IF JBL goes back to announcing, where should he go?

[MikeRaw]

Now that JBL has 'retired', it opens up the possibility of us seeing the best colour comentator in the business get back behind the mic. His run as colour guy with Cole a few years ago was awesome. And with Tazz now gone from WWE, there's an obvious hole open in the announcing table now.
So, the question is... Where do you want him to go? Raw, SD, or ECW (unlikely).
There's two likely options here...
One is that he goes to SD, and fills the empty hole. That's probably most likely. The other would be that they send King to SD, to rejoin his buddy JR, and we have Cole and JBL calling things on Raw.

My choice is actually to just send him to SD. Even though it'd be great to have him reunite with Cole, and be able to bash him around again, moving King to SD is unlikely, and the combination of JR and JBL seems tempting.
Thats my choice...

 

[CT Styles]

Imagine JBL bashing JR or them arguing in some way..

:laugh:

 

[plachi]

I agree with JBL to SD. We've had him with Cole, and obviously we've had King with JR, so it would be interesting to see JBL and JR. JR's not as much of a pu$$y as Cole so Bradshaw won't be able to bully him as much would should be interesting. Hopefully it will be a similar to the attitude era when King was sort of a heel (and actually good) and was always having little arguments with JR.

 

[1chiban]

Him and JR will work well imo.

 

[Luke Flywalker]

I think they should pair JBL with King and see where it goes from there. I think it could inspire King to go back to being a dick, which would be awesome for the E.

 

[Airfixx]

^^^ That leaves them with no play-by-play guy tho'.

 

[noumenon]

JBL and JR would probably work quite well together. As much as I'de like to see King and JR back behind the announce table, I really like the dynamic of having a heel biased announcer paired with a face. I can't stand Cole on commentary but if King can revert back to his heel'ish ways Cole's whiney bitchiness might compliment it.

 

[Next Big Thing]

Seeing as how JBL had a little fairwell adress today and said that he will NOT be doing commentary, he won't be going to any show.

 

[noumenon]

Must have missed that. Where was it...WWE.com?

 

[Next Big Thing]

Must have missed that. Where was it...WWE.com?

JBL No More, Thank You.
Monday, April 6, 2009, 09:06 AM EST [General]
April 6, 2009

It doesn't get any bigger than Wrestlemania 25. WM 25 was in my home state of Texas with my childhood idols being inducted into the hall of fame.

I had wanted to make it to WM 25 for years, and when injuries cut my career short the one regret I had was that I wouldn't make the 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania-well, I made it. I never dreamed after I retired the first time that my back would get better and I would be allowed to return to wrestling.

Standing there last night in front of over 70,000 people in my home state ended a journey that was unreal to me. For a kid from Sweetwater, Texas to be able to travel all over the world and realize his dream is pretty cool.

I don't know what the future holds, never say never in life. But I have wrestled my last match. Months ago, I picked out this match. If Eddie Guerrero couldn't be here for it then my dear friend Rey was the obvious choice, and I'm proud he was.

I want to thank the WWE for a great career, for taking a chance on me and allowing me the keys to the car for a while. I will always represent the WWE wherever I go, I am proud of my 13 ½ years with the WWE. And, I am proud of the WWE for cleaning up a great sport to make it more healthy to everyone that is a part.

However, I have no current plans on doing anything in the future on a professional level with WWE. I don't plan on doing commentary, in fact; it hasn't even been brought up to me. I don't plan on being an on air character. I plan on starting the next chapter in my life, and closing the door on this one.

I have worked with some of the greatest people in the world; I have life long friends that are the best in the world. Everytime WWE is brought up or JBL,

I will smile. I having nothing but great, great memories.

I have several projects that I am working on that will keep me more than busy.

I have worked with Charlie Haas to reform www.custom-muscle.com and together we plan on being the best nutrition web site in the world. Check us out, you can buy Layfield Products there, but you can also buy all the cutting edge supplements in the nutrition world there-and the plain old everyday supplements as well.

We plan on offering a full service web site, from information to updates on the world of fitness and health and of course the best prices for supplements of all kinds.

I plan on hunkering down and building my companies. I plan on building a world class distribution service in Nashville and a top notch global beverage company. I have a deal in the banking world that I hope to get done that will allow the disabled the first fully access bank online.

I have had a life that I could have only dreamed of so far, but it is my time to say thank you and go away. I have nothing but great and fond memories and I want to leave before any of that changes, I swore I would never stay too long-I have too much respect for this business to do that.

You may see me in the WWE again, I don't know-but that is not the plan. Right now, I have gotten up early today and am ready to go to work on the next part of my life that will hopefully exceed the first part.

I have been on the road for my entire adult life. I want to put the suitcases up and do my best to be successful outside of wrestling, today starts that journey.

Thanks to all you guys out there for cheering me, booing me and making signs about me. It is a little overwhelming to think of the great fans the WWE has today. I have been a bad guy for so long, and when I started you were a bad guy 24/7, I carried that mindset probably too long-well no more, today I am just a normal guy going to work.

It seems like yesterday I was sitting with my Grandfather watching wrestling, and telling him that one day I was going to be one of those guys. My grandfather never got to see me wrestle, but I am sure he is happy today. I hope Bobby Duncum Jr. and Eddie Guerrero were watching with him.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you for allowing me to be a part of the great theater we call "sports entertainment", personally I just always considered myself a wrestler.
source: http://fans.wwe.com/jbl/blog/2009/04/06/jbl_no_more_thank_you

 

[Luke Flywalker]

^^^ That leaves them with no play-by-play guy tho'.

They don't want play-by-play anymore...


...at least the last time I heard anything about it...

 

[noumenon]

Well said by JBL. I'm honestly going to miss him a bit. He was phenomenal on the mic and really showed crazy evolution through his career. Hopefully if we see him again it'll be in some form...an APA run in

 

[Airfixx]

They don't want play-by-play anymore...


...at least the last time I heard anything about it...

I get what you're saying - I read the same story last year - but call 'em "play-by-play" or 'the straight guy'; whatever ya like, we're talking about the likes of Cole, JR & Grisham and that role is evidently alive and kicking.

To simply call these guys 'faces' would be innacurate.

 

[Luke Flywalker]

^Not faces, I wasn't implying they had to be heels, just assholes. I never considered King or JBL as heel commentators, they were just dickheads who could make people laugh and knew the business inside and out. Lawler's recently been in the "straight guy" role as you put it.. having two straight guys can't work, but I can see 2 "heel" commentators working.

 

[Wordlife]

AHHH I'm going to honestly miss JBL now!!! I was looking forward to him being a commentator