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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Jul 2, 2015 16:32:31 GMT -5
The main problem is nothing he says ever feels natural or 'real'. JR, even at his corniest, you bought that he felt what he was saying. Cole pretty much always is very apparent that he's reciting stuff. I'll grant you that the material he has to work with is shit as well. Bullshit. See his calls of Bryan, Eddie, and Mankind's title wins. They all sounded really fake. I mean, of course they were, it's rasslin; but even his emotional voice comes across as forced.
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Post by MrElijah on Jul 2, 2015 16:48:46 GMT -5
The fact that you said that Vince called moves makes me laugh so much. He would call everything WHAT A MANEUVER! Haha I mean it! I watched Bret vs Owen from WM10 the other day and I was totally shocked by Vince. In between the "look at that manouvre!" there was some definitely some move names. I guess just wasn't used to commentators talking 100% about what was happening in the ring. Oh Vince knew some moves he called Ahmed Johnson's Pearl River Plunge a Tiger Driver, he even said this about heel Doink: "He's a great wrestler, why does he need to resort to these clown actions?!"
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jul 2, 2015 17:08:30 GMT -5
Between this He calls them his fireflies, John and he calls that.... Cole just pisses me off
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Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Jul 2, 2015 17:14:23 GMT -5
I feel Coles time on SD with JBL is underrated.
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Post by zrowsdower on Jul 2, 2015 17:31:34 GMT -5
Yeah...and he makes having tattoos look as cool as wearing fanny packs in the 90's.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 2, 2015 19:53:05 GMT -5
There was a very brief window where Cole was entertaining. It was during NXT 3 the diva one. That show was so abysmal and he shit on it exactly the right amount to make you laugh, while also shutting up enough so you could watch to make sure you agreed with him Also the greatest NXT call: THEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUSTHEOCTOPUS TAPOUTTAPOUTTAPOUTTAPOUTTAPOUT GO TO SLEEP DO WHAT YOU DO! AJ WINS! Then they moved that Cole character over to RAW and he started talking over everyone and it became shitty immediately. Honestly, his work on NXT is the main reason I can't bring myself to hate Michael Cole. Is he lame as shit most of the time? Oh most definitely. But I feel like NXT3 proved that's more on Vince pressing him to be a total non-stop shill at all times than it is on him as an announcer. In fact, I think most of the announcers could do with some liberty at the announcing table.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 3, 2015 4:16:16 GMT -5
Yeah...and he makes having tattoos look as cool as wearing fanny packs in the 90's. HEY. I am a dedicated Cole Miner, and you can insult my lord and saviour all you like, but don't you dare bring fanny packs into this.
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Post by Fauxnaki on Jul 3, 2015 5:23:52 GMT -5
its time for cole to step down from commentary hes fantastic at his job as vinces puppet. But people just dont like him
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Post by revolver86 on Jul 3, 2015 14:20:58 GMT -5
Hate his commentary, but love his sit down interviews on WWE.com. Take him off the booth and show the interviews, on TV.
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Post by g1megatronfan on Jul 3, 2015 14:46:37 GMT -5
If Cole tells me someone or something is "cool" I immediately think it's the opposite. He makes Todd Pettingill seem like the coolest person to have ever lived.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 15:28:33 GMT -5
Bullshit. See his calls of Bryan, Eddie, and Mankind's title wins. They all sounded really fake. I mean, of course they were, it's rasslin; but even his emotional voice comes across as forced. Not a fan of his title win calls either. But, his call when Bryan got robbed at Elimination Chamber before WM 30, that was a great one. He can do the faux outrage thing pretty well.
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Post by baerrtt on Jul 4, 2015 4:24:29 GMT -5
I've always thought that the only difference between Cole and Vince as a commentator back in the day is that the latter, like Gorilla Monsoon, had a great enthusiastic sports voice. To me there was nothing 'fake sounding' about the outrage he sold on what The Authority was doing to Daniel Bryan or his ecstatic proclamation at Bryan's eventual success. If anything his commentary is better when he has somebody else he works well with (Tazz and JBL once upon a time). I listened to Gorilla do commentary without Heenan or Ventura by his side and quite frankly I almost understand why smarks back in the day regarded him as badly as Cole is by the community nowadays.
I've been watching the promotion since the late 70s and Michael is nowhere near the worst commentator they've ever had. Quite frankly if you were to do a top 5 worst commentators in WWWF/WWF/WWE history I wouldn't place him.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Jul 4, 2015 5:52:22 GMT -5
Hey, can we bring Japanese Michael Cole back to the States?
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Post by spagett on Jul 4, 2015 6:35:48 GMT -5
Credit where it's due.
He was really good today. Miles better than normal.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jul 4, 2015 6:37:37 GMT -5
Amazing how good you can be when you don't have a senile old fool yelling in your ear every five seconds
I don't think we can really blame Cole anymore... he was on point tonight when he was basically... Free
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Post by FALLOUT Goldashausen #BLM on Jul 4, 2015 7:26:14 GMT -5
I was deflated when I heard Cole and Saxton were calling the show, but both ended up doing a great job. Spontaneity is lightyears better than sterility. The most disappointing aspect of BITE is that it will likely be business as usual come Monday night.
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