As seen at the top of Monday's RAW broadcast, WWE debuted a modified montage video. Among the changes were "Classy" Freddie Blassie, Buddy Rogers, Gorgeous George and Harley Race being added, but the most striking change was the removal of the voice of Jim Ross in favor of RAW announcer Michael Cole.
Concerning the modified video, Ross wrote on Twitter: "While @ gym got messages my voice was removed from Raw show open. If it matters, that's news 2 me. Been nice 2 have been informed. Oh, well." You can obviously tell he's not thrilled.
Here is the new RAW opening video:
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I normally fast forward through the opening so I didn't notice but that sucks. Wonder why they're trying to distance themselves from JR so badly. Is it only a matter of time before Lawler is replaced also?