The WWE Half-Year Awards 2018

4. Best Commentator: Corey Graves

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So poor is the pool of WWE's main roster mouthpieces that Corey Graves defaults this award - even if it's not been his finest year.

Graves is a victim of his own reliability. Since being forced to cover two shows after bully-boy JBL was booted upstairs, the former James Keenan has gradually become less than sterling, with excess beginning exposing errors. Graves' fatigue was evident at the Greatest Royal Rumble, as he was audibly apprehensive of a censure-inducing slip-up. Yet even during that farce, he emerged from the commentary booth with most credit. It's been the same story on the weekly broadcasts; Michael Cole is as bad as ever, Tom Phillips is competent in the same style as an automated Tannoy system, Jonathan Coachman has bizarrely proved a downgrade on Booker T, and Byron Saxton... well, who knows. Graves, without having to try very hard, remains head and shoulders above his colleagues.

This is one of the company's biggest areas of weakness, which is really saying something.

Runner-up: Nigel McGuinness

Terrific - but relegated to the 205 Live dead spot. Would prosper on either Raw or SmackDown.

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