Savage: HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Whereas the WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION has implemented it's King of the Ring single elimination tournament AND...

Whereas the Participants have prepared and arried and competed AND...

Where as the Competition has drawn to a close, I am proud to announce that a winner has been determined.

As of June the 15th, 1997, the Year of our LORD, in the Civic Center in the Hallowed City of Providence, Rhode Island

ON FATHER'S DAY

It is an Honor and a Privilege to announce to YOU... the NEW KING OF THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION!

May he reign with Honor, Integrity, Devotion and Spirit. May he reign with all that it took to arrive and be victorious.

May he reign with the respect of his subjects.

May he reign without peer.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to present to you,

THE 1997 KING OF THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION...

LONG LIVE KING.... STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN!

King Kong Bundy places the cape over the winners shoulders, then sets the crown onto his head. Bam Bam and Piper applaud.

Austin snatches the mic, then flips off his royal trappings.

Austin: First of all... you can get this cheap plastic and polyester off of me. That's my FIRST $%&-DAMN ROYAL DECREE! Second of all... I went and done TOLD everybody what I would do. Win, lose or DRAW... it didn't matter. One way or the other, I WOULD be KING! And I AM!

Austin looks at Piper.

Austin: My NEXT decree is for this plaid skirt wearin', piece of trash... to shave his boney legs... and for these two blimps to go on a ROYAL DIET! And I didn't forget about you, Savage. I had to stand here and listen to your strainin' voice butcher that proclamation like the barber went and done to the back of your hair! I'm bald cause I WANNA be, son. So shut your hole right now.

Savage looks angrily at Austin, but suprisingly Piper calms everyone down.

Austin: Now... I'd like to thank absolutely NOBODY! There ain't a ONE of you standin' up here, lookin' all stupid, who wanted Stone Cold to win. None of these fans out here wanted Stone Cold to win. NOBODY wanted a Stone Cold King. Because they know I'll get out here and tell it like it is. I ain't hidin' in a dressing room, cryin' like a little baby. I ain't runnin' off and hidin' behind managers or tag team partners or gangs of jackasses in stables.

Bam Bam makes a motion for Austin to wrap up.

Austin: I'll wrap this the HELL UP when I'm DONE! So shut your fat, tattooed head up, before I stuff this crown somewhere that ain't see the LIGHT OF DAY!

Austin: I won the Royal Rumble.... I won the Servant for a Day Match.... Time Bomb an' me beat the Hart Foundation within an inch of their lives at WrestleMania... I whooped Derrick Stardom at Qualify 97.... I knocked the hell out of Bret Hart at Superstars Revenge, and now I'm the meanest S.O.B. King this federation done saw. This canvas.... all four corners.... the turnbuckles... and the damn ringposts belong to ME, now. And I'll use each and every part of this ring to beat the HELL out of ANYBODY that gets in my way. And that's the BOTTOM LINE.... 'CAUSE STONE COLD SAID SO!!

Austin: (looks at everyone in the ring) I went and done whooped all the wrestlers asses tonight, you four pieces of trash had best get the HELL out of my way, before I whoop TITAN TOWER'S asses, too!

Reluctantly, they step aside. There is the sound of glass breaking, then Stone Cold's music begins to play. He takes the T.V. title belt and holds it up over his head as he climbs up onto the turnbuckle and shows it off. Austin gets booed... but some cheers are mixed in.

Austin climbs down, leaps from the ring and storms out with Sabrina and Graves. The fans boo as the King of the Ring music plays over the speakers.

JR: The WWF has taken on a NEW LOOK here tonight! Sabrina Savage RULES this fed!

Bam Bam: An' if she DOES have some kind of arrangement wit' Taylor Tech, you can include them, too! They got the tag gold!

JR: But for HOW LONG!? Tomorrow night on RAW... THAT could change!!!!

Bam Bam: JR, it's been a pleasure workin' with ya.

JR: Likewise, Mr. Bigelow. What a night it's been!

Bam Bam: New world champ... Demolition defeatin' the Hart Foundation. Lex Luger's the new WCW champ... but Ahmed is on his way!

JR: Rocky Miavia joins the WWF! This week on the USA Network, I'll get a word with this young superstar.

Bam Bam: An' of course, Stone Cold King!

JR: The WWF may NEVER be the same again! For Bam Bam Bigelow... I'm Jim Ross... saying GOOD NIGHT... FROM PROVIDENCE!!! We hope you have enjoyed....THE KING OF THE RING!!!