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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 31, 2024 21:31:04 GMT -5
Here are the most recent three short time WWE Raw announcers.
They each had their flaws and they each had a chance to shine.
Of the three, which one was your favorite that you wished had a longer stint on Raw?
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Post by DichEvans on Jan 31, 2024 21:57:51 GMT -5
Adnan never got to grow into the role, Kevin was good, and Jimmy Smith was also good.
I think a lot of people forget, Michael Cole and JR took years to become good. Tom Phillips was getting really good, and Vince hated him (probably because he did not find him hot or something), so he was let go.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jan 31, 2024 22:10:03 GMT -5
I never got the Jimmy Smith hate, honestly.
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jan 31, 2024 22:11:20 GMT -5
Adnan's unintended comedic heights in WWE might never be reached again so I'll pick him
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Jan 31, 2024 22:12:31 GMT -5
Adnan's unintended comedic heights in WWE might never be reached again so I'll pick him Remember how excited he got for the RUNNING POWERSLAM?
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Post by UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm on Jan 31, 2024 22:14:04 GMT -5
Adnan's unintended comedic heights in WWE might never be reached again so I'll pick him Remember how excited he got for the RUNNING POWERSLAM? my favorite is when braun was getting ready to do his train thing around the ring and this idiot screams WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT lovely stuff. absolute ass but lovely stuff
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Post by The Kevstaaa on Jan 31, 2024 22:15:49 GMT -5
Andan purely because it makes me think of General Adnan randomly making it into a WWE 2K game.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 31, 2024 22:28:43 GMT -5
Adnan Virk's best WWE commentary: Jimmy Smith's better WWE Commentary moment: Kevin Patrick: They all truly did show some glimpses here and there, but I guess WWE management just grew impatient or in the case of Virk super impatient with their presence on air and got rid of them.
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Post by Fade on Jan 31, 2024 22:43:54 GMT -5
Jimmy.
He was perfectly competent. I barely remember Virk which says a lot. Kevin Patrick will haunt my dreams.
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Post by darbus alan on Jan 31, 2024 23:01:23 GMT -5
He wasn't great on Raw, but I was a big Adman fan because of the Dan LeBatard Show.
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Post by City Duck on Jan 31, 2024 23:02:52 GMT -5
I want another month of Adnan Virk so bad. It was like having Mr. Peanutbutter on commentary. He was terrible but in the most endearing way possible where I wish I endured more awful late pandemic RAW to appreciate him.
Jimmy Smith as a wrestling commentator was like the definition of mid. The kind of mid that you don't really appreciate until after you've experienced The Irish Terror.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 31, 2024 23:11:09 GMT -5
Jimmy Smith was simply ok, which makes him the best of the bunch lol
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 1, 2024 0:43:21 GMT -5
I liked Jimmy Smith for the most part
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Post by Perd on Feb 1, 2024 0:56:40 GMT -5
I never got the Jimmy Smith hate, honestly. Yep, I thought he was a perfectly serviceable play-by-play guy. He wasn’t going to make anyone forget prime JR. But I never felt he detracted from the show.
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Post by 67 more on Feb 1, 2024 1:37:33 GMT -5
Jimmy Smith's only real problem is that he called every other move beautiful, regardless of how it was executed.
Virk knew zero about wrestling, at one point he called a total of seven moves in a three hour show.
Patrick, God bless him, he had exactly one voice the entire time and had no idea how to convey a poison rana is more exciting than a headlock takeover.
It's got to be Jimmy Smith.
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Post by Andy Martin on Feb 1, 2024 1:48:08 GMT -5
Jimmy Smith by a hefty margin for me. Though I've always been a bit of a Jimmy Smith mark.
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Post by theironyuppie on Feb 1, 2024 4:25:57 GMT -5
Adnan's unintended comedic heights in WWE might never be reached again so I'll pick him His self-awareness was also endearing:
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Post by mj0mn0m on Feb 1, 2024 7:43:19 GMT -5
Like Alvarez said, I don't pay attention to commentators unless they are in Booker T mode (or Michael Cole who I've been listening for 20 years). Used to like Smith at Bellator. No memories of him in WWE.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Feb 1, 2024 10:10:43 GMT -5
Jimmy Smith had a voice that added legitimacy to the program. I didn't hate him. He's the best of these three by a country mile.
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Feb 1, 2024 10:18:33 GMT -5
They're honestly all so forgettable to me that I'll say Adnan, just because I enjoy his actual sports commentary and he seems like a good dude.
He also reminds me of that era of WWE where they were insisting on using a train sound effect when Braun would run around outside of the ring, which was somehow simultaneously the lamest and most hilarious production flourish thing that WWE has ever done.
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