Scenes with Jim Ross 32
[Opening of WrestleMania XX]
[From the darkness, we hear approaching footsteps. Vince McMahon appears in view looking around.]
Twenty years ago, one man had a vision. It began here...
[Closeup of McMahon staring towards the camera]
...and it would change our world.
[from WrestleMania 2] Welcome to WrestleMania!
As the vision grew, we cheered it on...
JVJesse "The Body" Ventura
[from Wrestlemania III] I never thought it could be done, Gorilla!
[from Wrestlemania III] The irresistible force meeting the immovable object!
[from WrestleMania XIX] History has been made!
[from WrestleMania XII] The boyhood dream has come true!
We watched with utter disbelief...
JRJim Ross
[from Wrestlemania XII] No! He won't do the same!
[from Wrestlemania XIV] Oh! I can't believe my eyes!
JRJim Ross
[from WrestleMania XIV] The Austin Era has begun!
[from WrestleMania XIX] Oh my god!
But above all, we've been inspired, and enriched, by the vision.
JRJim Ross
[from WrestleMania XIX] Welcome to WrestleMania!
EGEddie Guerrero
Sometimes, things are so special in your life that words cannot explain...
BLBrock Lesnar
The history, alone, in that place makes Madison Square Garden special...
My family's gonna come there. My wife, my mom, my dad, my daughter...
Everything that I've ever wanted out of life comes down to this one day, this one short period of time...
My passion. The thing you dream about, and consumes you...
KAKurt Angle
People are gonna remember this forever...
MFMick Foley
People will say, "Y'know, that match was worth coming back for."
BSBig Show
You haven't lived, you haven't breathed, until you've danced at WrestleMania...
Tonight will be like no other! Tonight is the Showcase Of The Immortals! They will achieve the impossible and forge new beginnings! Tonight men will hunt down their dreams! Tonight no one holds back! And tonight is where it all begins...
[McMahon smiles at the camera]
[Camera pulls back to see his son Shane McMahon, alongside newborn Declan James McMahon. Three generations of McMahons.]
[During the Money in the Bank Ladder Match, Chris Benoit at the top of the ladder reaching for the briefcase]
JRJim Ross
Benoit's gonna win this thing, King. He deserves it after what he's gone through.
I gotta agree with you now. Benoit does deserve this.
[Edge nails Benoit in the arm with a chair, sending him off the ladder]
JJim
Into the arm! Edge hit Benoit in the injured arm! And the opportunistic Edge! [Edge climbs the ladder] Don't tell me Edge is gonna win this thing! No, come on!
JJim
Somebody get in there!
He's there! Edge is there! He's teetering... [Edge unhooks the briefcase] but he's got it! Oh, my God, Edge has done it!
JJim
Edge has won the match!
Here is your winner: Edge!
That chair shot, that vicious chair shot on Benoit's bad arm!
[Edge runs back, hugging the briefcase]
JJim
Benoit was one step away from winning this Money in the Bank ladder match! One step away, King!
But I gotta say, if Benoit didn't do it, if anybody deserved to win this match, Edge did. Edge deserved it. Look at that look of satisfaction on his face.
JJim
Well, I figure 20,193 here in Hollywood that might not agree with you. Edge, in any event, can wrestle the world's heavyweight champion, whomever that may be, anytime he chooses within the next twelve months.
Jim Ross Trish looking for Stratusfaction here.
[ Mickie James grabs Trish's crotch, causing her to instinctively let go]
[Mickie licks up her hand, ending between her fingers]
...
JJim
Mickie James trying to take Trish mentally right out of her game after physically trying to take that left leg away.
Took me mentally right out of my game, I'll tell you that.
JJim
The nutjob has won the title!
Here is your winner and the NEW WWE Women's Champion: Mickie James!
The inmate's gonna be running the asylum!
JJim
I think there's some fans here that got a hall pass from the home. They're actually cheering this psychotic woman.
[Mickie, with the belt, blows a kiss to Trish as she leaves]
JJim
Mickie James use some very unique, feminine strategy to take Trish Status mentally out of the game, and some overt physicality...to exploit the leg, and then, capture the title in her first WrestleMania match. Mickie James has won the title.
[Highlights of the match is shown]
Let's check out— This was the momentum-changer right there. That kick into Trish's leg. And then—and then, Trish's nose—I think her face...
JJim
Chick Kick, knocked Trish right to the face.
JJim
The hook to the leg, and Trish—didn't have enough to kick out. And Mickie James has won the Women's Title at her first Wrestlemania.
And she did it by using Trish Stratus's own finishing move against her.
JJim
And I'll say it again, Mick, you got one win for ya. Lithium! Get some help!
[as Jeff Hardy sets up a ladder in the ring and Matt Hardy lays Edge, who was dropped to the outside by Randy Orton, horizontally onto another ladder between the ring and the barricade]
JRJim Ross
Jeff Hardy with a golden opportunity. Can Jeff Hardy capitalize?
JLJohn "Bradshaw" Layfield
A world title is at stake here.
Whoa, wait a minute. Wait, whoa-
What the hell's he doing?
JBL [as Jeff begins to climb the ladder in the ring, nowhere near the briefcase]: Win the damn match, Jeff! What the hell's wrong with you, kid?!
Yeah, Matt put Edge on that ladder and Matt's telling-
JBL [as Matt is signaling to Jeff to take Edge out] What's wrong with you, you lunatic?! Win the damn match!!
You've got a shot at the world championship, Jeff! Damn him to hell! No, come on!
Jerry [as Jeff reaches the top of the ladder]: No way.
JJim
Jeff Hardy said he was gonna steal WrestleMania!
Michael [as Jeff leaps from the top of the ladder]: You gotta be kidding me!
[Jeff hits a diving leg drop on Edge, snapping the horizontal ladder and taking both men out]
JJim
Good lord! The ladder broke in half!
Jim [as a shocked Matt and the referee check on both men]: Edge may be broken in half! Jeff Hardy may have taken *himself* out of WrestleMania, in contention to win this Money in the Bank ladder match!
SM"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels
[to Ric Flair before hitting Sweet Chin Music on him, ending the match and sending Flair into retirement] I'm sorry. I love you.
Flair wants to fight... Oh!
JRJim Ross
My God, what a shot! Michaels, will it be...? And yes! Yes!
[after Mysterio defeated JBL in 21 seconds] I don't understand that. JBL promised something historic here tonight.
Well, it was something historic.
Mysterio wins the Intercontinental Title for the very first time.
JJim
And now JBL just might understand how the brave Texans felt at the Alamo. It was a bad day at the office.
Mysterio ensured the joke was on JBL here tonight. What a WrestleMania moment.
[JBL grabs the microphone and gets up, not sure now of what to say]
I've got something to say. [The crowd's boos get louder]
I can't wait to hear this excuse. Camera flash got in his eyes, maybe?
This has got to be embarrassing.
I...I...I... I QUIT!!! [crowd cheers]
What?...What did he just say?
[JBL drops the mic, still looking a bit confused]
What? I don't believe - I don't know if JBL even believes what he just said!
Has any...has anybody ever...just quit, at WrestleMania?
Jerry [as JBL exits the ring]: There's still time to reconsider!
JJim
Are we seeing JBL leave the ring, conclusively, for the last time?
[JBL starts walking back up the ramp]
JBL [pointing to the crowd]: You're gonna miss JBL! You are gonna MISS JBL!!
I think he's not gonna - he's not gonna reconsider; if that's the case, he - he HAS made history here tonight, but certainly not the kind that we expected!
Not that he expected, either!
JBL [still shouting to the crowd]: ...I promise you, you will regret this!!
Indeed, sometimes it's hell getting to Heaven.
JJim
I feel like we've just seen heaven. What a match.
The referee is reinforcing the rules. He reminded Triple H that if he is disqualified or counted out, he loses the Championship.
JJim
Which means Randy Orton is the new WWE Champion, bottom line.
Will it be Orton’s law or Triple H’s game for the WWE Championship?
JJim
Is Triple H really the cure for Randy Orton’s disease?
Triple H has said that cowardice is Randy Orton's disease.
When you're as pretty as Michelle McCool, you don't like to be dropped flat on your face.
JRJim Ross
When you're as ugly as I am, you don't like to be dropped flat on your face.
If anything happened to your face, it'd be an improvement.
JRJim Ross
[referring to Triple H] The Game makes his way up!
[Triple H counters by sliding back and pushes the Undertaker into the turnbuckle]
JJim
He slips off the back—
[Undertaker runs into Shawn Michaels's Sweet Chin Music to the jaw, which staggers The Undertaker]
[Triple H kicks Undertaker in the gut and underhooks both of his arms]
JJim
SWEET CHIN MUSIC! SWEET CHIN MUSIC!
[overlapping] LOOK AT THIS! LOOK AT THIS!
[Triple H executes his finishing move, The Pedrigree, on the Undertaker]
JJim
[overlapping] PEDIGREE! A PEDIGREE!
[Shawn Michaels runs in to make the count.]
STREAK'S OVER! STREAK'S OVER!
[Shawn Michaels counts as the crowd chants "1...2..."]
JJim
ANOTHER COUNT! HE GOT IT—!
[Undertaker raises his left shoulder up]
[Shawn Michaels collapses by the turnbuckle in disbelief as he covers his own face over what he just done]
JJim
OH, HE HAVEN'T GOT IT! IT'S NOT OVER! IT'S NOT OVER! THE STREAK LIVES! AND MICHAELS— OH, HE'S—
Shawn Michaels have been calling this matchup down the middle! He was gonna ring the bell and take Taker out of it! And then he was put in the Hell's Gate!
JJim
Michaels had put into a very tough position for Mr. WrestleMania to be in!
[Instant replay is shown at the previous moment]
His emotions overwhelming him!
JJim
Here's this kick, right there! Bam! Downtown! A slobberknocker! The Sweet Chin Music! And then The Pedrigree!
And somehow, amazingly, The Undertaker still lives— look at this!
JJim
The Undertaker will not die! On April 1st, 2012, he will not die!
JRJim Ross
I tell you, in four decades of sitting at ringside, I can honestly say I have never ever witnessed anything like what we have just seen.
The Undertaker is 20-0 at WrestleMania!
JJim
[as the Undertaker tries to get up] Look at the Undertaker's back; he's just fighting to get back up. The era has ended, we will never see it again, and what a way to go.
JRJim Ross
[as Roman Reigns bounces off the ropes] Oh, look out. Look out here. M-momentum... momentum -
[Reigns Spears the Undertaker] OH MAN!
JLJohn "Bradshaw" Layfield
OH GOD!
JJim
And a huge Spear [Reigns covers the Undertaker] into the heart of the Undertaker, [the referee counts three] and Roman Reigns has defeated the Undertaker at WrestleMania with a thunderous Spear!
JJoJo
Here is your winner: Roman Reigns!
JJim
My God, what a physical matchup!
I believe, the greatest win of Roman Reigns's career.
It is the greatest win of Roman Reigns's career 20 years from now, 100 years from now! He just defeated the Undertaker, who... the Undertaker emptied everything in his arsenal; maybe everything in his soul.