Jim Ross comments on his worst talent signing that WWE “wasted a lot of time on”
While speaking on his podcast, Jim Ross was asked who he considered to be the worst signing from his time as WWE’s Head of Talent Relations. Here was JR’s response…
“I think maybe the one that we wasted a lot of time on was Tiger Jeet Singh’s son. Tiger Ali Singh.
Nice kid. Good-looking. Smart. He just didn’t have the natural ability to connect to the audience. He looked good. He looked the part. Vince [McMahon] loved him, and what Vince was looking at was opening up international markets, where Tiger Ali Singh would have been a viable option.
But it was funny. When I signed him, he wanted—he almost demanded—to fly first class. I kicked that idea back because that’s not what Vince wanted to do, and Vince would have squashed it anyway.
So we had a compromise. He would fly first class on the last leg of his tour. When he got off the plane in Toronto—where he lived, where he’s from—he would be with that group of first-class passengers that got off the plane first, so people could see him get off first and assume automatically that he was riding first class like a star.
So we did that for him, and it still didn’t work out. But I wish it would have worked, because he could have made a fortune in international markets without question.”