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JR's Blog: The Rowdy One, Mid Atlantic Memories, Cena Critics, @RondaRousey, @UFC, Austin Turns the Paige, RINGSIDE w/ Jim Ross Show Ticket Info, Ross Report Podcast News, @WWEShop.com Grilling

Posted: Aug 3rd 2015 By: Jim Ross

Good to be back in Oklahoma after a wonderful three nights and four days in Charlotte at the NWA Legends Fan Fest. It was a fun time where I got to meet some great fans and renewed friendships with many of the folks from within the biz that I had not seen in years. The film that I narrated, Mid Atlantic Memories, is available on DVD by going to www.nwalegends.com and I highly recommend it to all fans no matter where you live. It's a great look at how a successful territory that was a destination for decades of the best wrestlers in the world.

Thanks to all that have read my piece on the late, Rowdy Roddy Piper on foxsports.com. Roddy was a truly unique original who's skill sets as a pro wrestling villain will be extremely hard to replicate and, honestly, the odds of that ever happening are miniscule. Roddy and I worked for the same podcast company, Podcast One, until recently when Roddy went to the upper management of that company requesting to cease doing his podcast as he told them that he was preparing to work on new movie project and a book.

Roddy was the perfect pro wresting villain because he was fearless, he had no issues putting his own safety at risk, and had no desire to be 'cool' back in the day but to be a truly despised individual that lived up to his casting/booking and to fulfill all the obligations his bosses and his opponent needed and that was to make the customers pay money to come see Rod get his comeuppance.

Roddy had no issues 'retreating' when the moment called for it and was always willing to cheat to gain an unfair advantage to win a match via unethical methods which are so lacking today by the majority of pro wrestling's villains.

Without Roddy Piper WWF would have had a more challenging time in developing their new presentation headed by super hero Hulk Hogan in the mid 80's with the launch of Wrestlemania 1 where Vince McMahon essentially mortgaged his company's entire future on the success of that one event. Rowdy Roddy Piper's contributions to Wrestlemania 1 can never be discounted.

The true art of being a pro wrestling villain is becoming a fleeting skill set that will, in time, erode the basic foundation of the business itself if it isn't addressed.

Tickets for all my RINGSIDE w/ Jim Ross Shows are on sale now at the following locations:

Wednesday August 19- 8pm- @DCImprov in Washington DC w/ tickets going fast at www.dcimprov.com. @chadduke will MC

Saturday August 22- 8pm-@GramercyTheatre- NYC and tickets are available at the box office and ticketmaster.com. Doug and Dave from Sirius XM's Busted OPen Radio will MC the Gramercy Theatre show.

Thursday Sept 10-Knoxville- The International-8 pm- and tickets are on sale now at www.ticketweb.com starting at $20 and VIP seating is limited.

Sunday afternoon September 20-4 PM-Warehouse Live and tickets are on sle now at www.ticketfly.com starting at $20 and VIP seating is limited. This event is just a 10 minute walk from the Toyota Center where later that night WWE will present Night of Champions. My show will be over in plenty of time for you to get from my venue to the Toyota Center to enjoy the WWE event.

Our shows feature stories of th road, humor and uncensored Q&A's.

Our Ross Report podcast with @ToughPatrickC has been amazing. This 19 year old young man has a bright future and being eliminated from Tough Enough may have been a blessing in disguise for him. Hear his thoughts on his experiences plus his own story of his personal interactions with Hulk Hogan. It's a riveting listen and its free at podcastone.com, iTunes and on the homepage of this website.

The much anticipated story of Al Snow's amazingly entertaining and adventurous career will be on his week's Ross Report along with my personal thoughts on Rowdy Roddy Piper on our podcast that drops Tuesday night at 9 pm ET and of which you can subscribe for FREE at iTunes and nve miss a show as it will download to your device automatically.

All our podcast guests through the first week of October are scheduled and you can find them on the homepage of this site.

Seems as if it's only the most uneducated and novice of wrestling fans who can truly dislike John Cena especially after watching his performance with a grotesquely broken nose on RAW. I can see where some may not enjoy John as much as others because he is "overexposed" in their view but to verbally castrate him for any other reason is borderline stupidity.

The amazing Ronda Rousey did it again Saturday night in Brazil with a first round knock out. There have been few athletes in my life time who have been as dominate in their sport as @RondaRousey is in MMA. Michael Jordan in the NBA, Mike Tyson in boxing and Wayne Gretzky in the NHL quickly come to mind. She's leading the way for women to strive to excel in their chosen fields of endeavor and thus creating new fans of female sports that will help countless women over time. I think that Rousey's popularity in MMA and her stardom around the world has contributed to WWE's renewed interest in developing the female side of their roster.

Putting Rousey and Conor McGregor on the same card in December in Arlington, Texas is a no brainer IMO if the goal is to sell close to 100,000 tickets for UFC. Adding a strong, Hispanic element to the show is needed too. Nonetheless I'd be willing to wager that WWE will still have more people in the stadium in April that UFC will in December no matter the card for UFC. The only way that WWE can fumble that one is to plan short term and not listen to their fan base.

Thanks for stopping by and we appreciate the visit. www.wweshop.com is doing record business selling JR's products as it makes any grilling session better and works in one's kitchen just as well. Keep an eye on www.prowrestlingtees.com/jimross for a new cap coming your way notwithstanding some new shirt designs.

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Boomer Sooner!

J.R. @JRsBBQ



I still think that Ronda Rousey vs. Stephanie McMahon in a 'stacked deck' "match" at Wrestlemania Texas is nothing but money.

Steve Austin interviews Paige Monday night after RAW in what should be a fun discussion. Great exposure for Steve's podcast by getting air time on the WWE Network.

The Q&A's elsewhere here on the site have been updated.