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WWE: The WWE Broadcast Team Is Ruining the WWE Experience

Posted: Feb 4th 2012 By: mikeiles

This year's Royal Rumble may not be an all-time great, but it was definitely an interesting match with a nice curve ball (if you can call a man many tipped as their dark horse a curve ball) winner.

However for me the whole PPV was ruined for the same reason I just can't stand watching WWE for long periods of time any more: the broadcast team.

Not only did they take three spots in the rumble that should have gone to other talented wrestlers but they spent the whole PPV arguing with each other.

On the rare occasion that they found something "worthy of their time," all they did was let Booker T go on one of his moronic rants about how great this wrestler is and how he respects their talent.

I understand that WWE is a story-driven company and they want the commentators to have personalities like the wrestlers, but it's getting out of hand. Actually, let me correct myself, it has been out of hand for over a year.

Ever since Michael Cole was deemed more important than the divas (which is just offensive to female wrestlers everywhere) the broadcast team has been talking over every show.

I could lay all the blame with Michael Cole (who was named worst announcer for the fourth year in a row by Wrestling Observer Newsletter) but the fact is just about everyone is terrible.

Cole was always a bad announcer; he was bland, boring, and desperately trying to be Jim Ross when it was perfectly apparent that he wasn't. He was dull but he was effective enough as a play by play man to be on the No. 2 show. It wasn't a real problem; he just wasn't that good.

Then he turned himself into a heel commentator. At first it seemed great; he was actually making an impact on the show and he wasn't just a stop gap for JR any more. He was his own man. Then (like so many good things the WWE has had over the years) it got out of hand.

Cole was being featured more than the show itself, he was pushing himself into story lines and instead of being a great complement to the show, he was becoming a distraction.

So in reward for becoming a detriment to the show he is given a WrestleMania match and instead of it ending there (the logical conclusion), he is given the win!

Today Cole is still his obnoxious heel commentator character which has grown stale and actually worse with time.

Not to mention his anti-Daniel Bryan motives are hurting what could be a great heel character. Cole is the biggest problem, but he isn't the only one.

Second on the Crap-o-meter is Booker T the rambling, incoherent, over-the-top face commentator that is ruining the image of color commentators everywhere. Every five minutes on Smackdown, we are "treated" to another rant involving how this wrestler is "his boy" or "in his top five."

Completing the trio-of-woe is the legend Jerry Lawler, the man who was carried by good old JR for the better part of his announcing career.

Now I'm not saying that Lawler is a bad commentator, it's just that he was partnered with the John Madden of wrestling commentators for so long that by himself he is nothing special.

The fact that he constantly argues with Michael Cole about nothing is just infuriating and disrespectful to the wrestlers in the ring.

Do you know what makes this whole situation worse? The fact that behind the "trio-of-woe" are William Regal and Matt Striker, two of the best commentators going around, and we have to watch them waste their talents on NXT while these three are going to WrestleMania.