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Post by BlackoutCreature on Mar 30, 2014 9:39:32 GMT -5
Ok, so here's a question for any long time NWA/JCP/Territory fans out there. I've been watching Starrcade 85 on the WWE Network lately and they have pro wrestling legend Johnny Weaver working as kind of a backstage correspondent/interviewer. And he's horrible at it. His delivery is stilted and he just can't hide the fact that he's obviously reading off of a cue card of some sort (I don't think they had teleprompters back then). But after looking up his bio on Wikipedia I discovered he actually did do commentary throughout a good chunk of the 80's. So I gotta ask to anybody who was actually listening to his commentary back in the day, was he any good at it? Was Starrcade 85 just a bad day for him? Or was he just kept in a role he wasn't suited for all that time simply because he had enough seniority to not get removed from it?
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Mar 30, 2014 22:56:28 GMT -5
Kind of interested in this myself, as I actually don't remember him on commentary. Perhaps calling the match was easier for him than the backstage roll?
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Post by lildude8218 on Mar 30, 2014 23:09:15 GMT -5
if you look up that massively long "NWA in 1984" series on Youtube there's a portion dedicated to Tully Blanchard's feud with Johnny Weaver where he attacked Weaver while he was doing commentary and wound up taking over for him for a while.
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Post by Racksman on Mar 31, 2014 16:13:23 GMT -5
There were alot, ALOT of bad announcers and commentators in the NWA in the 80's, and Weaver was absolutely one of them. David Crockett may have been the worst announcer in the history of wrestling and he steadily had a job. Tony Schiavone and later Jim Ross were head and shoulders above everyone else.
And yes, that includes Gordon Solie, who I'm sorry, is the most overrated announcer ever in my opinion.
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