Jim Ross remembered Bill Dundee, who died earlier this month at 82, as a close friend and a sharp wrestling mind. Ross said he learned the business from Dundee at Mid-South in the mid-1980s, where Dundee was Bill Watts’s booker and wrote two one-hour TV shows weekly.
Ross said Dundee’s 5-foot-7 height did not fit Vince McMahon’s preferred build for WWE in-ring talent; the article notes that most performers in the Golden Era were over 6 feet. It also says McMahon considered Dundee for WWE’s creative and booking team, but those plans were derailed after a backstage conflict with The Undertaker came to light.
