9 Potential Replacements For JBL On WWE Commentary
7. Big Show
Surprisingly enough, Big Show has demonstrated that he’s actually quite gifted on the microphone. While doing guest commentary during some of his recent storylines, Show actually did a great job of selling the angle he was taking part in, and showed a few bits of humor that you wouldn’t normally expect from the serious character he’s currently portraying (or at least tries to).
As such, once the Big Show starts slowing down to the point where he can’t wrestle regularly, maybe he should try working on commentary instead. Not only would he be able to fill duel roles as either the play-by-play commentator or the color commentator, but he would also bring in a wrestler’s perspective, which is something that’s sorely lacking from JBL’s commentary, despite Bradshaw’s regular references to his own past (which, more often than not, are irrelevant to the discussion in question).
While Bradshaw does sell certain wrestlers’ offense, especially those with whom he has wrestled in his heyday, he lacks the more contemporary wisdom of someone like Big Show, who has been wrestling for longer than JBL has, and actually knows how the wrestlers on the roster think and act.
Simply put, Big Show has demonstrated that he can be well-spoken, he can make strong arguments, and he’s got a unique voice that would draw listeners in, instead of driving them away like JBL does.