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Jim Ross Talks About His Favorite Owen Hart Rib

The Province recently interviewed Jim Ross while he was promoting his one man show at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto, ON tonight at 9:00pm. Here are a couple of highlights:

Who was more ‘over’ at their peak: Junkyard Dog in Mid-South or ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin in WWE:

“It’s hard if you’re quantifying raw numbers to say anyone was more popular at their zenith than ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin. No one sold more merchandise or tickets or pay-per-views than Steve. The thing with JYD was, he was the first African-American No. 1 babyface in a major territory … For black fans especially, he was such a groundbreaking force. There was a unique emotional relationship that Dog had with his audience. He gave a whole race their guy.”

His favorite Owen Hart Rib:

“I was having a long day in my make-shift office at an arena when I was in charge of the talent roster at WWE. I had an extended conversation with someone that was having substance-abuse issues; that was our suspicion. Owen saw that my door had been closed for several hours. (As I headed to the arena to commentate for the TV broadcast), I catch him coming down the hall, stumbling, bouncing off the walls. I get up close to him, he’s got this white substance under his nose like he’s been doing cocaine. Obviously, Owen was not a drug user at all. Long story short, he’d gone to the desert table at catering and got a powdered doughnut, trying to cheer me up and say, ‘You had a rough day. A lot of us are appreciative of what you’re trying to do to help guys.'”

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