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JR's Blog: Roundtable Update...JBL...Vickie's Back...HIAC Intriging

Posted: Oct 2nd 2009 By: mikeiles

It's Friday morning and after three nites in my old stomping grounds in Stamford, Ct. I'm ready to fly south to Miami for Saturday night's Oklahoma-Miami nationally televised college football showdown. I've scheduled my flight so I can be in my hotel to watch the Decade of Smackdown Celebration.

Here's some BBQ'ed random thoughts.

The Legend's Roundtable taping Wednesday night went super! Joey Styles proved to be a great host. JJ Dillon was awesome telling some amazing stories of managing the Horsemen and several others including the Mongolian Stomper. Jimmy Garvin and Michael Hayes had some cool Freebird stories and some of them might actually make air. The wrestling manager show is highlighted by several interesting stories going all the way back to the Bobby Davis days of managing Nature Boy Buddy Rogers and Slve Girl Moolah. We all also came up with our own Mt. Rushmore of wrestling managers.

The culture of wrestling in the south elicited some emotional debate and make no mistake there was a diference in southern wrestling and, say, wrestling in the old WWWF.

JBL was unavailable to attend the 10 year SD show but he's doing great in business and life in general. John is playing golf this weekend at Pebble Beach...not bad for a country boy from West Texas.

John's wife Merideth Whitney is featured in a great op-ed piece in Friday's Wall Street Journal.

It looks as if Vickie Guerrero may be returning to Smackdown as a manager. More on that Friday night on Smackdown.

Lots of talk at the Roundtable about the amazing Bobby Heenan who was virtually a lock for best manager ever by our panel. He got my vote.

Gary Hart was talked about as being one of the best and most underrated managers ever. An "evil genius."

One of my personal favorites was General Skandar Akbar. He was my first traveling partner and taught me so much about the biz. Ak had his series of matches with the legendary Bruno Sammartino taken away due to Stan Hansen breaking Bruno's neck way back in the day.

Does anyone remember Ma Bass...another great manager? Pensacola's Michael Hayes certainly did.

Hell in a Cell this Sunday will be an adventure with three main events inside the Cell. I'm intriged as to how they will all have their own identity and look forward to the PPV.

Plus, we finally get to see Morrison vs. Ziggler which has show stealing potential.

I have some Hell in a Cell predictions on my Smackdown blog at www.wwe.com.

We thank you for your business in our on line store and at JR's Family BBQ in Norman.

OU 24 Miami 21....no wagering please.

See you in Newark Sunday on pay per view.

BOOMER SOONER!

J.R.

Tags: Jim Ross, WWE, Jimmy Garvin, Michael Hayes, Fabulous Freebirds, Fabulous Moolah, Gary Hart, Skandar Akbar, Stan Hansen