philleaps
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Post by philleaps on Jun 10, 2013 0:02:15 GMT -5
The banter between "heel" Lawler and JR was always great. Lawler was always the McMahon guy during the attitude era. Now he almost seems lifeless and bored. Does anyone think a fresh commentary line-up could help the current product? (JBL is gold of course, so excluding him)
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Post by ICW on Jun 10, 2013 0:18:00 GMT -5
The King hasn't been gold on commentary in a very, very long time. I loved his interactions with JR during the height of the Attitude Era. He played the role perfectly because you could never really hate the King even though he was ALWAYS rooting for the heels.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 0:20:38 GMT -5
They tried to do the same thing with Cole but really Cole was just the annoying bastard he always had been but with a more dickish attitude. Lawler will be the face announcer till he retires. We have good Ol' JBL for a heel goodness.
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Post by gcreams on Jun 10, 2013 0:21:03 GMT -5
I think it would. I loved the JR/King dynamic back then and I love that JBL always plays the devil's advocate and does the best with what he's given. Lawler and Cole don't do too much for me these days so I think mixing it up could be good.
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Post by BrandontheWrestlingGuy on Jun 10, 2013 3:50:19 GMT -5
The banter between "heel" Lawler and JR was always great. Lawler was always the McMahon guy during the attitude era. Now he almost seems lifeless and bored. Does anyone think a fresh commentary line-up could help the current product? (JBL is gold of course, so excluding him) I know what you mean, the "old heel" was great but My fav goes way farther than what you have mentioned. I loved his feud with Bret Hart in 93 and all that hilarious crap he said about his parents. I liked how it even kinda was continued in 94 during his feud with Roddy Piper! Oh and I thought it was so fun when he stared feuding with Bret in 95 too with the "Kiss My Foot" match at KOTR! 93 - 95 were absolute GOLDEN for Lawler. I really disliked and was quite annoyed by the "puppies" saying he had during the AE, this is when he really started to fade away as a great IMO. Maybe if he would have said boobies I may have felt different but I ain't sure about that. Yeah, Jerry The King needs to get back on track with being how he was in the early 90s, I like seeing him on raw every week but I just miss how he was about 20 ya! |
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Post by johnnyb on Jun 10, 2013 8:01:57 GMT -5
Today's commentary team overall is just terrible. JBL is okay but Cole and Lawler have been awful for years. They ruin nearly every segment.
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Post by adzy on Jun 10, 2013 11:23:20 GMT -5
JBL is great, Cole is pretty annoying but Lawler usually cracks me up with his cheesy one liners...i think he's been a bit funnier since he came back from his heart attack
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 11:29:59 GMT -5
Jerry Lawler is another example of someone holding on to the business and can't let go. Jerry Lawler should be in retirement with Jim Ross. I always thought the both of them should of left together. It would be so much better for a one off appearance of Jerry Lawler every so often with fresh martial rather than him being the way he is now. It's not like Jerry Lawler needs the money or is doing the traveling for the experience, he has been everywhere and has plenty of money. I think he should retire and focus on his art, it would probably be a healthier life style considering his age and health problems.
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Post by ThugSuperstar on Jun 10, 2013 11:59:46 GMT -5
He was much better as a heel announcer, but even towards the later days when he would act like the heel announcer with JR I felt like he was getting stale. He really just needs to retire. He and Cole are both terrible, but I could actually stomach Cole more if it was just him and JBL because Layfield is so good as the heel color commentator. He's probably the best announcer the company has had since Tazz left.
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Post by kazoosandstreamers on Jun 10, 2013 14:54:39 GMT -5
Heel Lawler ruled all.
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Post by Daniel F'n Bryan on Jun 10, 2013 15:00:32 GMT -5
He was much better as a heel announcer, but even towards the later days when he would act like the heel announcer with JR I felt like he was getting stale. He really just needs to retire. He and Cole are both terrible, but I could actually stomach Cole more if it was just him and JBL because Layfield is so good as the heel color commentator. He's probably the best announcer the company has had since Tazz left. Too bad Tazz is absolutely horrible on commentary now. I'd love to see a JR/JBL commentary team. JR can still do it better then anyone else and JBL is just so damn good at it so that's what i'd want as the commentary team but it would never happen. |
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Post by Nivro™ on Jun 10, 2013 16:44:55 GMT -5
I guess Im the only one that finds JBL to be quite annoying since he's returned. He literally rambles about nothing whatsoever and tries to banter with Cole & King and none of the three mesh well with each other. There simply just isnt a good/tolerable wrestling announcer out there that can do a good job. It also doesnt help that they're constantly going on with WWE App, Twitter and tout garbage all the time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2013 17:01:23 GMT -5
I think JBL is fantastic, but I hate the 3 man commentary team. JBL and Cole would be fine, if they went back to how they were on Smackdown when JBL was the heel and Cole was the face. Just let King do whatever behind the scenes.
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Post by Mizzah on Jun 10, 2013 17:52:56 GMT -5
Today's commentary team overall is just terrible. JBL is okay but Cole and Lawler have been awful for years. They ruin nearly every segment. JR and Lawler were excellent.. Michael Cole is seriously lacking in the commentary department. |
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