Respect for J.R.?
 

I know this isn't a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but could they treat Jim Ross any shittier? IMO, he's been the most loyal guy in the history of the company, second only maybe to Taker, and they don't treat him with the same loyalty or respect. Dick move WWE, dick move.

Not sure what the point in removing minor details like that is anyway

Well, it's pretty blatantly obvious he'll probably (and regrettably) never be a part of a WWE broadcast again. I believe Vince and company probably still have a tremendous amount of respect for all the time, energy, emotion and what-have-you, into the business for 16+ years. Basically, it boils down to the fact that J.R. isn't going to be around anymore, so why not make the WWE sign-on a little more relevant with sound bites from guys who have taken over since (Striker, Cole, Grisham, etc.)?

Just my opinion. But as I said before, I have my doubts that any of this has anything to do with respecting or disrespecting J.R.

Yes, make the intro that contains clips of wrestling 50+ years old and flashes through the entire WWE history more "relevant" to today

How dare they change things!

JR is gone? :(

when i think of the WWF and remember things about it his voice is almost always accompanying it. bleh

Yeah, nobody else really noticed, either.

I'm not surprised. WWE in general and Vince in perticular have never given JR the respect he deserves. Ya, they but him in the hall of fame, right there with Pete Rose, but other then that they've done nothing but shit on this man. Bunch of pricks if you ask me.

JR was gold for like 20 + years.

They took out JR and added Gorgeous George, Blassie, Cole and Cena.

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To be honest, I didn't even notice they took JR out. He is my all time favorite announcer, but WWE is usually changing their beginning videos or raw/smackdown openings. I still don't know why they can't leave Hogan in the opening in some way. He doesn't have to talk, but I mean he did alot more than Gorgeous George and Buddy Rogers. Cena was already in the package they just added the champ is here. I liked that. Cole is actually my favorite of the announcers right now. King is great, but he's not the color commentator he used to be. Don't even get me started on Striker and Grisham. I can't stand either. Striker is always messing up facts. Yes, JR has too, but Striker messes up alot and I hate how he cheers Cody Rhodes so much after getting beaten up by him and Husky Harris.

"As gawd is mah witness,he is broken in half!"Austin got mcmahon!Austin got mcmahon!" Nuff said....Respect the sooner.

I notice they took out Taker's voice, too.

Ross was reportedly removed from the opening video montage as punishment for appearing on camera at UFC’s 116 pay-per-view event in Las Vegas two weeks ago. Ross was interviewed on camera by Ariel Helwani of AOL Fanhouse following Brock Lesnar’s victory over Shane Carwin.

While Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg and Paul Heyman were interviewed as well, Ross is the only one currently under contract to WWE and thus decision was made to make an example out of him.


seriously ?

Jesus. "HOW DARE HE ACTUALLY WATCH A REAL SPORTING EVENT? AND LIVE, OF ALL THINGS?! THAT'S IT, WE'RE TAKING HIS VOICE-OVERS OUT OF THE INTRO PACKAGE! :mad:"

Guess it was a case of Vince being Vince and a major dick.

and to think he could have went to tna and maby have some power over there instead of being vinces joke.

Are you retarded? He's in WWE because he wants to be.

yea he likes being vinces joke 1 angle had a doctor pulling jr's head out of vinces ass, then another angle had jr joining the kiss my ass club, then there was the whole suprise move jr to smackdown thing. i guess jr likes being treated like a joke good on him.

Or maybe he doesn't think its as big a deal as you all are making it out to be? Just a thought.

NO RESPECT FOR TAKER?????

Does that mean Vince hates himself? I mean, he's been beaten with portapotties, hit in the balls, gangraped by the Harts....

I'm kinda ticked they took out the ending with Triple H holding the attitude era WWF title and WHC.

couldn't care less.....

J.R. sneezed in front of Vince.

Not that this is a big deal but it gives me another reason to respect the WWE company less. If this is true then the WWE have some ridiculous employee regulations, fucking assholes.

JR is clearly in the doghouse...

So I can't wait for him to take Henry's spot and win MITB.

No respect for JR? No love for the Taker's quote?
Well first off they have Taker's gong in there, so it's not like he's cut out.

Secondly- what about the love for Freddie Blassie, or George? JR was awesome, but didn't have the same impact as Blassie and George.
Personally I want to see Sunny in that video one day. Just a voice over with the diva's champ at the time of her saying "I know you want me."

Not even trying to "bash Cole" here, but he definitely fucks the the flow of the audio.

Thought I would summerise the changes:

1) That "Freddie Blassie, maker of Champions" bit was already in there, just not as clearly.
2) Hogan's "Hulkamania is runnin' wild..." has been removed. Happened when he signed for TNA though.
3) MDM's "Everyone's got a price" replaces Taker's "Rest In Peace"
4) Cole's "Ladies and gentlemen, it is electric" replaces JR's "my God what a match!"
5) Cena's "The champ is here" replaces JR's "It's not over/the world is watching"

The only really odd one is the MDM for Taker. It always seemed weird to me that Cena wasn't in there with an audio clip given that he is the face of the current WWE. It was also weird that the video clips ended with HHH holding belts from 8 years ago so I'm not sad to see that go.

I think they could have used JR and Cole tbh.

And doing this as punishment is pretty shitty.

Million Dollar Man's been in there for months, he was just before Taker.

That new intro is gay.

:y: The one I used for reference was from last year.

Why remove Taker then? Perhaps cs he says "Rest In Peace"?

Hmmm....Jim Ross is in the business just recently decided to stay with WWE and not go to TNA....hmmm....I doubt Ross is being disrespected. And chances are Ross has a lifetime pay check from Vince & WWE. There's a reason he stayed.

Love Ross to DEATH! But eventually you have to move on, seriously. Usher in the new announcers.

This is a HUGELY DICK move from the boys at WWE... No respect for Good Ol' J.R. Just pisses me off...

Pisses you guys off...? Lets see what JR has to say...

You're either kidding or you have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Anyone could have taken Hogan's spot. No one could have replaced Gorgeous George or Nature Boy Buddy Rogers.

That's debatable. Did McMahon make Hogan, or did Hogan make McMahon?