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WWE's NEW ANNOUNCING TEAMS

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oldvnewschool

I haven't seen any WWE Programming lately, but I can imagine that the new announce teams on Raw & Smackdown are working pretty well.

At first I was upset at these changes, but in order to really "shake things up" everybody had to be involved.

JR was a Raw Instiution who made you feel right at home with the action, now he will do more than that to help elevate Smackdown with

Mick Foley as his color-commentator, it may easily be the best of the two.

As for Raw, I guess it was expected that Michael Cole was heading there eventually, but he has worked on the show and with his color commentator,

Jerry "The King" Lawler, for two years on Smackdown (1999-2001), so I think he will do fine too (AS LONG AS HE DON't WORK WITH JBL THAT's FINE WITH ME).

Now that means ECW has to step it up, the times I have heard Mike Adamle open his mouth makes me want to press the mute button quickly.

Tazz has to do, at least, 60% of the work. Who knows, maybe Mr. McMahon can go back to his roots now that he's "injured" ;D

Either way I grade them like this:

Smackdown: A ++

Raw: A

ECW: F
 
I hate Michael Cole. At least there were no money giveaways this week. That brought the show down, in my opinion. It also made WWE look desparate for TV ratings.
 
KML-224 said:
I hate Michael Cole. At least there were no money giveaways this week. That brought the show down, in my opinion. It also made WWE look desparate for TV ratings.
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The $ giveaways were the reason that the creative team came up with Mr. McMahan's "accident". This was their way of ending the gimmick.

Rumors are circulating on the Internet that Joey Styles will be put back on ECW due to the overwhelming negative fan reaction to Mike Adamle.
 
KML-224 said:
I hate Michael Cole. At least there were no money giveaways this week. That brought the show down, in my opinion. It also made WWE look desparate for TV ratings.
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What's your beef with Cole?
 
It's hard to say. I'm cool with J.R., but Jerry gets on my nerves at times. I also agree that Mike Adamle is awful. Joey Styles was either funny or ridiculous. Vince as the evil tycoon is great. As a commentator, eh, no so great.
 
Management doesn't want traditional play by play guys..they want men who can tell a story....eh..

I just don't get the Adamle thing. I mean, its one thing to suck, but make it work in your favor...but to suck AND suck the life out of an already tepid hour of sports-entertainment....well, thats low.
 
KML-224 said:
I'm cool with J.R., but Jerry gets on my nerves at times. I also agree that Mike Adamle is awful.
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Why don't you submit your resume to WWE headquarters in Stamford...

... if you think you're (wait for it) ...

"Tough Enough"! ;D
 
If Management don't want play-by-play guys that can tell a story they shouldn't have hired someone with ESPN experience (Mike Adamle) ;D.

That's one thing I never understand as to why Joey Styles has never been well respected by WWE officials ::).

It's not like they given him a WHOLE LOT OF GOOD STUFF for him to work with in the past ???.

Tazz has to do A LOT MORE since he left, I don't want to think he has to turn it into a karoke hour :mad:.

Who knows, ECW may be cancelled after this year and this nightmare will end shortly ;D.
 
oldvnewschool said:
If Management don't want play-by-play guys that can tell a story they shouldn't have hired someone with ESPN experience (Mike Adamle) ;D.
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And ESPN in turn, hires someone with WWE experience. Jonathan Coachman has signed to do Play-by-Play for ESPN U. and is no longer with the WWE.
 
Tazz is in the minors. ECW is a dump-away show for super hardcore wrestling geeks. I, even an avid wrestling fan, does not care about ECW. It's a minor league and a stepping stone for wrestlers. Tazz is great at what he does, but sadly nobody hears it. ECW still probably gets one of the highest ratings on the network.

Michael Cole is the next Jim Ross, I believe. He is solid and a perfect fit for any WWE show.

I love the fact Jim Ross is going to Smackdown with Triple H. Will make the Friday night show more interesting. Now, they just need to make the show Live.

Adamle is awful. I can't believe they paid him $300,000 to bring him in. What was the point?

Joey Styles, fit for the old ECW, not fit for the WWE product...
 
$300,000 for Adamle :eek:, WOW THEY REALLY GOT HIM CHEAP ;D

I too love the fact that JR & Triple H are now on Smackdown, it is EXACTLY WHAT THE SHOW NEEDED, and I do wish it was live too.

But that's proabaly because WWE does BIG BUSINESS HOUSE SHOWS on the weekends that it would be impossible to do so right now.

Hopefully MY Network TV will force them to do occasional live broadcasts to build interest since their the best thing they got right now.

I hope Jerry "The King" Lawler don't give Cole a hard time on Raw, they seem like they worked great together in the episodes of Smackdown I saw on TV

when they worked together circa 1999 and 2001.

Now if Vinnie Mac would give us a product that we will all enjoy, then the WWE could get the big ratings they had in the late 90's.
 
Studio20 said:
Management doesn't want traditional play by play guys..they want men who can tell a story....eh..

I just don't get the Adamle thing. I mean, its one thing to suck, but make it work in your favor...but to suck AND suck the life out of an already tepid hour of sports-entertainment....well, thats low.
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The way Mike Adamle's announcing is joked about purposely on the air, I think this is precisely what WWE wants--a goofy character calling the action as opposed to a character being on color. He sucks at announcing in reality, but now he's supposed to 'suck' on purpose. Stupid, I know, but its different.

It's not like the other announcers don't play a role, either. Whenever the wrestlers fight at the announce table, they're supposed to 'fearfully' get out of the way. Stuff like that and favoring the babyfaces wrestlers while chiding the heel ones.
 
KML-224 said:
I hate Michael Cole.
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Cole would be much more tolerable if he weren't so predictable:

"He's got the match won! 1...2..." (Nearly always results in a two-count non fall.)

"We're gonna have a new champion!" (If he says this before said champion has actually been pinned or he submits, we probably don't.)

My personal peeve: Undertaker walking on the top rope is described by Cole as "Going Old School". Which might be accurate if 'Taker had actually stopped doing it for a significant time--which has been never.
 
Yeah I Always wonder why that was such a huge fad for the American Commentators to get away from the action unharm while the Spanish Announce Table always got the bulk of the damage?

That being said I don't know why they don't want to put stock in traditional play-by-play men either.

TNA Impact has a traditional, "SOMEWHAT", system in that Mike Tenay & Don West don't deliberatly route for the good guys, more than criticized the

bad guys for doing bad things.

If the WWE had that it wouldn't be so bad on their part.

Cole is the worst on predicting an outcome, but I guess that's part of his gimmick.

I do hate it when he, and Tazz for the longest time, said it's old school time when he walked on the top of the ropes.

I hope The Undertaker comes back, not in that Brett Farve way of course ;D!
 
My personal pet peeve is when Kane goes to the top ropes and hits that clothesline. He is just slow...and even JR will go, "What great agility by Kane."
 
The "old school" comment isnt for if Taker ever stopped walking the top rope. Its for the fact that its a signature move held over from the old gimmick.
 
KTU_Fan said:
The "old school" comment isnt for if Taker ever stopped walking the top rope. Its for the fact that its a signature move held over from the old gimmick.
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I'm not sure what you mean by the 'old gimmick'. In WWE, Mark Callaway's only had two: His original "Deadman" Undertaker that he returned to just a few years ago, and his "American Badazz" biker persona in the middle while keeping the Undertaker name.

He might have stopped using it for a while as the biker. But, again, I contend: Deadman 1.0 and 2.0 have always used it, so is it really 'old school'? Nitpicky, I know. But it's still grating to me. Stop it Michael Cole!
 
...to hell with the lot of 'em. I'll go with my old tapes of Rodger Kent (AWA), Bob Luce (WWA) and Bob Caudle (Charlotte NWA) over that current crap anytime...
 
Ultimajock said:
...to hell with the lot of 'em. I'll go with my old tapes of Rodger Kent (AWA), Bob Luce (WWA) and Bob Caudle (Charlotte NWA) over that current crap anytime...
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How can you forget Gordon Solie (Championship Wrestling from Florida, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Continental Championship Wrestling), the man referred to as "The Dean" (and "The Golden Tongue" by Dusty Rhodes)?
 
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