While Jim Ross recently said in his blog that February 10th Smackdown tapings were a double header, that is incorrect. With the No Way Out PPV being held on February 15th, the tapings on the 10th will be a ECW and Smackdown taping. The February 17th tapings in Portland, Oregon will be a double taping.
Jim Ross has posted his latest blog entry, which you can check out at JRsBarBQ.com. We had posted earlier some of the items he mentioned about Ric Flair's WWE return. Here is what he said about the UFC Vaseline scandal:
UFC's Vaseline Scandal: My GSP over B.J. Penn prediction was on the money and all seemed well in UFC land until the feared and deadly term Vaseline was uttered after the fight. Allegedly, someone in St. Pierre's corner "greased" GSP down specifically on his chest and back which could obviously impact a fight. From what I have seen, the Vaseline issue is a mute point as GSP dominated the fight. However, the UFC has an unwanted and unneeded controversy on their hands. The UFC is a new sports league and unlike any other new sports league they are going to be faced with situations like this that are going to arise and that they will have to address in a succinct and non knee jerk fashion. The corner men, if proved guilty, must be punished but is that a life time ban? Certainly not in my mind but this infraction wouldn't be a slap on the wrist either. The officiating and the judging in the UFC will continue to evolve one has to assume and the refereeing is an area that I have mentioned before that needs to have a strong internal training regime in place all the while training new referees for the future. The same small handful of ref's handling the majority of the fights doesn't seem prudent to me. Every pro league has a through training program for it's Ref's and the UFC shouldn't be any different.