10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (May 10)
3. Sneezing Meant Jim Ross Missed The 'Curtain Call'
As if Conrad Thompson needed another kick-ass podcast. The Starrcast guru added to pods with Bruce Prichard, Eric Bischoff and Tony Schiavone by debuting his new 'Grilling JR' show with Jim Ross a few weeks ago. On the latest episode, the pair looked at the now-iconic 'Curtain Call' incident from 1996.
JR wasn't there.
Confused? Don't be. Although Ross wasn't in attendance at Madison Square Garden that night, he was originally supposed to be. He'd worked a 10-hour day at WWF HQ before Vince McMahon asked if he'd like to attend the bigger house shows as well as the smaller ones. Jim, who was struggling through the flu, said he didn't know he was supposed to attend but he'd be there.
When he turned up to the building, McMahon was disgusted by his sneezing and sent Ross home; JR repeated the old 'Vince hates sneezing' on the podcast, then told how his snottery ways stopped him from seeing the unplanned hug between Triple H, Shawn Michaels and the outgoing Kevin Nash and Scott Hall.