When WWE shook up its announce teams a few months ago, it was a strange thing to not see or hear Jerry The King Lawler on Raw. After all, hes been a constant voice on WWEs flagship program for nearly all of Raws run. But his absence has only magnified what many fans have known for the past few years: Lawler has reached a point in his career where he should be put out to pasture. That fact was on full display during WrestleMania, with Lawlers bad jokes (Its a good thing the Divas arent mind-readers. If they were, Id get slapped.), silly observations and high-pitched yelling detracting from the event rather than adding to it. The King will forever receive and deserve a great deal of respect from fans, but its reached the point where tradition has to give way to progress. There are plenty of better color men in waiting Booker T, William Regal, Corey Graves. Its time to give them a chance.
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.
