Fade
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Post by Fade on Aug 5, 2023 11:32:38 GMT -5
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Aug 5, 2023 11:34:41 GMT -5
Too much Michael Cole for my liking, even though he's been mostly OK lately.
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Post by hashtagdaley/JudasDay on Aug 5, 2023 11:38:56 GMT -5
Yesssssss! Barrett rocks, and Cole’s way better than the dude now. Gonna make the show feel very different!
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Post by polarbearpete on Aug 5, 2023 11:46:09 GMT -5
Fantastic! Cole is the best and Kevin Patrick seems like a nice guy but I don’t really enjoy his play by play.
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Post by PKO on Aug 5, 2023 12:11:02 GMT -5
So…did they ever reveal why they got rid of Tom Phillips? Ever since he left it’s been a steady cycle of bad play-by-play guys who try and fail. They even had him replace his replacement at one point! I’ve heard him recently on Impact and he’s still really good, I just don’t get why they got rid of him. He’s what the company desperately needs.
Cole and Barrett are currently the best team so it makes sense to have them on RAW. That Smackdown team isn’t very inspiring. Cole really is much better without/with less Vince but I don’t think pulling double duty is the best move.
They really need to invest in the commentary team down at the performance centre. A couple young men and women to train as play by play; don’t throw them straight to the main roster, let them do the C list shows when they’re ready, give them a few years to develop before cutting loses.
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Post by cornettesracket on Aug 5, 2023 12:16:06 GMT -5
So…did they ever reveal why they got rid of Tom Phillips? Ever since he left it’s been a steady cycle of bad play-by-play guys who try and fail. They even had him replace his replacement at one point! I’ve heard him recently on Impact and he’s still really good, I just don’t get why they got rid of him. He’s what the company desperately needs. Cole and Barrett are currently the best team so it makes sense to have them on RAW. That Smackdown team isn’t very inspiring. Cole really is much better without/with less Vince but I don’t think pulling double duty is the best move. They really need to invest in the commentary team down at the performance centre. A couple young men and women to train as play by play; don’t throw them straight to the main roster, let them do the C list shows when they’re ready, give them a few years to develop before cutting loses. It’s what nxt level should be about. I couldn’t even tell you who does commentary on level up, but I think Vic Joseph is really good on NXT.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Aug 5, 2023 12:17:55 GMT -5
So…did they ever reveal why they got rid of Tom Phillips? Ever since he left it’s been a steady cycle of bad play-by-play guys who try and fail. They even had him replace his replacement at one point! I’ve heard him recently on Impact and he’s still really good, I just don’t get why they got rid of him. He’s what the company desperately needs. Cole and Barrett are currently the best team so it makes sense to have them on RAW. That Smackdown team isn’t very inspiring. Cole really is much better without/with less Vince but I don’t think pulling double duty is the best move. They really need to invest in the commentary team down at the performance centre. A couple young men and women to train as play by play; don’t throw them straight to the main roster, let them do the C list shows when they’re ready, give them a few years to develop before cutting loses. I know Tom was sexting with another woman who wasn't his wife/fiancee, which was a bad look if she wasn't aware of it, but I dunno if it had anything to do with things. Never got why they kept f***ing around so much with him, I thought he was great.
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Aug 5, 2023 12:21:20 GMT -5
Not a fan of having a 3 man commentary team again.
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Post by hbkid718 on Aug 5, 2023 12:28:57 GMT -5
Level Up is Bryon Saxton & Blake Howard and once in a while Mr. Stone joins them.
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Post by hbkid718 on Aug 5, 2023 12:31:37 GMT -5
Wow. What a shocker. Cole being with Patrick on Smackdown can only help him improve so all of the haters can stop saying that he's the worst commentator in WWE History. And if he was that bad, Triple H would have fired him a long time ago, so if Hunter sees potential in him then everyone else needs to be patient & give him a chance. But who's going to do Main Event with Byron Saxton? Patrick is good there. All of this is fine, but next is getting rid of Booker T on NXT. He doesn't even know the rules of a Mixed Tag Team Match.
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Post by XIII on Aug 5, 2023 12:33:29 GMT -5
Nah. Too much Cole, people going to get sick of him again.
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Post by theironyuppie on Aug 5, 2023 12:37:51 GMT -5
Wade Barrett to finally be reunited with the TSSSSSSUNAMI!
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Post by City Duck on Aug 5, 2023 12:41:41 GMT -5
No Kevin Patrick on RAW and no Kevin Patrick lead commentary on Smackdown
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Post by darbus alan on Aug 5, 2023 12:52:41 GMT -5
So…did they ever reveal why they got rid of Tom Phillips? Ever since he left it’s been a steady cycle of bad play-by-play guys who try and fail. They even had him replace his replacement at one point! I’ve heard him recently on Impact and he’s still really good, I just don’t get why they got rid of him. He’s what the company desperately needs. Cole and Barrett are currently the best team so it makes sense to have them on RAW. That Smackdown team isn’t very inspiring. Cole really is much better without/with less Vince but I don’t think pulling double duty is the best move. They really need to invest in the commentary team down at the performance centre. A couple young men and women to train as play by play; don’t throw them straight to the main roster, let them do the C list shows when they’re ready, give them a few years to develop before cutting loses. Yeah, Tom and Matt Rehwoldt have some really solid chemistry on Impact. I never figured on the former Aiden English being so good at color commentary out the gate. Never got why WWE was so quick to let Tom go as I thought he was pretty solid.
Kevin Patrick's... bland. Not flat out awful and he does have a nice-sounding voice. But it's lacking in a lot of what makes for a good PBP commentator. Hopefully being under Cole's direct tutelage will help him become less bland.
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Post by CMWaters on Aug 5, 2023 12:55:25 GMT -5
I wonder if they put Cole on Raw just so they could get more of him berating Dominik like he did during the build up to WrestleMania.
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Post by Perd on Aug 5, 2023 13:10:35 GMT -5
Doing commentary on Raw is like managing the Yankees in the 70s and 80s. You ain’t gonna be there long.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Aug 5, 2023 13:13:50 GMT -5
This feels like a move to push Kevin out. He calls MLS almost every Saturday so this is going to be a rough travel schedule for him during the season (which is basically over half the year).
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Post by MrElijah on Aug 5, 2023 13:35:51 GMT -5
Doing commentary on Raw is like managing the Yankees in the 70s and 80s. You ain’t gonna be there long. Billy Martin makes Marty Janetty's fired/hired crap look like stable employment.
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A Little Doo Doo
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Aug 5, 2023 15:26:06 GMT -5
Wade Barrett to finally be reunited with the TSSSSSSUNAMI!
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Post by clifford on Aug 5, 2023 15:45:53 GMT -5
Cole's gotta have the longest run as 'the' main play by play dude in the company more than anyone in history, right?
More than Monsoon, more than Solie, more than JR, more than Schiavone...its kinda crazy to think about
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