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The Coach is back in WWE
https://www.pwinsider.com/article/11...h-wwe.html?p=1
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Love the Coach. Way better than Booker
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I don't mind Coach, he's just a bit bland. Would have preferred Da Jooce if they're sticking with 3 man booths.
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I thought they shit canned booker mid show last night but wasnt certain
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They just replaced him with Steph as planned for the womens Rumble I thought?
Hey, maybe Booker will replace Boring Saxton. |
Or worse, Booker and Saxton will both be on SmackDown so Graves won't have to keep doing both shows.
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Nah, can't have more than one black person on the announce team.
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Booker has been awful for months.
Good call WWE. |
Booker won't be doing commentary anymore outside of Pre-Show panels and he'll be given a 'ambassador' role for the 'E.
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Like, WWE commentary is going to be rough no matter what because of the buzzwords-per-minute average being somewhere north of 100, so, the three dudes enjoying working together and busting each other's balls at least offers some kind of entertainment. We'll see how their chemistry with Coach is, but I'm not hopeful. |
Coachman should tweet : I'm comin' for your spot nigga!
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i didn't realize at the time how amazing Jim Ross was and how much he made the shows for me. I can't stand the commentary these days. We were spoiled for so long. Even Vince was pretty great.
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The only commentary team I like is Graves/Philips/Saxton (in WWE r/n)
I can't stand Mauro and Cole/Graves are a bit much together...will gladly give The Coach a chance. |
I dont understand how booker is so bad at commentary. You listen to his podcast and hes fine. More than fine, hes enjoyable to listen to, but for whatever reason when hes on commentary, hes just this incoherent mess.
Maybe Vince is just constantly screaming at him like he did with foley and its messing him up. |
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Mauro sucks so much. Glad JBL ran him out of there. Bring back JBL to scare off that pussy
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The Coach was awesome as Bischoff 's lackey
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Plus he was part of the greatest segment in Raw history.
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Glad they're getting Booker out of there.
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I didn't watch all of RAW, but I think Coach did a good job, and was good at the Rumble.
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Coach wasn't at the Rumble?
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Wasn't a fan of Coach's return. Booker was the best part of Raw commentary.
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Always a better personality than a commentator. Still, anything's an improvement over Booker.
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I love Booker on commentary, but I think Coach was great last night.
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Yeah I hear ya @ABT. The only thing I find moderately irksome about Booker is when his voice does that thing where it gets all gravelly. I don't know if it's something he can control or not but it makes me want to just hear him in his usual tone of voice.
Coach is a nice breath of fresh air. His infusion of personality and being able to use his experience to banter and play off Graves' commentary seemed to contribute very nicely to the match calling, although I wonder how he'll try to take what Byron says and try to make his responses flow naturally from them, if that makes any sense. |
I like how Coach was calling out stuff that was downright silly.
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I didn't watch Raw, but I think a team of Mauro and Coach would be good. It feels like they would have "cred." Obviously it's not going to happen with Graves being Mr. WWE and Mauro being off the main roster, but they could do a special or something and make them the commentators for it.
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Hopefully he's made some improvement in his time @ ESPN, couldn't stand him when he was tasked as a heel color guy back in the day. Run down the faces for dumb reasons, play up the heels, have an orgasm every time Edge showed up, washrinserepeat
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That’s exactly what pretty much every heel commentator has done since day one (ish).
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Coach is also co hosting Busted open along with Bully Ray and Mark Henry
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Except [INSERT HEEL NAME HERE] instead of Edge.
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Bobby Heenan was awesome. Jesse Ventura was awesome too. Both guys were fucking pioneers. Coach's Snivelly Little Tryhard Cool Guy act just never did anything for me :-\ He's no way worst ever though, I'd take him at the commentary desk over JBL's Confrontational Dad Joke Mcmahon Mouthpiece & Mark Madden's Screaming Autist characters any day.
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Maybe I'm zoning, but commentators have never really ruined anything for me. Some are definitely easier to listen to than others, but if the presentation is making me feel my own certain type of way, I don't get distracted by anyone else's thoughts. If that makes sense.
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Good commentary definitely helps with my engagement. Good commentary is like a companion piece to the action you're seeing. You don't often need it, but when it's there, it helps elevate great in-ring stuff to a real emotional rollercoaster. Michael Cole, Corey Graves, Coach, Tom Phillips or Byron Saxton aren't getting that from me. And bad commentary just helps you reflect on what a bad product it is. It makes you have to do more work to understand the dramatic context of what is happening, and it often exposes the lack of context to what is happening.
It's cool you don't need it, and I can get zoning -- I have to do that with the current commentators. But I think it's just an element of professional wrestling that is lacking today, like so much of it. It's certainly a compounding issue. The perfect representation of this is from WrestleMania 32, when Shane did his dive off the cell, and Cole is on the call: "For the love of Mankind!" Who wants that sort of cringing to be associated with a moment like that? |
Yeah, good commentary is preferred. Just not a deal breaker.
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