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JR's Blog: JR's Waterloo Experience and the dawning of a 'new era' on Monday Night Raw

Posted: Jul 26th 2011 By: CMBurnham

Another hot one in Oklahoma. Dangerouly hot. Thank goodness for air conditioning. Random thoughts....

We had a great time in Waterloo, Iowa this past weekend. Receiving the Lou Thesz Award was a magnificent honor for me. My speech ran a little longer than the 5 minutes alotted but when does a former ring crew/ref get an award of this magnitude? Once in a lifetime.

Great seeing so many old friends and long time fans. Pro wrestling fans take a back seat to no one.

Also, it was rewarding to further connect with the amateur wrestling community as I feel that many future WWE stars will come from that world over the next several years.

I really enjoyed meeting MMA broadcaster Pat Miletich who was inducted by the legendary Dan Gable who I also throughly enjoyed visiting with in his hometown.

The beginning of the 'HHH era' of Monday Night Raw begins in a few hours. It should be an interesting night. I'm confident that the 'Cerebral Assassin' is ready for this new, exciting role as he is a true student of the game who has been a life long fan. I'm anxious to see what the 'lay of the land' resembles after Raw goes off the air tonight.

I'm equally curious to see how HHH addreses the CM Punk situation which, one could assume, is a timely issue that at some point must be addressed. Will that be tonight or at some later time?

The WWE Title is the centerpiece of WWE in my view and as I write this blog Punk is still the champion but he's noticeably absent from the scene but is certainly not 'going away' at least in the minds of the fans.

Interesting days lie ahead and it all starts tonight at 9/8 central time on the USA Network.

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Boomer Sooner....

J.R.