Jim Ross: Still Loves BBQ, Still Loves Wrestling

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Jim Ross is back on the blog attack and for once, he has an interesting story to tell about his BBQ sauce.  Good ole J.R. will make an appearance on the Food Network, hawking sauce and bringing along a few of his WWE cohorts as well.

I arrived in LA at 5 pm on Saturday and headed to the downtown Sheraton Hotel which served as HQ for the weekend. After a challenging week multi tasking, I was beat when I arrived at the hotel  and actually was in bed asleep Saturday night at 8:30 pm Pacific time. Of course, I had a 5 a.m. wake up call Sunday morning to be ready to roll tape at approximately 6 a.m. for the Food Network's "Dinner Impossible" program that will air, as I understand it, in November. I will keep every one posted as to the exact date. I had a great time stepping sort of out of the wrestling world and was assigned to make multiple gallons of BBQ Sauce which I did and  that everyone seemed to love. The Miz was a riot on this shoot and we were also joined later in the morning by Gail Kim who sure looks nice in a kitchen and I mean that in a positive way. Stephanie McMahon and The Big Show also joined in the non kitchen festivites so WWE was well represented. Chef Robert Irvine is a hoot to work with and is a former cook with the British Royal Navy. 

He had some thoughts on SummerSlam as well...

Like everyone else, he was blown away by Jeff Hardy's PPV swan song.

Jeff Hardy vs. C.M. Punk....WOW! TLC matches are all about the risks, car crashes, and "Holy S**T" moments that so many fans feed off of during these bouts that have no pinfalls,etc.  As I was visiting with Todd Grisham on our way to Phoenix from LA  late Sunday night, I discussed with him that wrestling bouts that eliminate pins, submissions, count outs and disqualifications make them more one dimensional  and make the high risk stuff the star of the show. This match was tremendous and if you could have been sitting at ringside as we were you could not have helped but feel the angst and element of profound danger that Jeff and Punk put themselves in on multiple occasions during this World Title Bout. 

It's interesting what a great job the WWE team did taking the focus off of Hardy and putting it onto Punk's feud with the Undertaker, only to throw it all out the window for one final match.  Expect an Undertaker run-in on Smackdown (not a spoiler as I haven't read the results).