7 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE Roadblock

Downs...

5. No Ranallo

One of the cool things about a show like this is that there€™s the opportunity to try some different things: different staging, different matchups, etc.

But one area where WWE could have branched out and tried something different, the company passed. Instead of mixing up the announce team and giving fans a taste of Smackdown lead announcer Mauro Ranallo or NXT color commentator Corey Graves, we got the usual suspects, Michael Cole, JBL and Byron Saxton, the Raw announce team.

As we would see later in the event, that team would do its usual C+ job and manage to annoy. It€™s a shame that WWE didn€™t see fit to give fans a different look for the announce team (something they did at the Fastlane kickoff show with Ranallo doing commentary). Had Cole and company excelled, this might not have gotten a down mark, but as we€™ll see in a bit, that wasn€™t the case.