How to improve the WWE commentary team?

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Cole has become so annoying as he's got older, I don't think he's at all likeable

[Omega 354]

There's something irritating about Cole and I think it's because he's got this aura like he's "one of the boys", you know? Like Michael Cole thinks he is as important as any wrestler.

 

The most irritating thing about WWE commentary is that they can;t decide on whether people are heel colour or face colour, it's one of the few places where those strict definitions of the guy who likes the good guys and the guy who praises the bad guys should definitely exist. JBL who mocks Dolph Ziggler but then cheers John Cena before calling out Jack Swagger for cheating doesn't work.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Yeah I've noticed that too, going back to the early 00's you'd have one commentator heel one a face and the formula worked.

 

I find Cole smarmy and heelish most of the time and yes he does seem to think he's some pivotal part of the WWE machine

[DC 536]

Yeah I've noticed that too, going back to the early 00's you'd have one commentator heel one a face and the formula worked.

You can go back a lot further than that, with the original WrestleMania having a face play-by-play and a heel colour commentator. I'm sure Monsoon & Ventura were doing their thing on TV then too.

[Guest Jayfunk]

Two words ...... Don West

[Guest BeorimJ]

Honestly, and i am sure to get heat for that, but i thin, when Cole is able to just provide match commentary he is actually quite good. I am much more annoyed with JBL than with Cole. And Jerry… well, he somehow does not play any important role anymore, except to provide for the occasional laugh, and then again also the occasional yawn.. so neither good, nor really bad. But JBL annoys me, and i am not sure if it is WWEs way of telling him how to work, or because he has lost it. The NXT team is actually providing better work. Let JBL be exchanged with William Regal i say, and i think i would be a happy man^^

[Maxximus 353]

King needs to retire and go back to funding the Memphis crime syndicate. Cole and JBL need to move to Vermont and get married since they're obviously gay for each other. They can do podcasts all they want just stay out of wrestling. Josh, Regal and Renee should be full time commentary for Raw and Smackdown.

[Guest Jack]

It's probably an unpopular opinion but I don't like listening to Regal on commentary. He's fine most of the time but he goes into unnecessary detail far too often on the most insignificent of things and it leaves me thinking "...really?". I just don't care. A wrestler will use, I don't know, a wrist lock or whatever, and he'll give us a 5 minute explanation of how it can cause a scaphoid fracture, how the metatarsals are twisted and so on. It's a bit excessive and usually annoying.

 

The commentary team would probably be fine if they weren't scripted. JBL used to be great, Lawler was always quick witted and Cole wasn't as bad as he is now, though they're so tame at the moment. They should be three charismatic, well spoken, knowledgeable guys, just let them get on with saying what they want. If they are going to be instructed, tell Cole to stop shouting things like "THE KNEE!!! THE KNEE!!! THE KNEE!!! KNEE!!! KNEE!!! KNEE!!! BRYAN WITH THE KNEE!!! KNEE!!! THE KNEE!!!". It's terrible to listen to.

[Maxximus 353]

That Cole crap is one of the reasons I can't take pro wrestling seriously anymore or even watch it and it's bumming me out because I love the Shield but I just cannot bring myself to watch wrestling for a variety of reasons and one of the major one is Micheal f*cking Cole.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Renee Young I think would be a great addition to the main commentary cast

[dsrchris 190]

I actually don't mind Alex Riley on commentary. He does a pretty good job of heeling it up on NXT. Tensai isn't completely awful either.

 

I think the main difference between NXT commentary and main show commentary is that the guys on NXT seem to be having way more fun with it than Cole, JBL & King. There's not as much forced laughter and gumph, and I could listen to Renee and Regal flirt all day.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Cole treats Raw & SD 99.99% of the time as a CNN news desk as if everything is deadly serious

[Guest Laffy]

Reading Twitter and I quite confess without the network I did not see the show but apparently Renee Young and Heyman were awesome and made some quite brilliant comments as well as apparently sexual attraction which sounded just wrong.

[DC 536]

Cole treats Raw & SD 99.99% of the time as a CNN news desk as if everything is deadly serious

Surely that should be a good thing.

 

I mean, the stuff we see is being played as if real, so not treating it seriously would undermine that.

[Guest Ciaran The King]

I think I mean more so that there seems to be no camaraderie like there used to be between Lawler and JR even JBL and Josh