10 Terrible Habits WWE Commentary Team Need To Break
6. Stay Out Of The Ring
The absolute nadir of commentary occurred from the winter of 2011 to the summer of 2012. This was the time of the King/Cole rivalry, and it makes fans ears bleed just thinking about it. It began with Cole foiling Lawler's attempt to beat The Miz for his WWE Championship in a TLC match. That's an actual sentence full of actual facts. This sparked an interminably long rivalry that culminated in not one, not two, but THREE PPV matches featuring the two men. One of which was a country whipping match featuring Cole, Jack Swagger, Lawler and JR. That's three commentators and one wrestler. As JR himself put it on twitter, "it sucked." This period of time also played host to the Commentator's Rumble. During the Royal Rumble 2012 all three commentators, Lawler, Booker T, and yes even Michael Cole (especially Michael Cole) all got spots. It must be an utterly unique kind of despair to be told that you're being bumped for Michael Cole. Now this wouldn't have been so bad if it was just the terrible matches, but when these feuding characters are in constant forced proximity with not only each other and the fans' ears, then the wrestling gets swamped in endless bickering and snide remarks. This might normally have gone unsaid, because we've long since passed that dark time in everybody's lives. But no, earlier this year, JBL, not content with giving the Ascension a verbal kicking, decided to go physical and on the Old School Raw, delivering a Clothsline from Hell to Viktor of the Ascension, humiliating the two men desperately trying to get over as heels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3CnUwJwbMc Perhaps it's worth saying again: JBL is the heel commentator. He supports the heels.
