J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q

Greetings from under the custom made, black hat from your resident Okie coming off another Summerslam pay per view while preparing for Unforgiven in about three weeks in Cleveland.

BBQ’ed thoughts from hither and yon….

Great wrestling matches start with the combatant’s in ring effort and for there to be a clearly defined reason for competing with one another. With that said, the Hell in a Cell match at Summerslam delivered the goods. I loved the physicality and the pacing of the contest. The Undertaker is as dominate as ever and an argument can certainly be made that The Undertaker is the greatest WWE Superstar of all time based on productive longevity. Edge is allegedly recuperating in his fireside condo in Hell but more info on the status of the “R Rated Superstar” will be provided on Friday Night Smackdown.

I read where some “blue suit wearing executive” of this fine organization declared that Monday Night Raw was the top TV program in the WWE and not Friday Night Smackdown. An interesting observation that won’t endear this fellow to Tazz, not that any one I know has endeared themselves to my broadcast colleague outside of his immediate family.  This executive must have gotten his info from Mike Adamle, Raw General Manager who took numerous shots to the head in his illustrious NFL career.

Friday Night Smackdown emanates this week from the Quad Cities an area still recovering from the unbelievable floods of earlier this year.  Hopefully the

WWE was able to bring some needed entertainment to the area on Tuesday night. But I did not get to make it to the John Deere Steakhouse as I had planned but others did and raved about it. I dropped a few bucks in a Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament while in town and had to watch my spending.

Unlike Raw, who simply named their entrants to the “Championship Scramble” to be held at Unforgiven, the 4 challengers to HHH’s WWE Title in this format will be determined by competition in the ring. All 4 contenders will be determined on this week’s Friday Night Smackdown broadcast.

Did you know that with balladeer Johnny Cash now deceased that WWE Dot Com guru, Dr. Joe E. Styles, is now the leading candidate to be named by a popular periodical the most famous person in the world who wears black attire on a daily basis? 

Chris Jericho may be on the cusp of replacing fellow native Canadian Edge as the most disliked Superstar in the WWE after Jericho inadvertently struck HBK’s lovely wife Rebecca Sunday at Summerslam. I think both Jericho and Michaels should be traded to Friday Night Smackdown and commence to settling this issue in the ring. What about a former wedding planner and a wrestler to be named later? Plus, a case of J.R.’s BBQ Sauce! And 97% fat free beef jerky! This could be bigger than the Jets signing QB Brett Favre!

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