WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (July 17)

6. Byron’s Choice

Kalisto Tyler Breeze

I feel like I’m starting to figure out what it is that makes Byron Saxton so bad at his job: the man is simply inauthentic in everything he does.

Watch him at the announcer's table when they’re on camera. He’ll try to do something funny, then he immediately stops and looks at the camera with a wide grin, so we all know he was just kidding. What a kidder, he almost had me going!

This week he proved that his character is unable to process what he sees in front of him. On SmackDown, Jerry Lawler asked him if Kalisto would be one of his first draft picks. He replied that without a doubt he’d be his first or second pick. King was rightfully confused, surprised and highly embarrassed over this.

Byron is afraid to treat what he’s watching as “real." Because if what he was watching was real, Kalisto wouldn’t be a top 20 pick. He was destroyed by Rusev and lost the US Title. That alone would make him a bad draft.

That would be stating the obvious, which is something any announcer in any other sport would note. That would lend Byron credibility, but he pretends because Kalisto is a good guy, and the company line is that we should like him, then Byron blindly over-supports him. But who is it that keeps supporting Byron?

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