Episode 340: The 2003 Rebuilding Of The WWE Roster

Grilling JR

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Sports, Wrestling

4.7 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Grilling JR, “The Voice of Wrestling” Jim Ross and host Conrad Thompson take us back to Judgment Day 2003! With the WWE adjusting to life without Stone Cold Steve Austin as an active member of the roster, JR reflects on what it was like to help steer the company through this major transition. Hear his firsthand stories and insights from this pivotal time in wrestling history on Grilling JR!

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0:00.0	SavewithConrad.com.
0:03.0	My name is Darrell.
0:05.0	I came from Massachusetts and I moved to Wisconsin.
0:09.0	There's a lot of people that might be asking, why go with Conrad?
0:12.0	Why go with Supreme Lending?
0:14.0	And let me tell you something, brother.
0:17.0	I think about the credentials, the tag team partner that I'd be working with.
0:22.2	First of all, we got the podfather himself, Conrad.
0:25.7	How can you go wrong with that?
0:27.3	And then also go on to save witherick.com, which, you know, who else could have kicked Vince's ass for 83 consecutive weeks?
0:37.4	You can't beat that duel right there, but they did bring a secret weapon.
0:41.2	And I didn't realize this because this was not advertised.
0:43.9	I worked closely with Larry the Axe Thompson.
0:47.3	And let me tell you, with all the stress with moving across the country, with the large family that I have,
0:53.4	it was reassuring to know that I
0:56.1	had the enforcer at my back, handling questions from the other side of sellers. The other side
1:03.7	with trying to find the right prices. He took care of all that. All I had to do was keep my eye
1:09.3	on the prize and make it there to Wisconsin.
1:12.5	They were absolutely fantastic. They checked in on me, especially Francis. Very patient with me.
1:18.8	I don't go through this process all the time, so I trusted the experts. I was able to call them.
1:24.5	They called me if they had questions and it felt like it was a personal arrangement.
1:29.4	There was even a point in which, from the seller's side, they wanted something else that wasn't part of the norm.
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