10 Terrible Habits WWE Commentary Team Need To Break

8. The Balance Of Face And Heel Is All Wrong

Another symptom of triple-headed commentary is the destruction of the simple, but necessary Face/Heel balance. For every comment that JR would make decrying the injustices of the WWF landscape, The King would lavish double the praise on the heels and all of their double-dealing ways. There was a push and pull, a steady rhythm, a clear and precise heartbeat. Now, for every comment that JBL or Byron Saxton makes, they are shouted down by the two reasonable faces. This forces smaller personalities like Saxton to fade into the background, barely mustering up the courage to voice a dissenting opinion, and forces brash personalities like JBL's to mutate. JBL is a bizarre heel these days. Sure, he bows down at the feet of the Authority and will always put over his paymasters, but he's also started to call out the heels on some of their behaviour. For example, when Rusev appeared at a contract signed with an obviously phoney lawyer with a terrible accent, JBL lambasted the lawyer, saying he'd seen him parking cars out front. Similarly, JBL did nothing but bash the Ascension for the first few weeks they were squashing jobbers, complaining that they were taking the coward's way out. What are you doing, JBL?! The heel commentators of old would swallow every single thing the heels were selling, doing their best to put them over in the process, describing them as cunning when they were being cowardly, dominant when they were being cruel. If even the heel commentators aren't speaking up for you, trying to get over as a villain gets that much harder.