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How good does the quality have to be?

I stopped watching partway through. About the time of the Cutting Edge. I had it on my HTS speakers, so I heard the brilliant promo. It just wasn't enough t oget me to tune back in, no matter how brilliant it was.

If this is what the Attitude Era was about, it's a wonder it made it to 4.0 ratings, let alone the records it set, because the idea is to hype people up for the second hour, not to make them turn away.

Transcript
 

Since WWE will inevitably take that down from YouTube, here's a transcript:

You want to apologize. Like nothing happened. Like you didn't knock me on my ass in front of millions of people worldwide. And I'm going to come down there and work with you. I'm not coming back. And now - thanks to the magic of live television - I'm going to show the whole world why, for seven years in ECW, I was the unscripted, uncensored loose cannon of commentary!

Six months ago WWE called ME! I didn't call this company because I was looking for a job. I didn't need a job. WWE called me because they had humiliated and fired (AGAIN) Jim Ross! So I get JR's spot. And from week one, week after week, I got an ongoing lecture on the differences in professional wrestling...and sports-entertainment.

I'm not allowed to say "pro wrestling." I'm not allowed to say "wrestler." I have to say "sports-entertainment." And refer to the wrestlers as..."superstars." I'm told to deliberately ignore the moves and the holds during the matches so I can tell stories. Well, ignoring the moves and the holds is DAMN INSULTING to the athletes - the WRESTLERS, not the "entertainers" - who leave their families three hundred days a year to ply their craft in that ring.

There's the best part. Because I'm not a "sports-entertainment storyteller, I get pulled from WrestleMania. And the reason I'm given is is because I don't sound like Jim Ross...who's the guy they fired in the first place! That makes sense, right? So I swallowed the bitter pill. I'm a company guy. I get bumped from WrestleMania. Then I get bumped...from BACKLASH? I'm not good enough to call BACKLASH?!?

In ECW, I called live pay-per-views on my own. Solo. No color commentators dragging me down. Wasn't done before me, hasn't been done since! But I'm not good enough to call Backlash because I'm not a "sports-entertainment storyteller."

Well, you know what? I am sick of sports-entertainment. I am sick of male cheerleaders. I am sick of boogers and bathroom humor and semen and I am sick of our Chairman. Who likes to talk about his own semen. He mocks God. He mocks GOD! And makes out with the Divas. All to feed his own insatiable ego. I am sick of sports-entertainment.

And most of all, I'm sick of you fans who actually buy into that crap! This sports-entertainment circus! I never needed this job. And I don't want this job anymore.

[He pulls the WWE logo cube off the microphone he's holding and tosses it disdainfully to the ground.]

I QUIT!

Beautiful.