WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (June 8)

4. Intercontinental Title Time Is Joke Time

If you have the WWE Network, go back and watch a WCW pay-per-view from the 1980s or early 90s. You may be shocked. Heck, you don't even have to watch the matches, just listen to the announcers and compare it to today€™s crew. They don't strain to work in pop-culture references, they don't constantly yell annoying phrases (€œWe got ourselves a flying Uso!€) and they aren't just trying to crack each other up for hours on end. I get it, Vince McMahon won the war, he can do whatever he wants to do with his product. He can expand Raw to five hours every week and make El Torito and Hornswoggle have iron man dance off matches if he wanted to. But he should know that his announcers are painful to listen to, and inferior to more serious teams from the past. Case in point was the Intercontinental Title match on Raw. We had Wade Barrett vs. Rob Van Dam. With the right build, that could be a marquee match. Here you have Van Dam, one of the most extreme and high-flying wrestlers of the past 25 years taking on the newly crowned champ Barrett. It was a clash of styles and generations in the ring. But for the announcers, it was just an excuse to yell €œI've got some bad news!€ over and over again while laughing like they were on the verge of dying from it. You could also see Michael Cole rocking back and forth in his chair as if he was as disinterested as working on some spreadsheets in an office. Now sure, if I was sitting on a couch with a friend watching the show we may do awful impressions too. But it would be funny to us and only us.