Jesse Ventura & Vince McMahon Color Comentate WWE "Monday Night Raw"

Enjoy What You Have While You Have it Because it Can and Probably Will Go Away

I hadn't really enjoyed what the WWF has been presenting for a very long time, they dreamt up some guest-host gimmick where there is a different guest-host every week on Raw.

To be perfectly honest, it's been very tedious to say the least. Most Monday nights I end up watching the show more out of habit than what is actually being presented.

However, this week was different although the reason why this week was different is that awful guest-host shtick.

What am I talking about?

I'm talking about former professional wrestler and color commentator and former governor none other than Jesse, "The Body" Ventura.

The best of the best of heel announcers was on Raw, I had to watch the show and I was literally in another time. I was 11 years old again and loving every last bit of it.

The coup de grâce came when Ventura did a backstage segment with Vince McMahon. At first McMahon told Ventura that he wasn't going to fight him in the ring or anything like that.

To which Jesse responded with, and I'm paraphrasing here, "Vince, when I retired from wrestling that was it and I don't want to wrestle you."

"What I do want, and as I"m the guest with all the power tonight, I want you and me to go out there and do color commentary like we did 20 years ago."

When I heard that, I was absolutely a little kid again.

Say what you will about Vince McMahon but back in the day when he and Jesse Ventura were doing color commentary it was absolute magic. It was so good that I failed to appreciate just how good it was before it was gone.

Let me tell the uninitiated that Vince McMahon was a really good color commentator. When his father owned the WWWF (which later became the WWF) he had Vince doing color commentary because Vince was good at it, it kept him out of trouble and it was working very well.

After Vince Jr. bought the WWWF from Vince McMahon Senior he absolutely took an territorial promotion and eventually made it not only national but international.

Enough about that, Vince and Jesse The Body Ventura were going to call a match. Jesse even brought a tuxedo for Vince with a red bow-tie just like he wore 20 years ago.