Booker T's recent replacement of Jerry Lawler at the Raw announce table has, at least for now, added some desperately needed freshness to the Raw announce team, whereas Byron Saxton has provided the same for Smackdown. The truth of it is, however, that EVERYONE is sick to the back teeth of Michael Cole and even JBL whose level of commentary has dropped drastically since he returned in 2012. Again, not to beat a dead horse, but WWE should look towards NXT for the model of success. NXT uses rotating announce teams, with lead announcer Rich Brennan as the only constant. The quartet of Alex Riley, Corey Graves, Jason Albert and Renee Young are then rotated, often in pairs, every week, leading to a refreshing, different sound to each week's show. Live sports, such as football, tennis, rugby and American sports like baseball follows the same model. Networks often utilise rotating pairs of announcers for different games. WWE's main model, however, is the equivalent of every single football (soccer) game being called by Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend, which, as any British person alive could tell you, is the literal incarnation of hell on earth.
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