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

I'm not going to tell you that there weren't a few bumps here and there when they finally came out to do commentary.

What was amazing was that even though there was a slightly rough one and a half minutes when they first sat down thing started clicking.

It was "Saturday Nights Main Event" all over again, I was 10 or 11 years old again and I was loving every minute of it.

In reality they only called one match, it happened to be the last match of the night so it was the main event.

As quickly as it came it was over, Jesse Ventura had some in ring announcements to make and Vince went backstage.

Now the point of this article is not aimed at Pro-Wrestling fans, no, not one bit.

What I'm talking about in this article is that you can't fake chemistry and these two guys have amazing chemistry.

I'm sure that in other sports, (Yes, I consider Pro-Wrestling a sport)...

I guess I have to back up and explain why wrestling is a sport. Yes, the matches are preordained so it's not a real fight, but ask any of the MMA guys like Frank Trigg how hard he thought wrestling a match was and he'll tell you that these guys are athletes of the first order.

Yes it is performance art and it's not a fight at all that you're seeing in the ring but I never heard anyone say to me. "Rob, you know what, I was so upset when I found out that Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't kill those actors for real."

OK, so you get my point.

Anyway, this is not an article that really has a direction, I just simply turned into a 11 year old and I loved it so much that I wanted to write about it.

I guess, if there is a lesson in any of this it's that you should appreciate what you've got before it's gone since nothing lasts forever. We should also be very grateful when we get the chance to time travel without leaving the couch.

I will probably be posting this on my blog within a few days so if you want to leave a comment you can do so here or on my blog http://www.robertkorczak.com

by: Rob Korczak