WWE Raw, 1996

Jim Ross:
In just a couple of minutes, I'm going to bring Big Daddy Cool, Diesel and Razor Ramon right out here. But before I do, I'd like to beg your indulgence for just a minute and tell you something I got on my mind. There's something I've been wanting to say for a long long time. And when I'm through telling you, many of you are going to question my loyalty to the World Wrestling Federation so let's clear that up right now. I have no loyalty to the World Wrestling Federation, I only got loyalty to good ol' J.R. and let me tell you why. In 1993, I left a great job in Atlanta Georgia and I left the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League to go to the recognized leader of sports entertainment, the WWF. I came here to be the primary play by play man in the WWF. I don't think anybody here is going to disagree that I am the best play by play man in the whole damn business! So I show up for work the first day at WrestleMania IX in Las Vegas Nevada and they give me a sheet to wear. They said, "Oh it's going to be a toga. You'll look good in a toga J.R." I leave the National Football League for a toga. It's crap! And then ladies and gentlemen, I go to the first King of the Ring in Dayton, Ohio and I guarantee you, you listen to that broadcast, I carried the broadcast from ringside. And then did you ever wonder where ol J.R. went to? Why doesn't ol J.R. do play by play anymore? Let me tell you why because the egotistical owner of the World Wrestling Federation and you know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about Vince McMahon couldn't stand the competition. So J.R. disappeared. And then on Super Bowl Sunday of 1994, I woke up with an affliction called Bell's Palsy and my entire left side of my face looked like it had a stroke. You think I like that? You think I like that my left eye doesn't open all the way because I got sick? Well let me tell you how warm-hearted Mr. McMahon is. Mr. McMahon called me into his office on February 11th 1994 and he fired my ass! So I get back in my car and I drive into my home in that overpriced hellhole Connecticut, and I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to tell my wife and my two little girls that their daddy had just got fired. And so then remember when McMahon got indicted? They needed somebody to come back and do Raw? They called up J.R. and then they let me go again. So finally they called me back, hired me back for fifty cents on the dollar to come back and work for the front office. Do you think that all these guys leaving the WWF was an accident? Hell no it's not! You think all these guys coming here was an accident? Absolutely not, I've been very busy. And right now, I want to bring back one of your favorites. He's the Bad Guy, Razor Ramon!