5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Saturday Night's Main Event (24 May - Results & Review)

4. Commentary Hiccups

With the exception of the outstanding duo of Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett, WWE commentary hasn’t consistently been a strong suit of the product for a long, long time. Saturday night, they logged a pretty dismal performance at multiple points.

Pat McAfee got things started on the wrong foot during the opening match when he lost his mind over Bron Breakker leaping from the apron to the announce desk to deliver a clothesline, yelling, “How is that even possible?!?”, despite Bron doing that same move every week on Raw. McAfee came across like a pre-programmed chatterbox and someone hit one of the buttons for a canned comment.

Jesse Ventura wasn’t immune from the commentary jinx. He went on a mini-rant about how NBC would never have allowed a steel cage match on Saturday Night’s Main Event back in the 80s… just seconds after Michael Cole talked about a 1986 SNME steel cage match between Hulk Hogan and Paul Orndorff and an ’89 cage match between Hogan and Big Boss Man.

Cole (as usual) flubbed a bunch of things, remarking that R-Truth was coming out in “old school” John Cena gear, when Truth was wearing farewell tour gear from a couple of months earlier. He said Chelsea Green was wearing “red, white, and blue” gear when it was red, blue, and gold. And he called Jey Uso’s splash – the same one he’s been doing for 15 years – a frogsplash twice.

Tighten up, guys. It’s bad enough that you don’t even bother calling wrestling moves, resulting in a generation of fans not knowing what a bow-and-arrow or La Magistral is. The least you can do is not sound like you don’t even grasp less than the basics.