50 Ups & 50 Downs For WWE's Decade: The 2010s
3. Mauro Ranallo's Not So Excellent Adventure
"Mauro Ranallo the WWE main roster commentator" felt destined to fail if only for the memories of others entirely unable to cope with Vince McMahon screaming in their ears, but the combat sports commentator instead had to deal with his colleague b*llocking him the flesh too.
Amidst the awkwardness of Tom Phillips being added as a "host" to help shunt him out of his SmackDown Live lead commentator role in late-2016, Ranallo's mix of style and substance was relentlessly shouted down by JBL doing his best impression of himself as a total a*sehole.
Bradshaw was subsequently booted from the both whilst Mauro found a finer fit with a role as NXT's play-by-play man where he thrived happily for two more years before a needless Corey Graves Twitter attack brought much of it back to the surface. Until a company that's proven itself somewhat toxic earnestly tries to make changes, it'll be hard to imagine it not happening again.