8. No Mauro Ranallo On The Main Show
Now, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that Mauro Ranallo is the greatest wrestling commentator since Jim Ross, or that he is the saviour of the announce booth. He is good, that is for sure, but merely sitting him down there isn't going to make everything better all of a sudden. Even so, the difference between the booth with Mauro and the booth without Mauro is large enough to be noticeable. When his voice came out to begin proceedings on the pre-show last night, many watching would have been imbued with a certain sense of hope, a feeling of warmth that can only come from knowing there will be more than Michael Cole and JBL (and Byron) to listen to all evening. As it was, Ranallo called the pre-show match between Kalisto and Alberto Del Rio and nothing else. It was a cruel teaser, a tempting look at what people actually want with no payoff other than to increase the annoyance of the viewers. If WWE are serious about Ranallo, he needs to be made a full-time announcer for these special events.
John Bills
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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
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