3. Ideas For The Commentary Team?
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@DarraghFla What factors do you feel truly make a commentary team beneficial to the talents and the show itself?
There's a few things that they should always keep in mind: Call the moves, get the stories over, know when to be quiet so the pictures can tell the story and add in humor once in a while too. It's not that hard to call wrestling matches. The best teams in WWE history in my opinion were Gorilla Monsoon with Bobby Heenan and Jim Ross with Jerry Lawler in the late 1990s, early 2000s. All you need are two guys that are going to know their role with the play by play guy as the face and the heel guy throwing in jokes while siding with the heels. When it gets to be more than that it's just too complicated. The main duo of Michael Cole and John Bradshaw Layfield isn't bad on Smackdown without Jerry Lawler making his bad jokes. However, they can be very annoying at times because they're too busy promoting things other than the match and it's distracting as a viewer. A big problem with today's commentary team is they are over produced. Call the damn match! There are too many times where things are going on in the ring with the announcers not calling it because they are bickering over something else or talking about some Twitter feud that we don't care about. If the announcers don't care about the action in the ring then why should we, as viewers, give a damn about it? It hurts the show when the announcers have no interest in the actual match.