Jim Ross is back with a new blog entry as well as a Q&A session. The blog can be read here, while the Q&A is located here. Here are some portions below:
- On the passing of Don Curtis: Wrestling lost one of its classiest and toughest competitors this week with the passing of Don Curtis. Don was a great collegiate wrestler and football player and is one of the very few men I have never heard his peers say one negative word about. In the wrestling business that is virtually impossibility, with all the jealousy and insecurities that often times exist in the old locker room. Don and Mark Lewin made a superb tag team and Don eventually became Eddie Graham's promoter in Jacksonville for many years. Don was a bona fide credit to the business and if wrestling had more men in it like Don Curtis it would be much better off.
- JR's Pet Peeve of the Week: No time limits for the vast majority of wrestling matches. Time limits make the sports entertainment presentations have a little more "sport" to them and add to the sense of urgency. Point made…soapbox stored.
- On Training: I get asked questions all the time from wannabe wrestlers about how to go about training. There are several good schools that offer legit training, but one suggestion is to investigate www.OVWrestling.com and contact Danny Davis in Louisville. Danny is producing two TV shows a week in addition to all the in ring training and Davis is one of the best, most honest guys around.
- On Matt Cappotelli's WWE Status: Matt is still on the WWE payroll and is apparently still recovering from his cancer surgery. Matt is a battler and has attacked this terrible disease in the bravest and most admirable way.
- On the future of male wrestlers in the business: I assume that is possible but they also might find some future managers from their crop of wrestlers currently training in Florida as more of those prospects will not make it as wrestlers than will.
