King last night...

[MikeRaw]

Last night, we heard a little bit of a glimpse back to the old King. For years, King would take the sides of heels, without becoming a full heel himself. He was more of a tweener. The fans would like him, JR would like him, he would just support what the heels did, and act as if he didn't see anything wrong with it. Then a few years back, probably 2006, he just dropped that completely. He still loved his puppies, but the rest of King was gone. He just became pretty much a generic face comentator, with a bnit of a funny side.
Last night, specifically during Matt Hardy's match, and even Kendricks a bit, he would compliment both heels. He seemed to have no problem with Hardy wearing the cast, and supported him for 'wrestling under protest'. I may be reading too much into it, feel free to tell me if I am. I also didn't see the end of Raw with sound, so I don't know how he was there. Did anyone notice this at all, and do you think King may be going back to his tweener ways? Or am I just imagining things...

 

[chessarmy]

lol Mike, you're so interested in this aren't you? Yea, King was back to his old ways a little bit last night. He's basically a tweener right now, it works best for him

 

[Luke Flywalker]

At the end he was back to his nowadays King stuff being all sympathetic of Shane's ankle and how agreeing with Cole how "vile the Viper" is.

While I'm on the point, I wish they'd have gone with calling Orton a Panther instead of a Viper like was originally planned. It makes me feel like they're still reaching for the days of the rattlesnake, and IMO, it holds Orton back from growing into his own superstar.

But yeah, I wouldn't think anything of it. Even as he was doing it, he was still acting too impressed with Kofi and almost non-sympathetic towards Matt's hand at any point. And after the attack, there wasn't even a spark of him sounding like he was the least-bit excited over it. Back in the day, King would have encouraged something like that.

It also hurt that he basically disagreed with the Regal incident. He should have done his old King "I didn't see anything! Oh, that video angle lies, Regal was pulling one of those studs off his tights!" IMO, had King been heel there, it would have pulled that little bit extra out of fans at home to mark out for MVP (whose entrance is getting better, just needs that something more to it).

 

[noumenon]

I've been noticing this for the past couple of weeks now. Hopefully they go full blown with it soon because he's great as a heel commentator. Nothing cracks me up more than a heel sitting down at the announce table for color commentary and him and King teaming up to make fun of his announce partner. In this case...Cole...who doesn't love making fun of Cole?

 

[MikeRaw]

lol Mike, you're so interested in this aren't you? Yea, King was back to his old ways a little bit last night. He's basically a tweener right now, it works best for him

So interested in what? lol. I just wanted to know if I was hearing it right, because I was watching it at midnight cause I was out earlier, so I didn't have the volume on loud. Wasn't sure if I heard him making heelish remarks or if I was hearing wrong.

 

[Moonlight Drive]

I noticed it too, but I have heard similiar things over the past few months and no change. Still, fingers crossed.

 

[mancilla 86]

i dont care what anyone says.king is the best commentator along with bobby heenan!!! hes the reason i can stand watching the boring matches..so many times has he made me laugh and given me a reason to live..

 

[Klide]

King + heel = one of my favorite commentator. I surely do miss a heel comentator and the only one who can pull it off is king. But last Monday it was just something minor I highly doubt were gonna see another heel comentator. Proof: matt stricker "your teacher"

 

[seX-Power]

Basically all of the commentators in the WWE go tweenerish every now and then, or at least the color commentators. Someone has to praise the heels but I only really consider it heel commentating if they would praise the heelish antics, and I don't think Lawler did that. I wouldn't over think this, and I doubt anything will change, although I would like it unless it would end up like Tenay/West.

 

[He who knows more than Nation]

When King first started commentating for the WWF he was the ONLY person who could fill the shoes left by Bobby Heenan and Jesse Ventura and he was awesome at it. Anyone remember the Royal Magestrator? When he would freeze frame a replay from a random face's match and draw something hilarious? Like Tito Santana being in a seat ejected from an airplane? He was just gold all through 98 until "Puppies" Lawler became his gimmick and he was more of a horny middle aged man than a great heel commentator. Now he's just been near awful with Cole and very, very boring for the most part of this decade. I think having a full blown heel commentator is something WWE has also lost faith in, just like tag wrestling, building the midcard, and real managers. These are parts of the formula that made them billions and made them what they certainly not today, an overly entertaining show from top to bottom, not the main event focused show that makes viewers generally spot watch.

 

[mancilla 86]

I think having a full blown heel commentator is something WWE has also lost faith in, just like tag wrestling, building the midcard, and real managers. These are parts of the formula that made them billions and made them what they certainly not today, an overly entertaining show from top to bottom, not the main event focused show that makes viewers generally spot watch.

i miss all those things..