A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Apr 22, 2023 22:12:12 GMT -5
I'm pretty over heel commentators in general, but the lead PBP guy should never be one. lol
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Post by darbus alan on Apr 22, 2023 22:28:17 GMT -5
Like most things with WWE, they just don't know when something that worked has reached a point where enough is enough and to stop. They have to run it into the ground until everyone is sick of it. I remember a quote, I wish I could attribute it to the right source, but this was years ago, talking about WWE's tendency to run jokes into the ground: "WWE is like a college girl who gets complimented on her outfit at a party, then wears that exact same outfit to every other party she goes to, hoping for the same compliment". So the WWE is Marge Simpson at the country club.
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Rave
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Post by Rave on Apr 22, 2023 22:35:04 GMT -5
He could’ve been a terrific heel manager during this time. Keeping him on commentary and not making his association with Jack Swagger a permanent thing was such a missed opportunity.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Apr 23, 2023 6:14:55 GMT -5
The worst part of Heel Cole is that I think he could've been a pretty solid heel color guy. Cole has a lot of great knowledge of wrestling ins and outs and has a great sense of humor and personality. I think Vince McMahon getting out of his ear did a lot to show just how good he could be when he's just being himself. And his clowning on Top Dolla for the botched suicide dive is an amusing running gag. But as others have said, heel play-by-play just doesn't work. Which brings up another reason why heel Cole kinda worked on NXT, but didn't work at all on RAW; on NXT, Cole was playing off of Josh Matthews, who was a decent play-by-play guy. On RAW, he was playing off of Jerry Lawler and Booker T, both of whom were infinitely worse at calling matches than he was.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Apr 23, 2023 11:31:28 GMT -5
I know it was awful for the product and went on way too long, but I loved it well past its sell by date.
I think if I watched any of it now it would likely mostly be misogynist, and I know I would be a lot less willing to listen to Cole parroting Vince viewpoints
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Post by nate5054 on Apr 23, 2023 18:55:16 GMT -5
It was extremely obnoxious to a point where I thought it was some of the greatest performance art ever, so I loved it.
That said, I get why people wouldn't appreciate art like that.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Apr 23, 2023 19:17:33 GMT -5
It was extremely obnoxious to a point where I thought it was some of the greatest performance art ever, so I loved it. That said, I get why people wouldn't appreciate art like that.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Apr 23, 2023 19:43:52 GMT -5
It made the product unlistenable when there's the lead commentator shitting on everything.
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Post by fw91 on Apr 23, 2023 20:08:39 GMT -5
I also laughed hard when he was dancing in the ring like a tool in the ring when Brian Christopher appeared that one RAW.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 23, 2023 21:56:10 GMT -5
His reaction to Fink announcing Punk's entrance always angers me.
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Post by Instant Classic on Apr 23, 2023 23:47:49 GMT -5
Really put a bad touch on Christian winning the world title in 2011.
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Post by Instant Classic on Apr 23, 2023 23:48:28 GMT -5
Re-watching that Ladder match with ADR and Christian, his over the topness heel commentary really took the moment away from Christian and Edge. Just commented this, should have read the thread first.
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schma
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Post by schma on Apr 24, 2023 3:40:10 GMT -5
I think I was annoyed by his complete burial of the women. Yeah karma put him on his ass once, but it was otherwise largely unanswered. He was I sufferable, but then I've rarely been a fan of heel announcing. Still, like others said, you can be a heelannouncer without just shitting on everyone.
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Post by government mule on Apr 24, 2023 5:47:16 GMT -5
Can you imagine the shit that Vince was spewing into Cole's headphones during this time? I imagine he was living vicariously through Cole and thoroughly enjoyed himself.
'Now call him a f***ing nerd again Cole, the no good scrawny piece of shit!'
'...... yes sir'
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Apr 24, 2023 18:29:49 GMT -5
It was so obnoxious between yelling over his commentary partners, constantly screaming about the miz, bashing the women's matches, berating the faces in a relentless, merciless manner one minute to trying to be the onscreen pitch representative of the company the next... It was exhausting to consume to the point that it turned me off from regularly watching wwe and I haven't been back since.
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