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Post by Gunhaver on Jan 25, 2024 19:20:23 GMT -5
I don't remember their names, but I watched some CZW compilations on Tubi and everyone on the announce team has big "I wasn't supposed to work today" energy.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 30, 2024 9:00:25 GMT -5
I haven't read the entire thread, have we mentioned Kriss Kloss yet? The entire AEW spanish announce team. They're so bad, AEW's TV broadcasting deal with Latin America failed because nobody wanted it. Oh my god, it got worse after the racist guy? how is that possible? Please tell me more about this
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Post by Soultastic on Jan 30, 2024 9:02:20 GMT -5
I haven't read the entire thread, have we mentioned Kriss Kloss yet? The entire AEW spanish announce team. They're so bad, AEW's TV broadcasting deal with Latin America failed because nobody wanted it. Oh my god, it got worse after the racist guy? how is that possible? Please tell me more about this I never actually listened enough to know about the racist guy. They're just incredibly annoying. AEW had a deal with Space in LatAm, they broadcasted Dynamite on TV and Rampage on Youtube. Since TV has the SAP option, everyone just switched to english commentary. But Rampage got very little views and people constantly complained about commentary on Space's twitter, to the point that the network itself aknowledged it. Then Dynamite was also moved to Youtube and at that point anyone interested decided to pirate the show. Then the deal fell through and you could get everything on FiteTV, which was awesome, until AEW cut another deal with a scammy streaming service called Vix and weekly shows on Fite were no longer available to LatAm. And now no one's happy.
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Post by koreycaskets on Jan 30, 2024 9:36:51 GMT -5
Tenay
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Post by Venti on Jan 30, 2024 13:35:11 GMT -5
Mauro Ranallo. I feel bad saying it cause he seems like a pretty cool dude, and I know he's had his personal struggles.
But he's all over the NJPW DVD's I have and bro never let's anything breathe, just nonstop loud "announcer voice"
Excalibur really annoys me.
I honestly dislike most modern commentary. It may not even be the announcers fault, it could just be how they're directed. But it all needs to be dialed back a bit. I shouldn't get sensory overload watching a damn wrestling match lol.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 30, 2024 14:00:50 GMT -5
With KP gone, it's Booker T, Kevin Kelly, and Corey Graves for current commentators. For older ones, I've never, ever liked Joey Styles. Josh Matthews also sucked in TNA/Impact.
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Post by Chiral on Jan 30, 2024 14:16:49 GMT -5
Kriss Kloss, one of his catchphrases is just pretending to cream himself.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 30, 2024 14:21:42 GMT -5
I think Mauro's the biggest example I can think of that there hasn't been a lot of talk about yet. Find everything about him utterly grating, especially his constant references and tendency to just repeatedly saying the dumbest thing you've ever heard six times a night.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jan 30, 2024 15:13:14 GMT -5
Grisham sounded like he was reading out his captor's demands.
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Post by Cyno on Jan 30, 2024 16:54:45 GMT -5
Oh yeah, Jonathan Coachman was f***ing awful. I think my mind blocked out on how bad he was.
The only entertainment I ever got from him was when he was a guest on the Dan LeBatard Show when Stugotz thought he was a white guy.
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Post by malloc on Jan 30, 2024 19:59:20 GMT -5
I know he's considered sacred, but I never liked Joey Styles. He comes off as smarmy and arrogant like that one kid in school who brags about having uncensored sub anime Was fine when I heard him on a copied vhs in the 90s. Then when the DVDs came out in the 2000s I started to notice how forced his "OH MY GOD!" was when you saw several big matches with big spots on a highlight DVD, good at calling the action and keeping up with the pace but you got to notice how fake and forced some of his commentary was. It wouldn't have been the same if he wasn't there but he is not great. Its a time and place thing.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jan 31, 2024 8:27:29 GMT -5
Oh yeah, Jonathan Coachman was f***ing awful. I think my mind blocked out on how bad he was. The only entertainment I ever got from him was when he was a guest on the Dan LeBatard Show when Stugotz thought he was a white guy. I always thought face Coachman was a bit of a waste of space, but I found heel Coachman to be absolutely insufferable. Everything he said and did just struck me as a really contrived attempt at getting heat, and not in a "Ooh, what a bastard" way, in a way that made me feel slightly embarrassed.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Jan 31, 2024 9:12:07 GMT -5
Jerry Lawler from the minute he discovered the word "puppies" onward is just an embarrassment. Went from being the best colour commentator around to making every episode of RAW sound like an evening with your cross, drunk horndog uncle.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 31, 2024 9:18:36 GMT -5
I haven't read the entire thread, have we mentioned Kriss Kloss yet? I mentioned him. He's the dirt worst. How can one's signature call be screeching like someone just swung a sledgehammer into his balls?
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Jan 31, 2024 9:20:30 GMT -5
Also, while I'm back in this thread, I want to add Gino Gambino to this list.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jan 31, 2024 9:20:59 GMT -5
I haven't read the entire thread, have we mentioned Kriss Kloss yet? I mentioned him. He's the dirt worst. How can one's signature call be screeching like someone just swung a sledgehammer into his balls? Imagine being the worst part of a product when that product is WSX. Or XPW! Please note I said the product specifically, because everything else about XPW is actually the worst part of it.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 31, 2024 9:30:50 GMT -5
Also, while I'm back in this thread, I want to add Gino Gambino to this list. I feel like he exists in this space where he'd probably be fairly welcome as a guest presence but for whole shows he gets extremely grating.
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Post by theresalwaysanegon on Jan 31, 2024 12:15:37 GMT -5
The guy who replaced Kevin Kelly for NJPW currently. Kevin Kelly wasn't great, but at least he had some sort of personality and didn't always sound like he was just reading off a page of notes.
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Post by tafkaga on Jan 31, 2024 12:47:08 GMT -5
Am I the only one who kind of liked Josh Matthews and Matt Striker on ECW?
Yes, I hate Matt Striker 99% of the time, but for some reason I found them refreshing to Cole/Lawler or whatever pairings they had going on the main shows at the time.
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Post by Fundertaker on Jan 31, 2024 13:31:26 GMT -5
Am I the only one who kind of liked Josh Matthews and Matt Striker on ECW? Yes, I hate Matt Striker 99% of the time, but for some reason I found them refreshing to Cole/Lawler or whatever pairings they had going on the main shows at the time. Josh only started to be obnoxious on the tail end of his ECW run. I really liked it when he and, of all people, Bill DeMott did the commentary on Velocity.
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