If you grew up listening to the likes of Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby The Brain Heenan, Jesse The Body Ventura and Jim Ross calling matches, then todays commentary team has to make your ears bleed. Its so painful at times that muting the television might be an option. The foolishness was at its peak during the kickoff match between R-Truth and King Barrett. First, Michael Cole suggested that Truth had as much right to consider himself a king as Barrett completely ignoring the fact that Barrett won a tournament (beating Truth along the way, mind you). Then Jerry Lawler badly screwed up a bad joke about Barrett saying hes bigger than the Beatles, which would make Ringo Star roll over in his grave. Sadly, Lawler picked one of the two members of the Fab Four still going strong today. It didnt help later when Cole reminded Lawler indirectly of their awful 2011 feud by mentioning that he had been knighted by the Queen at some point. If you had forgotten that horrible memory, sorry for reminding you. Its bad enough when the match is bad, but when the commentary also is worse, it just drags everything down.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
