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JR's Blog: Surprise Guest Coming to Ross Report Podcast Next Week, Impact Wrestling, ROH, UFC, MITB Thoughts, SHINE, WWE World Title Dilemna, Grill with JR's!!

Posted: Jun 30th 2014 By: Jim Ross

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I expect to announce a schedule change in our Ross Report Podcast guest schedule for next week as we are going to score a big time, timely interview that I will record on Monday and that will be live on Tuesday of this coming week at 6 pm pacific time on podcastone.com. Follow me on Twitter @JRsBBQ for more info as I'm really jacked about this one.

Our podcast continues to grow weekly thanks to your support and social media help promoting it. We are creating a great podcast team and together we will continue to do amazing things.

The person that I am interviewing Monday is one that has been on my bucket list of guests for a long time.

Tokyo Sports is reporting that Japanese star KENTA is signing with WWE soon and I'm thinking that KENTA will be a valuable addition to the performance center staff, at least for a time, as he can teach students a different style with varying techniques of which they need to learn. The key to training talents aside from learning the basics and how to be safe and fundamentally sound is to learn different styles. If everyone approaches the game the same then who is unique? I see Prince Devitt in the same role of helping coach some of the prospects in a different approach

Talents need to position themselves to be different and to get noticed. Never allow one's self to be stuck in one's comfort zone. Grow and try new things. No one stops improving but if they do then they start professionally dying.

Too much cookie cutter looking and trained talent isn't a sound way to build for the future.

From what I hear/read, Impact Wrestling had a successful three days of taping an enormous amount of product in NYC this past week. One would think that the decision makers in TNA would not easily see where they need to change, what they need to lessen and to increase and how to make their brand different.

I'd love to see a weekly, pro wrestling TV show not start off so formulaically and predictable with a long promo that is getting really old and mundane considering it's usually the authority figure tole that's addressed in each of these segments. The actual performance of being an authority figure generally is well done but the role itself is simply getting tired. What's new that hasn't been done and why not put the TV time into talents who are going on the road to help sell live event tickets which has become a challenging market place?

Saw online where on a SHINE Women's event that Ivelisse Velez and Serena Deeb, both former WWE talents, went to a hour draw for Velez's SHINE Championship. To that I say bravo and that fact alone may have me investing some TV time in the SHINE brand. I am a big fan of good, fundamentally sound, women's wrestling and a huge fan of women's MMA. I've always liked the work of both women who went the hour.

Lots of @UFC this weekend that I'm going to enjoy. I always catch myself listening to the announcing more than I likely should but old habits are hard to break. I hear that @brianstann and @Jon_Anik will be working together.

WWE's MITB is a critical show as it will begin to address the vacant WWE World Title which will set the wheels in motion to the march to WM31 in 2015. If that\sounds far fetched then think again. The title is in limbo and needs to be resuscitated and provided a much needed shine. Whoever wins will likely face Brock Lesnar at Summer Slam and based on a poster that was online last week that winner appears to be John Cena even though that could easily change before this Sunday night in Boston. As a matter of fact, it likely will change OR reverse psychology will be used and the game plan will go as apparently planned.

I have no dog in the hunt but I only hope that Sunday doesn't begin a series of WWE World Title changes as that would continue to water down WWE's most viable title especially when, arguably, the other WWE championships are in dire need of some new shine.

Plus, I'm curious as to where Daniel Bryan fits into all this. WWE is negotiating a slippery slope as it relates their WWE World Title and at least a portion of that story will be told this Sunday night.

On Sunday, I see the Rhodes' Brothers in Paint duo winning, Rusev over Big E, Summer Rae over Layla, Usos retain over Harper and Rowan,

The MITB WWE Title bout has numerous "catchers" booked in the match and not an overabundance of "flyers." I'm curious as to how this match will be strategized. I'd bet there will be ample ladder strikes through out the main event. I'd assume that this match will close the show and if I had a vote, that's funny when one thinks about it, I'd kick off the show with the other MITB Ladder match.

The biggest match that WWE can book right now for Summer Slam is Cena vs. Lesnar for the WWE World Title so let's see how that materializes over the next 60 days or so.

It was 16 years ago when Taker tossed Mick Foley off the top of the HIAC in Pittsburgh in one of the most enduring memories of my professional career. There is not a day that goes by on Twitter or the Q&A section of our website that I don't get asked about it. And, no, I had no idea that it was coming. What you heard from me that night was 100% how I felt, reacted and described what I was seeing. For better or for worse, the commentary was real.

I will be watching WWE's MITB as usual and hope that they put together a great show with decisive finishes to a contemporary audience who doesn't embrace lame, disqualification or count out endings. Who is helped with an impotent finish? You got it...no one. The WWE Network has been a great investment and will make amazing holiday gift ideas this year. I'd hope that WWE does a major gift giving opportunity regarding the Network as the holidays approach.

Getting more ROH questions but my basic take on them is this...when Sinclair Broadcasting makes a noticeable commitment to the production of their TV show and the talents are instructed to slow down, SELL, and tell more logical stories they are always going to be considered an enhanced indie promotion that has local local TV. After reading this, if you think that I'm not pulling for ROH then you are as wrong as their production values.

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J.R. @JRsBBQ