At 73 years old, Ross revealed in a social media post that he was diagnosed this week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2326,2327,495,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-10374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wwe","8":"tag-colon-cancer","9":"tag-jim-ross","10":"tag-wrestling","11":"tag-wwe"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}