Your opinion on Michael Cole?

[Crayo]

You a fan of his heel work? You despise him? Tell us here!

I personally find him incredibly funny, and a great heel, however I can see why some people absolutely hate him.

 

[seabs]

He's a good heel but a bad commentator. He can't lead the announce team and be a heel you need to babyface for that imo.

 

[Crayo]

Well personally I think he's only leading the team because of how bad King is. No one can match Cole atm on the mic, who can counter-act his heel commentaries? King just says "Shut up Cole". King's job is to put over the faces that Cole is slating.

But I agree, heels leading isn't gonna work.

Edit: Glad you're on haha, didn't think you'd make it

 

[seabs]

Well personally I think he's only leading the team because of how bad King is. No one can match Cole atm on the mic, who can counter-act his heel commentaries? King just says "Shut up Cole". King's job is to put over the faces that Cole is slating.

But I agree, heels leading isn't gonna work.

Edit: Glad you're on haha, didn't think you'd make it

The only person I believe who could counter him would be Stanford or Regal. Why neither of them two are on TV every week baffles me.

=L you missed me then ?

 

[Crayo]

Oh thank fuck you're here, I completely agree with you. Stanford + Regal are perfect. Literally flawless commentators. Yes, I did miss you!! Lmao

Stanford + Regal + Cole for RAW.

Stanford = Super Face. Always on Face's side.

Regal = The Tweener, like Booker is now. Understands heel attacks making impact, supports face's aswell.

Cole = Super Heel. Never on a face's side.

 

[Jonathan]

My opinions on all the commentators.

Cole = You simply cannot have your main play-by-play announcer being a heel constantly calling people boring, nerd, etc. because eventually it will rub on people and they will take the same stance. Turn cole face or get him off RAW.

King = King's good for what he actually says, but he just doesn't work well as a colour commentator with cole.

JR = The BEST play-by-play announcer EVER. Him doing commentary can make things SO MUCH MORE exciting and fun, I still think it should be JR+King on RAW, maybe Cole with them, and Booker+Josh+Cole on SD.

Booker = Well, yeah. You can't understand 99% of things he says but at least he tries to put guys over.

Josh = Actually quite a good commentator just needs to be recognised more and not have to constantly be bitching/separating the bitching between Cole/Booker, it ruins the product.

And they ALL, bar JR because he's never there now, need to shut the fuck up about Twitter. No one gives a shit, it ruins the product when you're telling us about what's tending instead of calling the damn match like I'm paying you to do.

 

[seabs]

I'm gonna offer my opinion on the commentators in general aswell :
Cole - Quite a good heel but can't be a color imo. Needs to be a manager to help a heel get over. They were on the right track with swagger.

King - Seems really disinterested hopefully he retires now.

JR - Made the Miz and Truths attack at Hell In A Cell seem legit. Had moments when he seemed disinterested but when he's onit quite possibly the greatest commentator in history. ( I personally rate Heenan higher but thats just personal preference.)

Booker - I love how he puts over the workers and his enthusiasm he makes wrestling fun again for me.

Josh - A really talented guy especially on as the voice of reason on smackdown could be a really good play by play.

Striker - He's a fan like the rest of us. He should be doing the Booker role on Raw imo.

Regal - The classic heel. He can insult people without them even knowing they've been insulted. Still abit green at times as he's relatively knew to commentary I believe but really enjoyable. If they aren't going to use him in ring put him on commentary. He needs to be on TV.

Stamford - Really talented commentator can be the neutral guy or the babyface.

My commentary teams would be as follows.

Raw
Color - Striker ( Heel)
Play by Play - JR (Face)
Neutral - Stamford ( Neither preference)

Smackdown
Color - Booker T (Face)
Play by Play - Josh (Neutral)
Third guy - Regal ( Heel ) Have him chirp in crediting the heel actions.

Give Cole a stable of mid-carders such as Tyson Kidd, Tyler Rexs and Drew McIntyre he can get them all heat by association at least.

 

[Jonathan]

That's actually a good suggestion ^

 

[Roach]

I like the things Cole says, but I agree with the above suggestion for the shows.

 

[Crayo]

I'd replace striker with Cole for RAW. It's highly rumoured that most things he says is because Vince is in his ear, since he is the main commentator. I think he's getting a bit hated because he has no competition. There's no doubt that Cole is one fantastic heel, but he needs a JR there, or a stanford to put him in line. King just can't do it.

I'd have it as this.

RAW:

Color - Cole (Heel, needs to tone things down a bit though)
Play by Play - JR (if not available, Stanford)
Neutral - Regal

SmackDown:

Neutral - Booker T
Play by Play - Josh
Color - Striker (heel)