Who should of been given a longer opportunity to be Raw Comm

[floundertime]

In recent years Raw has gone through a few commentators. Who should have been given a longer opportunity or maybe who would you like to see return? Now that Vince isn’t screaming in there ears, who could succeed in the position again?

[polarbearpete]

Have to imagine Tom Phillips comes back one day. He’s still very young and seemed like a perfect successor to Cole.

[ejm olmos]

I hated Jimmy Smith on commentary, and Adnan Virk wasn’t very good in his short stint. Renee, as nice as it was to have a unique voice on commentary, was also really bad. Kevin Patrick is pretty replacement level, but I don’t mind him too much.

Tom, Dio, and Vic are all really good, and I always thought Tom should have gotten more of a shot to be the lead voice on one of the shows.

[welshpenguin]

Vic is great. He deserves another chance on Raw or Smackdown but selfishly I want to keep him in Nxt.

[darbus alan]

Tom Hannifan is doing good stuff in Impact and has great chemistry with Matt Rehwoldt (fka Aiden English). I don't know if there's mutual interest in him coming back, but I think he'd be solid now that Vince wouldn't be around to yell in his ear anymore.

I love Adman on the Dan Le Batard Show and the Meadowlark network. He was also a good baseball commentator. But it was just a bad fit in WWE.

[Rudy Gobert Fadeaway]

Screaming in a crowded bar that Adnan Virk should have been kept around for something. Was he bad? Yes. Did he sound like Mr. Peanutbutter processing wrestling in realtime? Yes.

But oh my god the man's voice and the f***ing insane shit he said was so pleasant to listen to. Normally bad wrestling commentators are just annoying and stupid, but Adnan Virk was like a golden retriever on the broadcast feed. It's like Bill Walton after getting roped in to commentating a wrestling show and just doing his best. I would take him over Kevin Patrick on Smackdown right now.

This man screamed PARDON ME WHILE I UNLOAD on live TV with the full conviction of a man who truly believed that he was about to unload at that very moment, and did not even try to explain what that meant. That is a beautiful man.

[Rudy Gobert Fadeaway]

Nov 11, 2023 16:56:22 GMT -5 welshpenguin said:

Vic is great. He deserves another chance on Raw or Smackdown but selfishly I want to keep him in Nxt.

I'm going to be so sad when Vic Joseph inevitably stops doing NXT commentary one day. I don't want to think of an NXT where things happen mid sentence and the man speaking doesn't transform in to a cartoon bear slipping on a banana peel. 

[welshpenguin]

Nov 11, 2023 17:51:11 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fadeaway said:

Nov 11, 2023 16:56:22 GMT -5 welshpenguin said:

Vic is great. He deserves another chance on Raw or Smackdown but selfishly I want to keep him in Nxt.

I'm going to be so sad when Vic Joseph inevitably stops doing NXT commentary one day. I don't want to think of an NXT where things happen mid sentence and the man speaking doesn't transform in to a cartoon bear slipping on a banana peel. 

I still miss Wade & Beth on Nxt commentary 😔

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

1. Should HAVE

2. ma.çé

[Jumpin' Jesse Walsh]

Nov 11, 2023 17:51:11 GMT -5 Rudy Gobert Fadeaway said:

Nov 11, 2023 16:56:22 GMT -5 welshpenguin said:

Vic is great. He deserves another chance on Raw or Smackdown but selfishly I want to keep him in Nxt.

I'm going to be so sad when Vic Joseph inevitably stops doing NXT commentary one day. I don't want to think of an NXT where things happen mid sentence and the man speaking doesn't transform in to a cartoon bear slipping on a banana peel. 

He should leave a pile of candy in the middle of the ring like Taker did with his hat.

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

tom phillips for sure

[chazraps]

Renee was great on commentary in NXT and just needed to find the right partner chemistry which Raw didn't have for her at the time.

Dio Madden was also awesome and I wish they did more with him.

[fw91]

Tom is the only one imo who didn't sound awkward.

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

Few names:

1. Tom Hannifan - as many have mentioned, dude is flourishing without Vince in his ear. He does a good job for IMPACT.
2. Vic Joseph - I have to think he'll get another shot at WWE Raw in the next few years.

Dark horse candidate:
3. Todd Grisham - Todd got kind of typecast in that nerdy Coachman backstage interviewer role but he's become a very good, credible combat sports announcer. I think he'd do a great job if he ever came back.

[A Little Doo Doo]

The way they treated Tom Phillips always baffled me, he had (has) a good voice and his excitement didn't feel forced like it does from everyone else.

[King Devitt and the Woke Mob]

Tom Tom.

He was 100% the successor to Michael Cole.
How you let someone go who's THAT good at what you're asking of them is beyond me.

He probably sneezed in front of Vince or something.

[Soultastic]

Felipe was p good.

[Hypnosis]

Nov 13, 2023 0:08:40 GMT -5 A Little Doo Doo said:

The way they treated Tom Phillips always baffled me, he had (has) a good voice and his excitement didn't feel forced like it does from everyone else.

He even sounds great in Impact video packages.