{"id":19100,"date":"2025-07-27T05:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jim-ross-wrestling-legend-announces-colon-cancer-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T09:28:43","slug":"jim-ross-wrestling-legend-announces-colon-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wwe\/jim-ross-wrestling-legend-announces-colon-cancer-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ross, wrestling legend, announces colon cancer diagnosis"},"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.\n\nRoss, 73, announced the news via a social media post on Thursday, revealing 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 shares his diagnosis<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI appreciate your concern and support,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><cite>Jim Ross<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nRoss is widely known for his outstanding career in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) from 1993 to 2013. His iconic phrases have transcended popular culture, solidifying him as one of the most beloved voices in the history of wrestling.\n\nHis famous exclamation &#8220;My God!&#8221; or &#8220;For God&#8217;s sake&#8221;, pronounced with his Oklahoma accent after a shocking moment, is perhaps his most famous phrase. Other expressions such as &#8220;He split it in half&#8221; and &#8220;That man has a family&#8221; are often used on social media.\n\nRoss is a fervent follower and promoter of the American football team Oklahoma Sooners, and has frequently walked to the ring with the school&#8217;s anthem, &#8220;Boomer Sooner&#8221;, playing in the background.\n\nInducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007, Ross has been working with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) since 2019.\n\nAEW issued a statement expressing its support for Ross.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><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 stand by him during his road to recovery,&#8221; said AEW in a statement.<\/p><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. Ross, 73, announced the news via a social media post on Thursday, revealing that he was diagnosed this week and will undergo surgery in the next two weeks. Jim Ross shares his diagnosis \u201cI appreciate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2326,2327,495,191],"class_list":{"0":"post-19100","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\/19100","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=19100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}