10 Terrible Debuts AEW Quickly Fixed
5. Alex Marvez
Jim Ross has come in for his fair share of criticism in the last two years, thanks in part to some of his dated coverage of female performers and - if not the mistakes themselves - the way he handles being very politely corrected for his mistakes by colleague Excalibur.
But he exists as much for what he's already done than for what he can do. He is to many the voice of professional wrestling, soundtracking much of what made many current stars and supporters fans of all of this to begin with. Gravitas is earned through immense levels of skill and tenure, and Ross has lashings of both.
Alex Marvez...is a nice and well-meaning guy.
Thousand yard stares down the camera at AEW Double Or Nothing spoke best to the situation - he was the wrong man, and he was sat in the wrong chair. A bad call of the Buy-In at least inadvertently served as a good tee-up for Ross later in the show, but his time was brief at the desk. As a cartoonish backstage reporter, he's now quite charming as the oft-bullied man with the microphone. The act's not easy (and has been bastardised by WWE), but Marvez mines the sympathy well, getting over the heel du jour in the process.