Ross mentioned that Watts was "cantankerous" during the interview so we'll see.

as opposed to non-cantankerous moments with Bill Watts.

 

So, if Watts just steamrolls over the usual JR schtick, the interview will be better, right?

 

I'd have no problem with that at all......

Watts talking old school....great.

Watts talking modern stuff , especially about Cena , stinks.

Oh this oughta be something . Next show is Ross and Meltzer doing a Night of Champions talk recorded right after the PPV ends, apparently .

 

Hoo Hoo ,They're ripping us off, Robin...I mean Will.

Watts talking old school....great.

Watts talking modern stuff , especially about Cena , stinks.

He probably has a solid point about selling, but I don't know if there's a solution to the problem he's speaking about. Although the inspiration of his complaints is the NBC Wrestlemania special. Essentially a few steps above finding WWE matches on YouTube and commenting on them without knowing of the build to the match.

 

How many matches, aired months afterward, will tell a story to someone unfamiliar with the product. That skews things a bit as well. So yeah, they could probably do a better job at some elements of match layout, but the solution to that problem is probably unknown.

 

It seemed less annoying than JR's usual complaints. Granted, if Watts had a podcast and kept hitting various topics over and over and killed them to death, that could change.

 

Bill Watts is probably a better presenter of ideas/philosophies than Jim Ross if we're comparing them here. Although i'd imagine a lot of the JR stuff is essentially 2nd generation Watts stuff though. So obviously 1st gen tops 2nd gen in the scheme of things.

 

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So, add Watts to the club of people who will insist they wanted to run head to head TV with the WWF before Bischoff pulled it off?

I love how Watts just keeps on bloviating over JR whenever JR tries to butt in with his usual bloviation.

 

It sucks that people like Watts end up on JR's podcast instead of Austin's.

Watts on Austin's podcast would involve Watts trying to figure out how Austin watched more of the Mid-South/UWF B-Show than the A-Show. Then there'd be a bunch of Dick Slater stories.

Oh this oughta be something . Next show is Ross and Meltzer doing a Night of Champions talk recorded right after the PPV ends, apparently .

Hoo Hoo ,They're ripping us off, Robin...I mean Will.

Did this happen? I'm kind of morbidly curious to hear it, if so.

 

Oh this oughta be something . Next show is Ross and Meltzer doing a Night of Champions talk recorded right after the PPV ends, apparently .

Hoo Hoo ,They're ripping us off, Robin...I mean Will.

Did this happen? I'm kind of morbidly curious to hear it, if so.

It's up now on my feed. I'll be listening to it tomorrow.

I enjoy listening to Meltzer so I downloaded this one for the gym this morning. If you fast forward through Ross's rants its not bad.

Ross has gotten better. This was a fun listen. Next week is Magnum TA.

the more time Ross and TA spend on the TA/Wrestling 2 feud and the less they spend on "the modern product"... the better

Good interview with Magnum today. Someone must have talked to Ross because he has been consistently better the past few podcasts. Very good talk. I didn't realize Magnum's career was only 6 years.

Throw me in the Ross has gotten much better camp. I have enjoyed the last 5 or 6 shows. I think Ross is finding his rhythm and is fully aware that he was coming off as a cranky old man in some of the earlier shows.

Seems to me like Ross has gotten a whole lot better while Austin has really gone off the boil in the past couple of months.

I've been listening to some recent Ross Reports and he has improved. But I had to turn this week's episode off halfway through and it wasn't because of Ross.

 

From here on out I will never listen to a podcast with "former WWE Creative Writer so and so" ever again. This Greenfield guy is such a suck-up to the marks tool. No wonder most wrestlers hate these assholes.

Alex definitely lurches towards what's popular 2-3 years ago was SHIMMER now it is New Japan.

Just got into the Tony Schiavone interview last night and really liked it. I had kind of a sour opinion of him previously because of little things I'd heard in other shoots and of course the over-exposure he had for being the voice of WCW when they started to crumble. But he came across as very human and likable, qualities I thought were just part of his on-screen persona. Him describing leaving WWF and going back to Jim Herd's WCW is as exactly bad as I'd imagine as it was for him.

Bob Holly is the latest guest. I wonder how that is. Holly's book was far and away the best wrestling book in many years.

He's usually a great interview. Was great with Dave/Bryan, as well as Wade/Bruce.

The show with X Pac was really, really good. He's totally clean and sober, completely honest and open, and really knowledgeable. And no matter how you feel about the Kliq and shit that happened a long time ago, hearing that story about when he tried to kill himself in Mexico, and Nash went down there to basically rescue him is a really heart warming example of friendship.

I'm not sure what to think about this.

 

I'm not going to get upset with Jim Ross over that. I think it's obviously lost some context which would seem to be "Vince McMahon doesn't think Asian women are attractive/that regular American dudes think Asian women are attractive" I mean how ELSE do you try to appeal to him in that situation?

 

I guess he could have called Vince out for being racist but I don't think it would have gotten Gail Kim hired.

Not blaming Ross there at all. I think it's tremendous that Ross, who knows Vince quite well, had to explain it with a porn analogy so Vince could understand.

I'm not sure what to think about this.

 

 

Vince does not go online much.

Vince's reaction is pretty damn hilarious.