20 Things We Need To See From Lucha Underground Season 2

7. A Babysitter For Matt Striker

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Matt Striker can be a challenge to listen to. He's often too worried about being a human thesaurus than he is about calling his damn matches, and he's guaranteed to say something gross and weird any time a woman is onscreen. I'm not suggesting that someone should constantly be talking to him through a headset a la Michael Cole, but Striker needs someone to keep him from getting too, well, Matt Striker about everything.

Vampiro was really very good (usually) about steering Striker toward the match, as well as subtly calling him on his WWE-ingrained biases. Unfortunately, Vamp is now Pentagón Jr.'s Sith mentor and therefore unlikely to strap on his dad bandanna for more commentary duty any time soon. Michael Schiavello was all right, but he and Striker couldn't seem to decide which of them was color and which was play-by-play. I know Jim Ross is too expensive and Joey Styles is rooting around in a warehouse somewhere for a WWE YouTube show, but LU badly needs a seasoned commentator to keep Striker on his toes.

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