03:11:04
JIM ROSS
On
the rumors of Brock Lesnar leaving WWE after Wrestlemania
XX to pursue a career in the NFL...
"Well,
I don't think any decision of that nature has or can be
made until after Wrestlemania and certainly we have, on
a personal level, have a great deal of respect for Brock.
I like him. You
know, Gerry Briscoe led the way in recruiting Brock from
the University of Minnesota. I met Brock his junior year
and started a dialogue with him at that time, his junior
year in college.
We
earmarked him as one of our top priorities to recruit. He
decided he didn't want to wait around for the Olympics,
so we got him signed. I've
been very pleased with his progress and so whatever decision
Brock may or may not make, is certainly one that we're going
to support.
And I know that if you'd talk to Brock he would want to
say, 'look, I'm gonna focus on wrestling Bill Goldberg.
With Stone Cold as referee. We want to steal the show, whether
it's my first match--last match, last match for a month,
last month for a year, last match forever, or I'll see you
Tuesday night on Smackdown.'
I
think he's such a strong personality and such a competitor,
he doesn't want to do anything but steal the show on Sunday.
So,
yeah--we'll cross the Brock Lesnar bridge when we get to
it, but we're not there and I'd said about as much about
it as I'd like tooand the focus for me, Brian, is to stay
positive and look at the glass as being half-full.
And some of the internet BS is just--I read on the internet
this week that I broke up a fight, in my locker room Tuesday
in Atlantic City."...
I
read that too, a catfight, wasn't it??
"Yeah,
it never happened. There was never, ever anything other
than a heated conversation. And big deal. You guys ever
have a heated conversation with somebody at the radio station?
Did
it spill into the control room and the general manager or
program director had to run in and seperate you guys and
then it made the radio internet the next day? Probably not.
But
the issue is, sometimes in all the best intentions of a
lot of good people who work in the wrestling media, that
are doing the internet sites--and they're not all bad people,
by any stretch. But they get misinformation, they get led
along by people who are quote/unquote "on the inside"
that have an insatiable desire to provide rumor and innuendo
and of course, with just a little bit of embellishment.
And
that little bit of embellishment often times takes a story
that had a basis of truth into something that is absurd.
The absurdity of this particular illustration is that I
had two divas that were allegedly in a big fight and they
fought all the way down the hall and right into my--conveniently,
right into my office and I conveniently was not doing anything
and I conveniently broke up the fight. Ridiculous. And it
didn't happen. It is absolutely untrue. We
had a disagreement, a philosophical disagreement--and my
God, I deal with ten of those a day. So, big deal. It just
goes along with the territory.
So, can't believe everything on the internet and the Brock
Lesnar story will work it's way out and we're looking at
coming out of Wrestlemania with great momentum and long
term plans that I've seen--I'm as excited about our long
term creative plans as I have been in many years."
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