Oklafan.com v5 Beta > Columns > JR's Blog: Tuesday Update...Mid South Fan to HOF...Frank Mir...The Legend of Sign Guy...Ontario, Canada Needs the UFC..."Got Sauce?"

Home
Columns

JR's Blog: Tuesday Update...Mid South Fan to HOF...Frank Mir...The Legend of Sign Guy...Ontario, Canada Needs the UFC..."Got Sauce?"

Posted: Feb 23rd 2010 By: CMBurnham

Thanks for stopping by and spending a few minutes on our site. Our on line business continues to be brisk and we are going to more than double our sales for February 09! Order early and often and we will get your order shipped to you immediately. Thanks.

Music has become such a large part of the wrestling scene and that fact was never more evident than the choice of music used in the HBK-Undertaker video package Monday night. I Tweeted (JRsBBQ) about this seconds after I saw it and I will willingly go into a hyperbole-free zone to say it was one of the best vignettes that I can ever remember seeing on a wrestling, TV show. Ever.

If I decide to not write an autobiography, I think I might consider writing about the famous, ringside, "Sign Guy." This super fan shows up at the damnedest times with some of the most creative signs imaginable. He's even been to J.R.'s Family BBQ in Norman and if I'm there Monday and he comes in then his groceries are on me. Maybe I can bribe him to make a nice "JR" sign for the OKC event next Monday night. "Sign Guy" even has his own recognizable outfit and always wears the blue shirt and bright red cap.

Perhaps if I ever take a "healthy" sabbatical from the biz, I can just travel around to wrestling events with "Sign Guy" to do "research" for the aforementioned book. "Sign Guy" is a reality show waiting to happen.

"The Legend of Sign Guy...the Novel."

Sorry to hear of the firestorm that my pal Ric Flair found himself in Sunday night. "Naitch" and I have been friends for over a quarter of a century and I choose to remain steadfastly behind him. We don't know all the details of this unfortunate matter nor do we need to know all the details. What we all should do is to hope that this matter is resolved to everyone's happiness and all involved parties can proceed with their lives.

Same goes, in this space, for the Tiger Woods' controversy. I'm over it.

The Q&A Section of the site has been updated for your reading pleasure. I updated them all after returning from my regular trip to the gym Monday evening.

Congrats to Wendi Richter for her HOF announcement. If my memory serves me correctly, as a young lady Wendi lived in Louisiana and was a big time Mid South Wrestling fan. As the story goes, or so I've been told, she approached Mid South's Grizzly Smith about breaking into the biz as a teen and he encouraged her to finish her formal education before Wendi finally went to train with Lillian (The Fabulous Moolah) Ellison in South Carolina. Nonetheless I'm happy for Wendi and was pleasantly surprised when her named was called.

I think I may need a Twitter intervention. It's just too damned easy to do especially when one's mind is racing in a multitude of directions. Follow my escapades at http://twitter.com/JRsBBQ.

UFC's Frank Mir made some alarmingly strong and controversial comments on the popular, Mark Madden radio show in Pittsburgh recently about wanting to see Brock Lesnar "die inside the Octagon" seemingly and preferably at Mir's hands. Frank Mir is a badass who is a driven man but he may want to start thinking before he begins talking. I think Mir is a compelling, sports figure who is obviously obsessed with mangling Brock Lesnar but it's not Brock Lesnar that Mir is fighting soon. Paging Shane Carwin.

I actually like the "interim heavyweight champion" tag that will be awarded the winner of the upcoming Mir-Carwin UFC because the winner faces Lesnar, hopefully, later this year in a "champion vs. champion" bout. Carwin could throw a wrench into the plan by knocking Mir cold in New Jersey but if the talkative and combative Mir does win then Mir vs. Lesnar will likely do 1M PPV buys. That's some "serious money."

UFC will be well served to get as much of Mir talking for their upcoming build to the Carwin fight as possible because Mir sells tickets with his mouth. In the wrestling world, we would have Lesnar advertised to be sitting at ringside for the Mir-Carwin fight but UFC wouldn't create such a potentially volatile scenario, would they??

Some MMA types are saying that they feel that Cain Vel?squez has "no personality." I disagree and feel that it is the TV producer's responsibility to mine the proper and organic sound bytes out of the undefeated heavyweight and to make him into a star. The young man is a stallion and I wouldn't care if he stuttered like Mel Tillis if he continues to fight like he has and he continues to speak from his heart.

The Provence of Ontario in Canada is a beautiful part of the world but some of their politicians apparently aren't Mensa Members. Obviously, Ontario has many priorities to address just as any municipality but clearing the way for MMA in Toronto shouldn't take an act of monumental, political proportions. I would suggest that a UFC PPV would likely sell out the Rogers Centre which has been the home of two Wrestlemanias. That brings money to the community and makes the folks that live there happy. Who loses on that arrangement?

We are fully stocked with all our products and I must say that we have had a particularly good week with our personalized, autographed JR's Cookbook orders this week along with the 97% Fat Free Beef Jerky doing super. Again, we appreciate everyone's support and will do all we can to earn your business on every order. FREE SHIPPING is still available for orders in the USA.

Boomer Sooner!

J.R.