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JR's Blog: Raw's Conclusion Fabulous..Doug Furnas..WWEShop.com..HOT BBQ getting HOTTER..Liddell vs. Franklin

Posted: Jun 9th 2010 By: mikeiles

Thanks for stopping by our website. Please tell a friend about us...send them a link, etc as we continue to grow. We can get your products to you in time for Father's Day if you don't delay and certainly make plans to have plenty of our sauces on hand for the 4th of July holiday.

For me to stay hooked for any three hour broadcast, unless perhaps it's an exciting, College Football Game, NFL game or a strong, UFC PPV, is challenging for me. Monday night's Raw was a three hour edition where the conclusion of the show made the three hour investment worthwhile.

The NXT wrestlers collective assault on all that is WWE including wrestlers, announcers, the ring announcer, time keeper, security, etc was a complete shocker.

Raw's ending from Miami was one of the best conclusions of any Raw episode in years.

This incident was completely out of the blue and poses many more questions than answers which is the life's blood of producing episodic TV.

The follow up to this matter certainly has my interest and I am more than curious to see where this NXT issue goes. I can only assume that it will be addressed tonight in some form on the 2nd season premier of NXT on Syfy.

I agree with some emailers of this site that the NXT invasion and beat down was somewhat NWO-esque but I have no idea if that's the direction this is headed which is another reason that this matter is so intriging....we don't know its destination.

Another thing that I liked about Raw Monday were the cameos from several WWE HOF'ers including Mean Gene Okerlund, Roddy Piper, and Dusty Rhodes. Nice touch of nostalgia especially with WWE promoting WWEClassics.com so aggressively along with WWE 24/7 On Demand. Mean Gene's interaction with Josh Mathews was 'vintage.'

J.R.'s Original BBQ Sauce and J.R.'s Championship Original Beef Jerky will be available at WWEShop.com likely by the end of the week so be sure and check it out. Remember that WWEShop.com can ship internationally but I do not know all the details but their site will have all the info you need once it goes 'live.' I hope that every one from the UK to Canada to Australia to parts unknown will place orders.

Check out our Facebook page as we are now linking back to all my Tweets. Hit our Facebook page at http://facebook.dj/jrbbq/. My speech from the Cauliflower Alley Club in April will also be on Facebook in a few days.

We met with our sauce folks yesterday and will be making our Hot BBQ Sauce even hotter per the request of many customers. The HOT will definitely be HOT going forward. It will make for some awesome HOT chicken wing sauce.

Emailer...will the Freebirds be inducted into the WWE HOF in Atlanta in 2011? I have no idea who is or isn't going to be inducted but I do think that Jimmy Garvin should be included if the 'Birds are inducted. The Fabulous Freebirds certainly have earned the HOF distinction in my humble opinion.

Emailer...I have not heard any thing regarding the whereabouts or the physical condition of native Oklahoman Doug Furnas. Last I heard, Doug was living in San Diego and someone told me that he was having health problems but that isn't official. I hope that Doug is doing well as the strongman and native of Commerce, Oklahoma was a really nice guy who played college football at the University of Tennessee after attended Northeast Oklahoma A&M (NEO).

We've updated our Q&A's as of Tuesday afternoon. Check them out if you have the time.

The Undertaker's 'Deadliest Matches' is out today on DVD and is a really fun DVD to watch. It covers the true evolution of the Undertaker persona through multiple eras and with a wide variety of opponents and unique matches. I enjoyed it and think that it's a must have for all Undertaker fans. It certainly brought back plenty of fun memories for me as a broadcaster.

It's hard to pick a winner in Saturday's UFC PPV in Vancouver in the Chuck Liddell vs. Rich Franklin main event which is another reason that UFC PPV's are so much fun to watch. I'm an 'Iceman' fan but one always wonders how much fuel is left in the tank of a veteran like Liddell. We know that Chuck's passion and his will to compete will always be in place but are his physical skills still in tact to win an other UFC main event? Insiders speculate that Franklin is nearing the end of his run and that he has confided in some folks that he's about ready to call it a career. That's merely hearsay as far as I know but it certainly adds to the intrigue of this fight. It's arguable that both Liddell and Franklin won't be fighting that much longer as neither athlete strikes me as the type of fighter that will allow themselves to stay too long.

There is no way that the judges will influence Liddell vs. Franklin Saturday night from where I sit.

Vancouver is a great city, one of my favorite places to visit from my days of weekly, WWE travel, but their politicos seem to be having a knee jerk reaction to UFC/MMA regarding what I've read as being ridiculous requirements for insurance, etc. It's too bad that uneducated politicians often times perceive UFC to be something that it isn't and that these decisions then adversely affect the fans who live in the community. I can assure you that the many businesses in Vancouver will covet the UFC being in town this week.

How any city can't look at the UFC as simply being a major sporting event is beyond me.

Emailer... yes, Chris Jericho is without question one of the top five pro's in the business right now and there is nothing that the Winnipeg veteran can't do well. Jericho's value on TV and at live events is immeasurable.

Follow my travails on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JRsBBQ.

Emailer...yes we are still working on making our early 90's WSB Radio show available to you. My friend Dennis Brent has all the shows and has transferred them from cassette tapes to disc's and the process of getting them ready to market is in motion.

For those that are buying cases of product, we hope to provide some of you with some 'surprises' as time goes on. I won't divulge the 'surprises' but I think that you will enjoy the free 'stuff.'

Nonetheless we appreciate any and all orders. Keep our personalized, autographed JR's Cookbook in mind for your Father's Day gift giving but don't burn any daylight.

Be well and count your many blessings.

Boomer Sooner!

J.R.