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JR's Blog: JR's OKC RAW Thoughts...RIP Bobby Jaggers...Football & WWE Travel w/ an Understanding Wife..JR's @ American Soda & WWEShop.com

Posted: Oct 4th 2012 By: mikeiles

Good day everyone and thanks for stopping by our site. Please tell a friend about us and don't forget to check out all the great deals on JR's products now at http://www.wweshop.com. We're burning daylight....

My sincere thanks to all the folks at WWE and the WWE fans for my special evening this past Monday in OKC. The post RAW activities, which can be seen on wwe.com, exceeded my wildest expectations.

WWE bringing in Dan Hodge and Cowboy Bill Watts, my mentor who flew in from Florida, was a wonderful surprise.

The videos from @JerryLawler and OU Football coach Bob Stoops were tremendous and greatly appreciated.

I was deeply touched by the remarks made by WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and HHH.

I have to tell you that the award that WWE presented me was the nicest thing that I've ever been bestowed including my 2007 WWE Hall of Fame ring. The "Voice of WWE' engraving brought me to tears I'm not ashamed to say.

The segment that @CMPunk and I were involved in, of course along with the irrepressible @HeymanHustle Paul Heyman, was the highest rated quarter hour of the three hour broadcast which is a tribute to the WWE Champion and his evil sidekick.

My custom made hat took a beating but nothing that some expert steaming and reshaping won't cure. So..my hat got its feelings hurt but it will recover as we all know that one cannot grieve forever. (Thanks, King.)

Random RAW Thoughts:

Three hour, live broadcasts are challenging but having @MichaelCole there to keep the rudder in the water with the enormous amount of social media and other non in ring content to insert into the show is a Godsend for me. I kid you not. The amount of info that we are obligated to present to our viewers is amazing. Michael is the man and I'd not want to broadcast Raw without him. I'm very comfortable following his lead in a role that I'm still working diligently on which to improve.

Thought Damien Sandow had his finest outing since debuting in WWE. Anxious to see where the team of Sandow/Rhodes ends up but the duo known as Team Rhodes Scholars has a legit shot at becoming very good.

Ryback is just starting to come into his own. I got a tweet from a teacher that said his students were chanting "Feed Me More" prior to their lunch at school recently. Ryback is a unique talent who will hopefully carve out his niche much like other power and strength guys have over the years which takes a little more time and perseverance than many traditional talents. Ryback's exposure Monday night was timely for him and his progression.

Enjoying the tag team tournament. Team Hell No has brought needed attention to the division and now let's hope that other teams "catch on fire" and continue to make it more interesting.

Very impressed with the US Champion Antonio Cesaro who I've seen a great deal of in NXT. I think Cesaro has the chance to become a major star and now that he's w/o Aksana the spotlight is solely on him.

Did media Monday morning with @MiketheMiz in OKC who's about as good as anyone with who I've ever done media. Very smart, informed and glib. I feel that Miz can help re-establish the IC Title especially when he engages in a focused, contender over an extended period of time. I have plenty of time for a talent who works as hard as Miz both inside and outside the ring.

Ricardo Rodriguez is an underrated asset for WWE in my eyes. Rodriguez 'gets it' and will hopefully end up being a bigger star in WWE than what some fans perhaps currently perceive him.

Have to admit that every time I seen Daniel Bryan in the ring with CM Punk they always leave me wanting to see more. I know that they are have differing agendas now days but I can't help but like what I see when the two of them compete.

Enjoying watching Sheamus evolve. Reminds me of the stories wrestlers and promoters used to tell about Johnny Valentine who was one of the most rugged competitors in the history of the business. JV had a straight ahead, somewhat no frills, smash mouth style that , at times, took him a while to connect with the fan base in some wrestling territories. Same might be said for Sheamus who I'm very high on and when Sheamus arrives in full form he's going to stay at the next level for a long time to come. I equate it to a football team with a punishing running attack where some fans want to see said team throw the ball more until the running game continues to win lots of games at which time all is right with running the pigskin. I hope that Sheamus steers his course and continues to be physical and engaging both with his fists and his personality. I love a guy who likes to fight.

Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara's tag bout with Primo and Epico was sweeter than JR's Original BBQ Sauce. Nice work by all and yet another positive step forward in the tag team ranks on which many have voiced an opinion. Things there, as I mentioned, are looking up.

Sorry to hear of the passing of 'Hangman' Bobby Jaggers who was an underrated performer in the territory days including being a tag partner w/ the talented Dutch Mantell once upon a time as the Kansas Jayhawks. Jaggers was an incessant talker both in and out of the ring and was affectionately known as one of the "great embellishers" ever in the biz. Bobby was a helluva story teller who had a vivid imagination and loved to share it. He was a solid antagonist who worked in many territories and was a bleached blonde grappler of ample girth. Excellent flyer for a guy his size, too. My condolences to his family and friends.

I'm heading to Sacramento for Monday Night RAW with a stop over in Lubbock, Texas to watch my Oklahoma Sooners try to bounce back and knock off the undefeated Red Raiders of Texas Tech for the first time in Lubbock by the Sooners since 2003. After getting back home Tuesday from RAW, I'm off again Wednesday for Orlando and the NXT tapings @FullSail on Thursday October 11. That will get me home on Friday October 12, my wonderful bride and my 19th wedding anniversary, to only leave again for the OU-Texas game in Dallas. I'm a lucky man in that not only did i out punt my coverage marrying my lovely wife but she's also a football fan who tolerates my whacky gridiron oriented schedule during the fall.

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Boomer Sooner!

J.R.