Source: PWTorch.com, JR’s Blog

WWE announcer Jim Ross offered his commentary on last night’s Raw after skipping last week’s unmentionable effort and updated his health related to returning to WWE TV in a new blog today on jrsbarbq.com.

Ross suggested Steve Austin and “The Rock” Dwayne Johnson could be in line for future guest hosting roles following Bret Hart’s footsteps.

“I don’t have an answer to that question but I do feel that both men will eventually return to Raw in either the guest G.M. capacity or another role that provides them a “one off’ opportunity to entertain their fans and to promote what it is that they are involved…likely their films,” Ross said.

Johnson said several weeks ago he was working on a project with WWE beyond just guest-hosting an episode of Raw, but Johnson hasn’t added new information since the interview.

From SteveAustinWeb! I hope your holiday is filled with all things wonderful. Happy holidays visitors. Merry Christmas, Steve! Thank you all! I appreciate everything you guys have done for this website!

Source: WrestlingNewsArena.com

LINEUP INCLUDES SEVEN DEBUT SHOWS: “DROP ZONE TV,” “NOSLER’S MAGNUM TV,” “S.W.A.T. MAGAZINE TV,” “TOP TRUCK CHALLENGE,” “WORLD CLASS BOWHUNTING,” “BACKROADS WITH RON & RAVEN” AND “ALASKAN”

TEMECULA, Calif., Dec. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Outdoor Channel (Nasdaq: OUTD), America’s leader in Outdoor TV, today unveiled its action-packed programming schedule for the first quarter of 2010. Seven brand new shows will debut this winter on the network, covering a broad range of popular outdoor themes and featuring expert talent. The new shows are “Drop Zone TV,” “Nosler’s Magnum TV,” “S.W.A.T. Magazine TV,” “Top Truck Challenge,” “World Class Bowhunting,” “Backroads with Ron & Raven” and “Alaskan.”

Drop Zone TV – Debuts Sunday, January 3rd at 11:00 a.m. ET
Get ready, you’re about to enter the “Drop Zone!” Hosted by Hal Shaffer of Outdoor Channel’s “Huntin’ the World…Southern Style” and NASCAR’s Greg Zipadelli, “Drop Zone TV” is a fast paced show with a modern twist, and is bound to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. The list of celebrity guests is long and diverse, including some of NASCAR’s greats, along with the best of the NFL, country music and Major League Baseball. This season, former WWE World Champion, Stone Cold Steve Austin, will be in pursuit of his biggest whitetail ever, while comedian Killer Beaz adds his unique brand of comedy by making side-splitting commentary throughout many episodes of the show.

Click the source link for the entire list.

Source: InsidePulse.com: Wrestling

Hulk Hogan coming to TNA has made every available free agent in wrestling come up in talks of who would appear on the January 4th edition of Impact going live with Raw.

One megastar who has been on the sidelines is Stone Cold Steve Austin, who has made few WWE TV appearances in recent years. There has been speculation that if his longtime friend Jim Ross were somehow ousted from WWE and end up in TNA, that Austin could conceivably do the same.

This is apparently not possible, as Austin is under what’s described as a “high money” contract with WWE with no particular role attached. The thinking from the WWE camp is that if they pay Austin, even just to sit at home and collect merchandise royalties, it is worth the investment.

Happy 45th birthday, Steve! I hope your day is a fun-filled one!

Source: JR’s Blog

JR Wrote:

Steve Austin will finish filming his latest film this week in Vancouver and I know Steve is looking forward to some R&R on his Texas ranch in the coming weeks. The Mrs and I hope to hook up with Steve after the holidays if schedules permit. Steve is really stoked about this soon to be finished film that has been shot largely outdoors in the mountains and woods near Vancouver.

2000 A&E biography on Steve Austin, Stone Cold Steve Austin – Lord of the Ring

If you can’t watch it, click here.

Enjoy!

Source: PWTorch.com

Wade Keller: You mentioned Steve Austin earlier. I think that’s a good example where there’s two sides to stories. The anti-Bischoff side got a lot of publicity while you were busy running the company. In your book you gave your side of a lot of things. I did the “Torch Talk” with Steve Austin after he left WCW, right before he signed with the WWF, and he said he couldn’t believe you fired him over the phone or didn’t bring him into the office and was very upset. You provided a pretty compelling second side to it, which is him telling his wife when you called, “Tell him I’m not home.” And you overheard that. I think a lot of people sympathized with your decision to pull the trigger on him at that point because he wasn’t, in your mind, in any position to be that unprofessional. That acknowledged, that there were two sides to it, do you think look back and think you still should have maybe recognized what a lot of people had been writing for a couple of years, what a lot of his colleagues thought for a couple of years, which is he could be the next big thing. Because I think in your book you probably understated how many people recognized him in that year before he was fired by you – a lot of people were saying “he has it, he has that It Factor.” He’s not quite focused on what he’s going to become to be a top star, but he’s headed that direction. When you look back do you think maybe you should have seen that a little more?

Eric Bischoff: I don’t know who all those people were, Wade? Nobody was coming to me with that point of view. Nobody pulled me aside and said, “Hey, Eric, I think you’re making a mistake. I think this guy has that It-Factor. I think he could be the Next Big Thing. Maybe people that were reading your sheets and your audience were saying that.

Keller: It was a limited number of people, but it was definitely being written about. But also, I really think colleagues, other wrestlers were saying that. I thought it was pretty commonly thought that he was among the top draft picks if you were planning three-to-five years down the road.

Bischoff: Like I said, I didn’t look to the Torch or the Wrestling Observer to kind of base my futures decisions on, number one. Number two, if there were any of his colleagues or Dusty Rhodes or whoever it was that was around me at the time, certainly none of those people pulled me aside and said, “Look, I think you’re underestimating this guy or undervaluing him.” I think, again, going back. Now we’re going back 15 years, not 10, but I had always liked “Stunning” Steve. I always got along with him. We weren’t beer drinking buddies or any of that kind of stuff; we hadn’t gone hunting and fishing together. But we were friendly and got along great. We got along great when I was an announcer at WCW. We’re probably more alike than we are not in terms of people. We’re both pretty direct, we both like to hunt and fish, we both like to drink beer. We’re kind of both rednecks. I’m standing on my deck looking out at the Rocky Mountains right now because I like to be here to hunt and fish. There’s not a lot of chemistry differences between Steve and I. So we got along fine, but going back 15 years ago, this was a guy who, he and Brian Pillman were great as The Hollywood Blondes, a great tag team. But Steve was struggling with injuries. He had some pretty severe injuries at the time. His character, we kept trying a few different things and he kept experimenting and nothing was really clicking. After I fired him, he went to WWE and it took a while to find anything that clicked. Anybody that tells me they had this crystal ball and knew that Steve Austin was going to become Stone Cold in 1997 or 1998 after I fired him in nineteen-ninety-whatever, they’re full of sh–. It’s easy to look back and say, “Aw, I told you so!” But this is a guy that had been in the business for a long time, he had struggled with a lot of different characters, he had reached a good level of success, but he wasn’t knocking super-stardom’s door in WCW or in WWE until after the Nitro era opened the door for him to become an entirely different character than he had ever been before.

More of the interview tomorrow from PWTorch.com!

Source: ScreenDaily.com

Anchor Bay Films has acquired US, UK and Australian rights to the next ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin action feature, Hunt To Kill (H2K).

Principal photography started in Vancouver this month on the project about a former border patrol agent and his daughter who are taken hostage and forced to lead their captors through a forest in pursuit of millions of dollars.

Keoni Waxman is directing and Jack Nasser of NGN produces.

CEO Tim Brown of sales agency Joker Films Inc brokered the deal with Kevin Kasha and Richard Turner of Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Source: PWTorch.com

Stone Cold Steve Austin is still under contract to World Wrestling Entertainment, which should put an end to the speculation that me may join TNA.

Spike TV were reportedly interested in featuring Austin in a non-wrestling project a few years ago, considering their network is geared towards men.

In response to this, WWE offered him a lucrative contract to not work for the USA Network competitor. New Austin merchandise is also allowed to be sold by WWE as part of the agreement.