CM Punk never really got round to finishing that story about why Vince McMahon was a hypocrite for running an anti-bullying campaign that he was cutoff from finishing in his first of many worked shoot promos seven weeks ago. The perfect payoff would have been Punk publicly complaining about Vince's long term hazing of his former Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and lead television announcer Jim Ross. Ross was brought back as a full time announcer on the July 25th edition of Raw to put over that WWE would be different under the benevolent Triple H's onscreen leadership than Mr. McMahon's dictatorship was, but behind the scenes nothing has changed. WWE management are still treating Ross like dirt.

For those that were wondering why WWE's best announcer by far wasn't announcing at SummerSlam, it was because Vince McMahon decided to mess with Ross' head for what seems like the millionth time. As Dave Meltzer gossiped on yesterday's Wrestling Observer radio show, Ross was told that he was commentating all day until Vince pulled the rug out from underneath him at the very last second with the flimsy excuse being that Booker T had to replace him as otherwise there wouldn't be a Smackdown announcer on the show. By this point I think it's clear that Jim Ross expects to be treated as a walking doormat by WWE and doesn't mind as long as their cheques clear.

At least he got to announce on Monday, but I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't let in on the fact that Vickie Guerrero was going to steal his trademark cowboy hat and Dolph Ziggler was going to destroy it at the end of the match between Alex Riley vs. Jack Swagger. Even if he was, the mouthpiece of Vince McMahon, heel Michael Cole, made sure to rub it in that Good Ol' J.R.'s boy Jack Swagger, who he recruited into developmental from the University of Oklahoma, botched his Doctor Bomb finisher even though his opponent Alex Riley was to blame for sandbagging him. Just another day at the office for the downtrodden Ross.

Here's a brief rundown of some of the most embarrassing things Ross has had to endure over the years: