CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Apr 20, 2015 15:11:23 GMT -5
Was f***ing awful.
Holy shit this is bad. I'm watching the first episode of Raw from January 11, 1993, & I forgot just how bad he was. I turned 14 years old that May, but even then I knew he was terrible. He was only around for 13 episodes, with yesterday actually being the 22nd anniversary of his last show.
Bartlett brought absolutely nothing to the table wrestling wise. He instead spent his time telling shitty jokes, calling Doink the Clown "Dork the Clown" (which Vince repeated several times before correcting himself) & doing a horrifyingly bad Mike Tyson impersonation. The whole thing is a f***ing train wreck & we're not even at the main event yet! I can't even enjoy Savage at the announce desk with this ass-bag "comedian" constantly running his mouth.
Bad. Bad bad bad bad bad bad. BAD.
A quick side question here: Anyone know why the dates listed on the Network are off by a day? EP 1 is listed as taking place on 1/10/93, EP 2 on 1/17/93 and so on. While later shows were recorded a head of time, the first two episodes we broadcast live from the Manhattan Center on Monday's 1/11/93 & 1/18/93. Looks like they get the 5/31/93 correct & stay that way till they list 8/15/93 instead of 8/16/93. That's as far as I checked, but it's still pretty annoying.
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Post by Main Eventer on Apr 20, 2015 16:58:03 GMT -5
Oh, just wait until Rob does his Elvis impersonation.
For the whole episode.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Apr 20, 2015 18:03:51 GMT -5
Rob Bartlett barely exists in my mind. I remember RAW from that time but not the announcing.
He's very similar to an announcer that ECW had when they were still Eastern Championship Wrestling and was there right up until just after they'd gone Extreme. He too, was highly annoying like Bartlett. I'm thinking Vince saw what ECW was doing and tried to make RAW "grittier".
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Post by cjh on Apr 20, 2015 18:27:27 GMT -5
Rob Bartlett barely exists in my mind. I remember RAW from that time but not the announcing. He's very similar to an announcer that ECW had when they were still Eastern Championship Wrestling and was there right up until just after they'd gone Extreme. He too, was highly annoying like Bartlett. I'm thinking Vince saw what ECW was doing and tried to make RAW "grittier". Bartlett left just around the same time ECW started their weekly TV show. ECW's other commentators were pretty bad, though. Joey Styles actually left briefly in 1994, but the other announcers sucked enough that ECW fixed whatever caused him to leave and made him sole announcer. Was it ever explained why Bobby Heenan was suddenly allowed to replace Bartlett. I don't remember a McMahon, Heenan, and Bartlett team, just Bartlett with McMahon and Savage.
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CM Dazz
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Post by CM Dazz on Apr 20, 2015 18:39:20 GMT -5
Oh, just wait until Rob does his Elvis impersonation. For the whole episode. Ohhh boy. Can. Not. Wait. Rob Bartlett barely exists in my mind. I remember RAW from that time but not the announcing. He's very similar to an announcer that ECW had when they were still Eastern Championship Wrestling and was there right up until just after they'd gone Extreme. He too, was highly annoying like Bartlett. I'm thinking Vince saw what ECW was doing and tried to make RAW "grittier". I had forgotten all about him till I saw/heard him. Then I remembered. Really wish I could've kept those memories suppressed.
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Post by Rave on Apr 21, 2015 0:03:21 GMT -5
I watched the first episode of Raw a while back, and the first thing that leaped out at me was that Bartlett was so f***ing awful that it was ridiculous. I swear, there was at least one point where Vince was audibly annoyed and prob'ly thinking "Why did I hire this jackass?".
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Post by Aceorton on Apr 21, 2015 13:18:13 GMT -5
I can't even enjoy Savage at the announce desk...
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Apr 21, 2015 13:36:06 GMT -5
Yep, he's been brought up a lot...
Dude is one of the worst commentators WWF/WWE have ever had.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2015 13:57:54 GMT -5
Was it ever explained why Bobby Heenan was suddenly allowed to replace Bartlett. I don't remember a McMahon, Heenan, and Bartlett team, just Bartlett with McMahon and Savage. Yes. When Vince and Bartlett got together and realized "it wasn't working" (Rob's words), Heenan replaced him - and Vince's on-air explanation for the swap was something like "Bartlett heard that Bobby was coming to Monday Night Raw, and he didn't want any part of that so he hightailed it outta here!"
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