I am looking forward to the Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC that will air Saturday Aug. 2 in prime time and will be taped prior to Monday Night Raw in Washington D.C. I'll have to set two alarms to make sure I don't miss my early morning flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas-Fort Worth to Washington D.C. It will be a long day, but it will be fun working with The King again and then being able to relax and watch Raw.

Our second J.R.'s Family Bar-B-Q Restauarant is doing super after opening on July 16. Our original place in Norman still rocks  and has overachieved since day one. We have a great team that makes all these barbecue dreams come true. Soon, we will be able to respond to your Q&A's on our Web site, which is undergoing a facelift (no jokes please) at www.jrsbarbq.com.

We have some great buys on shirts and caps for less than $10 and some clearance-priced beef jerky, too. Check them out when you have a moment. 

Friday Night SmackDown is really getting interesting and I'm  having fun working with my old pal Mick Foley. I don't know if announcing will ever replace the thrills and fun Mick had inside the ring, but I hope he sticks with annoucning for the forseeable future. We feel we are the top annoucing duo in the biz. That's our story and, of course, we are sticking to it.

The return of The Undertaker has many of us anxiously awaiting the return of The Deadman. Perhaps Edge isn't in that "anxiously awaitng list," but that's no revelation. Taker is already a WWE HOF'er in my eyes and his induction someday into the WWE Hall of Fame is a mere formality.

Good to see Shelton Benjamin taking great pride in being the United States Champion. As a kid growing up in South Carolina, the U.S. Title was a staple in the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling territory, which regularly had live events in the Carolinas, Benjamin can be as good as he chooses to be. Shelton has some amazing physical gifts that most athletes would kill for. One of the great WWE Superstars of yesteryear, the late BoBo Brazil, a WWE HOF'er, was once the U.S. Champion. I would love for men like Bobo and the late Ernie Ladd to be able to take a long car trip with Shelton and allow the U.S. Champ to sit under their impressive learning trees, because those two amazing gentlemen could see "main events" written all over the former collegiate wrestling and track star.  

Rumor has it that Raw will be getting a new General Manager soon and perhaps as early as this Monday night in D.C. That would not surprise me as that brand has been rolling somewhat out of control the past few weeks, which I can tell you has made my former broadcast partner uneasy. I have heard some amazing names mentioned as potential G.M.'s for Raw, some so extraordinary that I won't even mention them here for fear I might get laughed off WWE.com. All I can say is stay tuned because from what I hear, business is going to pick up big time on Monday Night Raw "Sooner" than later.

If chosen, I will not serve. (That's an attempt at humor.) 

Keep an eye on The Brian Kendrick as this young Superstar has designs on being in SmackDown main events in the near future. Kendrick has a great "wrestling mind" and is a true student of the game. Don't be like a sheep and be mislead about Kendrick's perceived lack of size as leverage, technique and three seconds is all it takes to win most any match. 

Look for Triple H to chop away at the legs of the 7-foot-2 Great Khali in the WWE Title Bout at the 20th Annual SummerSlam. For Triple H to successfully defend his WWE Title, The Game must destroy Khali's vertical base ... because as long as Khali is vertical, he is one unpredictable and dangerous hombre. However, Khali would be even more idolized in his homeland of India if he were to win the coveted WWE Title.

Yours truly is a big football fan as many of you know, but lately I have started watching the MMA fights on TV. I like MMA and look forward to seeing former WWE Champ Brock Lesnar in what looks to be a must-win situation fight in August from his hometown of Minneapolis. Brock has an opportunity to be one of the mainstays in MMA, but after losing his much-hyped debut, the former NCAA National Champion needs to win this, his 2nd pro MMA fight. 

Edge doing Slim Jim commercials and John Cena doing Gillette Fusion commercials not only creates great paydays for the Superstars, but allows them the opportunity to reach a new audience. I like a Slim Jim occasionally, but I am more partial to J.R.'s Beef Jerky which is 97% fat-free. 

I am a Brett Favre fan, and I would bet my bottom dollar that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will make sure that Bret plays for someone this season. Favre equals TV ratings and the NFL is a TV friendly sporting event that funds itself largely thru their TV revenues.

We got a cool gift from Tazz recently, a pair of his wrestling boots, orange and black singlet, and one of his signature towels to display in our of our restaurants. My personal thanks to the "Human Suplex Machine" who I had a great time a few years back broadcasting a "Royal Rumble."

Did you know that ... WWE.com guru Joe E. Styles is a barbecue lover? Strange but true as the Connecticut native worked and lived for a time in Atlanta where there is no shortage of excellent "Q." Joe E. and I talk barbecye on a regular basis and our last conversation concerned our smoked chicken wings.

Is it just me or would a well matched, 2-out-of-3 Falls Match be a heck of a TV main event on one of the WWE's broadcasts?

Remember the 2-out-of-3 Falls Match that HHH had with Stone Cold a few years ago? Back in the day, 2-out-of-3 Falls bouts were the order of the day, and the wrestlers even left the ring and returned to their locker rooms between falls so the promoters could sell more programs and hot dogs.

I read a nice article on one of the great managers and one of the strongest men to ever lace his boots, General Scandar Akbar, recently in the Tulsa World newspaper. Ak is now 73 years young and was one of my early mentors. He taught me never to be late for a booking, that it wasn't what I made but what I saved, and to always keep one's word in a business that wasn't long on truthful people. Akbar, given his ring name by Fritz Von Erich, played high school football in Vernon, Texas and whose elders came to America from Lebanon to make a better life for themselves and their family. If I had a vote, I would have no problem voting for General Scandar Akbar to be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009 in Houston.

This sort of blogging is new to me, but I enjoy communicating with you and hope you will check out our space from time to time and be sure and tell a friend about it. Who knows, some day it may do so well that I might get a little extra cheese on my burger inside the old pay envelope. :)

Take care and count your blessings. Boomer Sooner! J.R.