5 Commentator matches you may not remember

This guy should only be in the ring to interview wrestlers

#2 Jim Ross vs. Eric Bischoff (WWE RAW - February 17, 2003)

Have an upcoming match with Stone Cold? Beat up JR!

Remember that time Stone Cold Steve Austin, wrestled Eric Bischoff on PPV, just over one month before the final match of his career? Yeah. that was awesome.

It wasn’t? Oh. My bad.

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So before that match, Eric Bischoff needed a warm-up. Being that he was the RAW General Manager at the time, he decided to make a match between himself and Stone Cold’s best friend in WWE, Good ‘Ol JR. Not cool, dude. Not cool at all. Eric Bischoff, as they say, has no chill.

So the match happened on the final Monday Night RAW before the No Way Out show in 2003, and, yeah. It happened.

Bischoff, a former pro kickboxer, started with a martial arts display, destroying a wooden board and a watermelon before being interrupted by JR. Bischoff mocked him and mocked karate (for some reason -- maybe because he thought it was funny?) before getting slapped in the face by Ross.

Val Venis, portraying the evil Chief Morley character at the time, helped beat JR up, and Bischoff kicked a cinder block that was placed on JR’s head.

Ross bled from the attack, Jerry Lawler tried to save him but couldn’t, and Bischoff got the pin. In the end, it wasn’t necessarily a bad angle to put some heat on the match with Stone Cold at that Sunday’s upcoming PPV, but the PPV match should never have been made in the first place. It was a crap show. This just added to it.

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