10 Terrible Habits WWE Commentary Team Need To Break

9. One Less Voice

Lucha Underground is commentated by Matt Striker and Vampiro, Ring of Honour by Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino, TNA by Josh Mathews and (up until recently) Taz, NXT is at its strongest when it's solely down to Brennan and Graves. Patterns are fun. Yes, what these teams all have in common is that they're all two-handers. Which makes perfect sense. When one guy stops making noises with his mouth, then it's your turn. Proceed in that fashion until the show stops. Right now the WWE is obsessed with three-man teams. RAW is currently called by Michael Cole, JBL and Booker T, Smackdown by Byron Saxton, Jerry Lawler and either Cole or Tom Phillips. A variety of voices is fine, it's nice to mix Booker T's laid-back 'dawg's with JBL's cantankerous Texan barks, but when three men are all being told to look at a thing and react, the delicate balance collapses. People struggle to get their points across, scrambling over each other to get their soundbites heard. Perhaps this endures because Vince remembers being part of a three-man team, joining the commentators in order to produce from ringside, make sure all the points were covered. And that worked fine, still nowhere near as good as it did when he left JR and The King to it, but fine. Because the product was simpler, the internet and social media were less of a constant looming presence. Nowadays, with so much information to get across, three voices simply doesn't work.