10 Simple Ideas From The Past That Would Save WWE In The Present
5. Distinguishable Commentator Voices
Look, they get a lot of stick, but there's nothing 'bad' about the commentators in WWE today.
They all do their job well, they’re professional and polished and it's all, you know... fine. But with the honourable exception of Corey Graves, they all sort of bleed into one pretty generic voice, and, for the love of Mankind, the less said about the scripted and can-fed lines, the better.
That’s the reason they get so unfairly maligned by the more brutishly opinionated wrasslin’ fan of the modern era. The thing is, for a good twenty or thirty years, the announce team and the idiosyncrasies they brought to the commentary table were synonymous with WWE’s output, so much so that they are as ingrained in the lore of the company as any superstar.
The organic, instantly recognisable southern twang of JR, or the irrepressible growl of Jesse Ventura, and their respective partnerships with the likes of Jerry Lawler and Gorilla Monsoon, are as vital to the product as the ring itself, and these days has become sacrificed on the Altar of Presentable. Good Gawd Almahty, it's heinous.