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JR's Blog: Thursday Blog, JR on @FoxSports CFB Pre Game Show Sat, Big Cowboy Lighting Podwast World UP!, @GoBGmma PPV Nears, Sho Funaki, Flair Update, @ImpactWrestling, Book Update

Posted: Sep 19th 2014 By: Jim Ross

Good day everyone and I hope this finds you well. Thanks for stopping by our site as we appreciate everyone's support especially with your online shopping and for downloading the Ross Report podcast every week. Our show this week features a long talk with my mentor Cowboy Bill Watts and it's getting rave reviews. It really helps us when you subscribe to the Ross Report for FREE on iTunes as it downloads every show automatically and ensures that won't miss a show and it cost you zilch. Thanks for your consideration and now....let's grill.

Getting ready to do mucho media next week for the Battleground MMA PPV I'm broadcasting with Chael Sonnen on Friday October 3 emanating from Tulsa and featuring the return of the grueling, 8 man, single elimination tournament with 50K going to the winner.

It's exciting to be finally able to nab a MMA play by play assignment and working with the controversial, highly intelligent Sonnen will be a blast. I hope that you will consider giving us a shot on Friday night October 3 on PPV. Please check with your cable or satellite provider for all the info.

Not sure what has happened but all of the sudden our T shirt biz has gone crazy at http://www.prowrestlingtees.com/jimross. It might be all the great, new designs that have just be put on the website there or the fact that you get a free, RINGSIDE w/ Jim Ross shirt with every purchase. We've got virtually every size imaginable and offer affordable, worldwide shipping.

Solid @ImpactWrestling show Wednesday night highlighted by the Ladder match and the title bout between Lashley and Roode. Funny what happens when a show isn't overwritten and is booked to play to a talent's strengths which, for TNA, is the bell to bell physicality. They also increased their rating on @SpikeTV which is good only a few weeks after moving somewhat abruptly to Wednesday nights.

I'm told that Ric Flair is doing well and is upbeat that he will hopefully leave the hospital soon after surgery to address an appendix issue and to repair a hernia.

Heading to Morgantown, West Virginia for the OU vs. WVU Big 12 conference slugfest with one of the most rowdy crowds in the league. I love the atmosphere that college football offers and this Saturday night on @FoxSports will be no exception. I am scheduled to be interviewed slightly after 7 pm eastern time on the Fox College Football Pre Game show so watch or DVR it if you think of it. This game may be the CFB version of a 'Coal Miners Glove Match.'

The spread is OU -11 and I've got the Sooners winning late by 10.

Next week on the Ross Report my guest will be Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and we will tape the podcast after WWE's Night of Champions PPV and it will drop as usual on Tuesday at 9 pm eastern time. Dave and I will break down the PPV and likely work in some MMA discussion as well.

Check out ROH's tryout camp on 10/18 & 10/19 at the ROH gym in Bristol, Pa. Enrollment is limited and for more info you can hit help@rohwrestling.com.

My writing partner Scott Williams and I are planning devoting several days next week to my autobiography. We hope to have multiple 10-12 hour days in Norman as we continue to chip away at this challenging undertaking. One doesn't know how writing about one's life is until it's in progress. I find myself emotional when I talk about my parents, laughing out loud at some of the stories, grateful for the people and the life lessons that I've learned and, at times, highly pissed off at some experiences I've encountered. When one knows where many 'skeletons' are buried from those that were once considered friends, etc it's a tough decision as to what to include and what to omit. I will assure one and all that what ever I chose to write about will be the truth. We hope to have the book done by Spring or Summer of 2015.

Just my two cents but the wrestling biz would be better off, more profitable and would grow significantly more if more of the decision makers and the talents themselves would listen to Bill Watts talk about the business on this week's Ross Report podcast at podcastone.com and via iTunes. Having said that, egos won't allow it even with the business in the position that it's currently in. Amazing, right?

Was told yesterday in an interview that i did for @tailgateradio that Sho Funaki's middle school son is a helluva, football running back and Sho's wrestling school in San Antonio is doing well, too. You can follow Sho on Twitter @shofufu824. Hard to believe but Sho had a 14 year run in WWE. Never a problem and a classy, skilled pro.

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If you happen to bump into me in Morgantown, WV, please be sure and say hello even though I'm traveling with "the enemy" this weekend. Remember, it's just a football game and I'm happy and blessed to be able to attend.

BOOMER SOONER!

J.R. @JRsBBQ