3 Ups & 8 Downs From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 37

7. Rough First Day

WWE decided to shake up their Raw announce team on Monday night, moving Corey Graves back in place of Samoa Joe. OK, that’s a lateral move. But then rather than ditching Byron Saxton, they kept him and tossed Tom Phillips for former ESPN announcer Adnan Virk.

And man, Virk really sounded like a guy calling his first wrestling event. (Yes, we know he actually was calling his first wrestling event, but the goal shouldn’t be for it to be that obvious that he doesn’t know what he’s doing.)

Virk couldn’t get wrestling names right, calling a vertical suplex “that move,” a back elbow a “shoulder tackle,” a seated senton “look at that athleticism,” an enzuigiri a “strong kick,@ and a hip attack “turning herself around”. He also called the Viking Raider the “Viking Express,” confused Jaxson Ryker with Elias, and called Drew McIntyre the Celtic Warrior.

Now, Virk got better as the show wore on, and he did a nice job actually talking and hosting the show. But if he’s going to call wrestling matches, WWE really needs to tutor him and have him learn moves so he can call them properly, because it felt like he had never seen in-ring action before.