Jim Cornette on Why WWE Chose Michael Cole Over Kevin Kelly
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- From Episode 161 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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"Im not Ken Shamrock. Im not Randy Couture but i can Whip Kevin Dunn" - Jim Cornette
*whip ;)
@@JRBA2906 yes i know, but yt is dumb an hides the comment if you write whip
Also, for what it's worth, Rogan was a professional tae kwon do fighter. A good one, too.
@@MilMaska really? That's odd. Fair enough
"Especially in those days cuz I was younger and had better knees"- Jim Cornette
“Jannetty tried to dive through the window to escape! What an act of cowardism” Bobby Heenan ...that segment was probably the hardest I’ve laughed from wrestling commentary...it was all gold after Michaels turned in that segment
Same here. Any time anyone talks about the genius of Bobby Heenan, that line about Jannetty always comes up. I really miss the Brain.
R.I.P. Brain....you are sorely missed sir. And that might be the best line ever uttered by a wrestling announcer...now I've got to go watch the damn segment again.
I remember watching it as a kid. Bobby got some heat from 8 yr old me with that line. I love him and Monsoon as a team.
It was a funny line no doubt but i kind of wish he hadnt of said it during such a serious angle. Especially after his "Oh My God" when he put him thru the window was so awesome and effective coming from a heel like Bobby.
Heenan was awesome and in wcw a Legend like Jim cornette
I glanced at my screen and thought Kevin Dunn's teeth were a pause button
Me too lmao
LMAO
TREMENDOUS! LOL
Gtfoutta here!!!! 😂😂😂
Lol
The old man in Micheal Cole's ear is the reason why he can't show his true talent. For those who hate him, should listen to his commentary with Tazz in 2003 when Paul Heyman was actually in control
He was really good in the UK championship tournament aswell
I agree. It all comes down to VKM.
And he was good with JR cause JR could control him.
Yea, Cole is really good. His match calling and transitioning to storytelling and back and forth is done so smoothly. They should just give Cole freedom on the commentary.
Wasn't cole commentating on that Brian pillman memorial tournament?
"Keep your finger in your nose, herme!!.."
*The Rock*
Cole was at his best when he and Taz were the Smackdown announcing duo.
I loved him with JBL too. But Cole and Tazz were the peak of Smackdown commentary
He also did well on the UK tournament
@@KingCrimsonVal187 glad someone said that he was so good on the uk thing must be vince or bucky in his ear or maybe he liked the uk wrestling better
Yeah that's when Cole was being himself
Facts
“For the love of mankind!” Michael Cole shouts as he reads the script right in view of the camera.
Yea, you can totally tell when Cole is being fed lines.
Even if he wasn't seen reading that straight from a script, the line just sounds so fake and forced.
IT'S BOSS TIIIIIME!
DA BIG DAAAAWG!
I can't stand it when Cole refers to someone's tag team partner as his "buddy". It sounds like Muppet Babies not pro wrestling.
Yeah that was cringeworthy
I always liked Kevin Kelly. I always wondered why he just disappeared.
He now does NJPW STRONG commentary every Friday 10pm! After other shows are finished.
U can’t work for wwe & say u were a fan of the product lol if anything say u hate wrestling. They’ll beg u to take the job
He was pushed out because Heidenreich didn’t want to violate him, not cute enough. So Micheal Cole was their man
@@eljuniorcen2675 And general English commentary for NJPW as well, at least for the last year or so.
Me too he was interviewing Jeff Jarrett and Debra when Owen Hart fell
Kevin Kelly is the English voice of NJPW and he's great.
He is the best!
Cornette never watches New Japan, so for him he is dead
He might be the best play by play commentator in the biz right now. Love Kevin Kelly
Fucking dope!
I miss the days when the announcers used to announce wrestling matches. Now they just talk over the match shilling the wwe network/sponsors/other angles.
They did that during the attitude era too.
@@madddoggnogood1491 True, but JR and King were actually enjoyable to listen to and managed to call what was happening in the match as well as do their shilling.
If you go back and just listen to JR and Lawler you don't have to look at the tv and you'll know what's going on nowadays nope you'll have no idea what's going on.
Honestly no one beats Gorilla and Ventura or Heenan.
@@dntwasteit8547 huh?
Kevin Kelly was a likeable commentator.
Still is. He’s amazing as the English voice of New Japan Pro Wrestling.
I remember when he was on Sunday night HeAT
I liked him on Sunday Night Heat back in the day. Very underrated commentator now that I think back on it.
@@TommyBrownell He's one of the few who still show emotion. Just listen to when he calls naito's destino or insults jay white and gedo
The thing I hate about Michael Cole is when he no sells jokes. Dead air is the last thing you'd want.
Or the snort.
I don't know dude...a match a wrestlemania was pretty damn bad.
Cole is awful on commentary, his voice is so annoying.
@Toby Naraine he sounds like he impersonates Ross King from Cultaholic when he used to say WCPW with a fake London accent.
I was like that with Vince and his fake laughs back in the day.
Kelly was there when pillman pulled the gun on Austin
And the last person to interview Owen Hart
"Get help" "Get help"!!! (Arms flopping up and down)
@@lunakitty1990 damn. Really?
@@whidoineedthis it was on over the edge 1999 where Kevin interviewed the blue blazer backstage for a promo right before owen went to the rafters at the Kemper Arena
Kevin Kelly is the best announcer in wrestling right now, his work with New Japan is fantastic
Completely agree. He's been tearing it up as the lead commentator in NJPW for years now. It's a shame more people can't hear how great he's become.
No he is not... His storytelling is horrible and he lacks real knowledge if Japanese wrestling. He is following Don Callis's bs.
@@YoursAnonymously I couldn't watch 20 minutes of NJPW once JR left and was replaced by Kevin. It was just horrible. He was good in ROH, but Ian is better.
@@scottsmartky You must not watch NJPW much if you are citing JR as better than Kevin Kelly. At least Kevin knows who is who. Whenever JR commentated NJPW he always at least fucks up peoples names at least 2-3 times.
@@TheKawagawaga absolutely he had no idea who anyone was or what their characters were or who they were feuding with
I remember being disappointed when Michael Cole replaced/covered for Jim Ross back in the attitude era. But listening to him back then and him working with Tazz in the Ruthless Aggression Era, he wasn't the best but he wasn't bad. He seemed into it. But fast forward to modern times, he sounds so generic, bland, boring, robotic, etc and so does the rest of the commentators.
Well that's how Vince wants them to sound.
Thats why he hated Mauro. Mauro actually liked his job and brought some energy.
"You need to calm it down. ..not every match has to be wrestlemania "- vince McMahon to Mauro.
Vince punishes people for liking thier job
The school of Michael Cole today
@@madddoggnogood1491 Mauro was fine on SD, on NXT he was insufferable. Just fukn yelling at the top of his lungs over tope suicida's & shit. His corny, shoehorned pop culture references were awful too.
@@dirtmcgirt8269 Agrees heavily. I think he's unbearable.
That's because Vince is telling them all what to say apparently
I still remember when Evolution reunited. The Motorhead song "Line in the Sand" started playing and they walked out. The crowd was dead, and Michael Cole gave the most unenthusiastic and boring "oh no" I have ever heard
It's astonishing that the number one wrestling company for decades is so repulsed by the idea of hiring people with wrestling experience. Can you imagine this in other industries? Imagine a garage being turned off by applicants that have experience repairing cars. Or a restaurant that won't hire people that know how to cook. You would assume such companies wouldn't last long, right? And yet the wrestling promotion that hates wrestling and goes out of their way to hire people that have absolutely no experience with wrestling whatsoever just chugs along forever and ever.
Though I never understood how Michael Cole's looks factored into his hiring. He is thin, and as a result is better looking than Kevin Kelly, but that's all he really has going for him. Is that Kevin Dunn's standard? Just need the better looking of two very average looking people? I was a teenager at the time of Cole's hiring and thus at my peak of being superficial and everyone thought he came across as a huge dork. If he was supposed to be some cool guy that us kids would relate to then they struck out big time. If you're going to have an uncool guy either way then you might as well get the guy who knows wrestling.
This reminds me of my buddy who used to work at toys r us, and said that at his store anyway, they had a policy not to place people in departments that related to their interests. The reasoning had to do with not wanting people to steal or get distracted as much, so the result was having the guy with a 6 month old who's never owned a tv working in electronics, someone fresh out of high school who plays guitar working in the baby section, and a woman who hasn't heard of Steve Austin trying to help some kid find a Randy Orton figure.
You want people that are ignorant of how things should go so you can teach them YOUR way to do things, and you also don't have to break any "bad" habits. And that's why everyone in WWE now sounds like him. You take the blank slate, chisel out a mold, and then take everyone else to fit into the mold. Dunn has a style and wants that style. The fact that the style sucks balls is a separate issue.
What do you mean? That happens all the time. We're a nation that employs unexperienced, unsure of their worth workers over experienced, sure of their value workers.
We go for the cheaper payroll.
General Motors has frequently promoted the chemist to oversee chassis and given the engineer a new title that amounted to nothing. Harley Davidson has had to throw out the executives that don't ride motor cycles more than once. See, General Motors and Harley Davidson can't afford to go too long making what they want over what the customer does because Ford and Indian will run over them eventually. WWE getting rid of that "alternative" lets them neglect "top down" spring cleaning. They just push out a few "bottom up," and usually quit around the foray because guests don't see any further anyway.
@@TrueNomadSkies Why does one need to know about wrestling to find items in their shop?
One imagines it says "Randy Orton" and is in the toy section...
"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!"
@@jamesb1988 OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS!
*FOR THE LOVE OF MANKIND*
Kevin Kelly only came second to Mauro for best play by play guy in wrestling.
Cole isnt as bad as people think. This is situation where people are blaming talent when they should be blaming the old man
Sometimes, the talent is also the problem. Look at Miro for example: Everyone was saying that Vince didn't want to push Rusev, but now that he is in AEW, you can clearly see why Vince didn't want to push him.
Easy to always blame Vince, but it's also important to be objective, and ask yourself : "is this guy talented " , "does he have charisma ", "can he cut a promo". Not every wrestler has "it".
I agree with this complete completely. I have the same mindset as u when it comes to commentary Thames.
@@obersveyourmind that's not on miro.
Thats on the booking of aew.
Now miro may have a little more creative freedom.
But theyve made him look like an idiot.
Rusev day Is proof he has it dude was the most over act in pro wrestling for 8 months in all promotions....you heard Rusev day chants in roh and NJPW....now I think they should've brought Aiden english in with him as a tag team
It is easy to blame vince because he controls everything we see on wwe tv. It's his fault for the majority of the crappy stuff on raw and smackdown
And a wrestler is completely different than a commentator. Thats completely on vince and Kevin Dunn the way the commentary sounds
People quickly forget, Cole did commentary the night Jerry Lawler had his heart attack. A truly professional performance in what were dire circumstances.
Michael Cole and Taz were a good combo on SD back in the day, Michael Cole today with Vince screaming in his ear the whole time isn't good, he's not the worst ever. He does his job, the way Vince tells him because he doesn't want to get fired.
I thought Dunns teeth were a pause button in the middle of the vid lol.
Didn’t Rock keep calling Kevin Kelly a hermaphrodite?
He did indeed.
Hermie!
Lol!!😂 Yes!! I remember that!! Rock caught him trying to pick his nose while doing a promo. Rock yelled, "Stick it in Hermie!!!" An embarrassed him. Funny as hell!!😂😂
WWF The Rock funny interview with Kevin Kelly is the video on CZcams of that.
@@dannyns860 Thanks, man. I'll check it out again. That an him turning heel an singing with the guitar always cracks me up. Lol!!😂😂 An I wasn't even a fan of his back then.
Jesse Ventura was the first name that came to mind of a memorable heel commentator that also had an over the top image carried over from Ventura's tenure as a Wrestler. I've always considered Vince McMahon's approach as an announcer overly exaggerated, but also enjoyable as well.
Rowdy Roddy Piper. NWA Georgia and JCP 1981 to 1983.WWF early 1984.🤔🎤🏴🤼♂️B.W.
"1-2-3! No 2 and a half!!" - Vincent K McMahon
Vince's "Nooooooo" always cracked me up 😊@@sundayneverends
So Bucky Beaver wanted an announcer with a look of authority...only to have Cole used in one humiliation angle after another.
They seriously need to start using the old theme for Jesse and Festus to introduce Brian " BISCUITS AND GRAVY, MADE ME A MAN!"
I was a fan big fan of theirs when i was 7 or 8 years, I found them entertaining especially festus
This is the first time I’ve seen someone mention Jesse and Festus in 2020.
@@MikeJr9284 Vince McMahon doesn’t know Luke Gallows was Festus.
Biscuits and gravy made me not shit for three months.
Vince hired Gallows and Anderson because he thought they were Jesse and Festus. Biscuits and Gravy Pronouns and Poop Pal!
"Half man half beaver" that got a chuckle out of me
Michael Cole has always been terrible, Kevin wasn't the best ever, but man, he's top 15, easily
Kevin Kelly is tremendous in New Japan
I actually don't think Michael Cole is that terrible an announcer. But his job has been micromanaged to a level where I'm not sure anyone's true voice can be heard. The only thing Cole is guilty of is learning to adapt in a way that guys like JR and Joey Styles could not.
@@daleharris3809 if you watch him in NXT UK and Mae Young Classic he's great
I rewatched the Japan special they did a few years back (where Balor first won NXT title) and enjoyed it a lot. When you get Vince and Dunn away from him Cole is solid.
@Anant Raman He's terrible. He calls half of the moves he sees a "throw". He's referred to a cross body as a splash. His heel character was beyond cringy.
Cole has always sounded like a guy trying to force something that just isn't there.
@Charming Billy #miak
I feel The UK tournament is proof that Cole does really good commentary when Vince McMahon isn't in his ear.
I really do feel bad when people give Michael Cole strife.
Cole is good when Vince isn’t in his ear
🤣🤣🤣
Cole isn't as bad people say, back in the 2000s especially on Smackdown with Tazz and then JBL he was really good in my opinion. Last few years he's just been phoning it in and now everyone sounds the same.
That's why people hate him. They remember when he wasn't awful.
Yeah and alot can be thanked because of Vince and bucktooth bucky Kevin Dunn.
He was ok. Not great...not bad. Below average commentator. Cole is still shit!!!
@@jordandennis6794 Plus, Cole had the unfortunate bad luck of following Jim Ross.
"FOR THE LOVE OF MANKIND SHANE JUST EXPLODED THROUGH OUR TABLE" as Michael Cole reads the script,an iconic moment felt cringy thanks to Michael Cole
@Shadow Angel agreed.
@Shadow Angel What about JR
I was just going to comment about that silly ass shit. You beat me to it.
@Shadow Angel on the plus side Corny wouldn't have said a wrestler is so tough.....
I am a huge mark for Kevin Kelly. I think he's the best wrestling announcer since the great Gordon Solie. He can do interviews, backstage segments and he shines on play-by-play. Since WWE is too mentally challenged to recognize what they had in Kevin, I really wish that AEW would bring him in.
Good news
Kevin Kelly is amazing in New Japan Pro Wrestling. Best commentary right now.
Michael Cole has nothing special about him. The real issue was that heel run with the "Cole Mine" shit.
Kevin Kelly is in a good spot with NJPW and I wouldn't trade him for the world.
Michael Cole is a yes man. That's why
@@sergf3624 I've never heard anyone refer to Michael Cole as ripped haha. Do you mean thin? He's thin. Everyone who is skinny is not "ripped"
Cole puts on red lipstick to kiss Vinny’s ass.
@@sergf3624 Watch how portly Cole is in the match vs Jerry Lawler.
He was not thi.......
Actually maybe American thin.
@@sergf3624 Ross is fat, it's the talking that matters not the looks, they're commentators not competitors
I always really liked both Kevin Kelly and Michael Cole. They had contrasting styles that I felt evolved and improved quite well, but Kevin never had the chance and I always assumed he was the one who left for something else.
I actually didn't think Cole was that bad back in the Attitude Era. His call after Foley won the title was especially good. Him just like every other announcer became overproduced as the years went on. But before those times I thought he was pretty solid.
It wasn't until he was paired with JBL where he got worse.
Absolutely. Cole is no JR (but who is), but he isn't as bad as people say he is. He's at the mercy of Vince and Kevin Dunn feeding him lines and plugs constantly. If they'd loosen his leash and let him call the matches himself, it would be so much better
Matt Thomas Cole was good with Taz on Smackdown from 2002-2004, he started sucking around 2008 when he and Jim Ross switched shows.
J.R was feeding Cole lines around that time.
Watch Beyond the mat.
@@goonerman6370 He was also decent when he did the UK tournament. It's when Vince is yelling lines in his ear is where he's terrible.
Cole was tolerable in the late 90s and early 2000s and around 2004-6 when smackdown was at its peak Cole and Tazz were creeping on an aging King and JR as the top announcing team in WWE. But once Cole came to RAW to replace JR, despite his heel run it's been downhill for him w the overproducing.
See I found Cole most tolerable late 2001 to early 2004 when SmackDown was the superior show to Raw. His pairing with Tazz is an extremely underrated duo when it comes to good commentating teams in wrestling history. They played off each other superbly.
Rogan is a multiple black belt and amateur kick boxer, no not an ex mma fighter, but an expert on techniques and a nerd for the sport. He is one of the best sports color guys ever
Loved 2010 ROH, so I’m glad to hear Jim go into that a little bit. As much as people hate on Jim’s run with the company, he does not get enough credit for the way he revamped that HDNet show, which before him, I thought was hard to follow due to the taped shows being so disconnected from the live events, DVD’s and PPV’s. Jim did a great job of improving the continuity of the shows, plus I thought he got a lot out of guys like Roddy Strong and Tyler Black from a character standpoint, when at that time especially neither guy felt like anything to write home about.
I'm glad they did, Kelly was great for ROH and is great for NJPW.
Sure is kelly and don callis
Jim on the Joe Rogan podcast might be very interesting.
Rogan asks very well crafted questions. I think that would be an epic podcast
YESS!!
I think Jim would get mad with him
Rogan would ask him if he ever tried DMT. 🤣
@Charming Billy then why was the Undertaker on and Jake the Snake and DDP
Anyone else expecting Vince to pull an "Adam Cole is Michael Cole's child!?!?!" angle when VKM calls Adam up to main. I dearly hope I am wrong but we've known Vince and his ways for 40 + years...
He would go for it if someone brought it up
IS IT SAFE?????-Dr Baker and Ms Cole
(Something like this...)
"That's good shit! Bruce, on FOX Friday Smackdown what if Michael Coles's Son to the roster go tell baby he's here pal!"VKM 😆hukhuk
I'm not being hyperbolic when I say this: Michael Cole is one of the primary reasons I stopped watching live wrestling. The only thing I watch now is the older stuff with awesome announcers like Gorilla Monsoon, Jesse Ventura, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Ross. Cole is INSUFFERABLY generic, sterile, smarmy, and plastic in his delivery. Everything about Cole is directly reflected in most of the main roster, too. Overly slick, robotic drones reciting overthought scripts. Barf.
Kevin Kelly is the reason why New Japan has such good English commentary
Agreed i think he is one of the reasons i get sucked in to there shows
I thought the video started on pause because of Kevin Dunn's teeth.
Oh the sweet irony of Kevin Dunn deciding who or what is "cosmetically pleasing"
*Cole is one of the main reasons people cannot enjoy watching WWE today.*
Michael ‘OH MY, YOU GOTTA BE KITTIN ME’ Cole
Kevin Kelly is great. I won a raffle at a Supercard of Honor show and got to call a ROH match with him. Great experience!
Michael Cole basically formatted JR whole announcement style watered it down and made it his own...
Kevin Dunn still looks like Nosferatu, but when Jim called him Bucky Beaver, I fucking lost it.
I agree with most of the comments. Cole isn't JR, but he's not awful. Vince & Bucky Beaver shouting instructions in his ear make him awful. He's been pretty decent when he just gets to do his job. What annoys me the most is the catchphrases they make his say: "the Big Dog", "it's Boss Time", etc.
I think Heyman mentioned in an interview with Jericho post Wrestlemania 30 that Kevin Dunn had said Michael Cole and Tazz were the B team announcers in the build up to The Rock vs Brock at Summerslam 2002. Interesting that he's the one who liked Cole. He was probably kissing up to Vince.
I remember that Edge was on it as well.
Waiting to see if Cornette calls Stephen P New a traitor for taking on Kevin Kelly as a client
I used to hate Cole till' the cruiserweight tournament / 205 tournament showed up, Cole showed he was a prime time announcer, 100% world class and less restrictions. When you set him free and he announce something he believes in, he then is simply one of the best.
Kevin Kelly is also actually taller than some of the talent, including the Rock. He had to do the splits or crouch a bit when interviewing guys so that he wouldn’t appear taller....
He was only 5'10 but Coach had to do that
"TAP OUT BATYASTA TAP OUT BATYASTA"
these smarks buys it.
I’d love to hear Cole without Vince in his ear so that we could actually see if he’s good or bad.
I give Michael Cole some credits. I mean Cole would be a good commentator if Vince McMahon didn't yell at him in his ear piece. Screw U Vince, U 2 Kevin Dunn.
Michael Cole has ruined wrestling for me . Feels like blue balls listening to him call a big match
@@sergf3624 yea being married for 10 years will do that
Michael Cole's commentary has always been flat as a plate of piss.
@@sergf3624 Why you shilling Michael Cole so hard? I see you in the comments being a little pussy about people not liking him was genuinely curious as to why.
R2D2 has more personality and skills on a mic than Michael Cole.
Cory Graves is the new Micheal Cole and we never hear any new Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, Vice McMahon or Jerry The King Lawler
Hearing Jim Cornette say "Guy Metzger" was such a weird world collision for me.
last time I was this early, it was still Chris Jericho, and not Chris Jeri - COVID
The Ayatollah of Rockin' 'Rona?
Mike Hogewood was also the local sports guy for the Greensboro NC local FOX, and then WFMY (a CBS affiliate). I grew up on him on my local TV.
I liked Cole back in the day but he’s been terrible for a decade. Having said that he is just saying what VKM screams at him on the headset. Anyone who doesn’t conform would be out so it doesn’t matter if it’s Kevin Kelly or anyone else, they don’t have the freedom.
I always felt Matt Stryker and Joey Styles should have had more of a run on WWE. They both spoke like students of the game. But because wrestling's a dirty word to Dunn, their mic time was limited.
HDNet was the first HD only channel. That gave it low penetration in the TV market. Ahead of its time. They showed Pride MMA live from Japan for free. Those were the days.
Dunns teeth get bigger every time Travis draws him lol
Michael Cole was hilarious when he was doing heel commentary in his own little plastic box.
That picture of Michael Cole in the thumbnail is scary! I wouldn't want to wake up next to that face in the morning. LOL!😂🤣
Sometimes I blame Dunn more than McMahon at this WWE mess
Hilarious in 2024 that the last line on the subject of Kevin Kelly would be about Ian Riccaboni.
Cole was good when he was with Tazz and that’s it. Those two had great chemistry, I thought.
Micheal Cole is where Audio goes to die. Wish wwe had a mute commentator feature.
The Announcing Dream Team: Mike Adamle, Art Donovan, and Susan St. James
i'm so old, when I hear the name "Kevin Kelly", my first thought is, "Nailz".
I agree 100% about Ian Riccaboni. Breath of fresh air with him.
I like how it's almost 15 minutes of Cornette talkin' shit about Michael Cole (and wrestling announcers today, in general) but immediately cuts out at the end RIGHT when it sounds like Cornette is about to praise somebody. lol
Watching Morning Joe on MSNBC. Joe Scarborough just invented a culinary marvel that I think is worthy of our cult: Pensacola Handcuffs - you have a Big Mac in one hand and a piece of Popeye's chicken in the other.
Cole wouldn't be half so bad if he didn't say 'OHHHH MYYYYY!!!!' all the time. However I do credit Cole for his commentary the night Mankind won the title on RAW. Arguably his finest moment on the mic.
Kevin Kelly is awesome on Njpw
I half joked with a buddy of mine, that it is better to audition for an announcing gig with WWE and no nothing about Pro Wrestling than be someone like me, who has watched Pro Wrestling for Three Decades as of 2020. I am glad people like Gedo and HHH aren't overly producing their announcers. If I am going to hire someone to do a job for me, I am not going to watch over them like a Hawk, if I was going to do that, I would announce the shows.
Michael Cole was/is the perfect guy. . . for what Vince wanted; but he is good enough for Triple H's vision of what WWE should be.
Cannot stand Michael Cole with his stupid "OH MYYYYYY!" And plugging universe every sentence.
Always wondered how he has kept his job this long. Worst commentator in the history.
The ultimate yes man
@@EliC09 worse than excubiler?
He’s friends with Shawn Michaels which means he’s friends with HHH.
Remember when they had Art Donavan or Mike Adamely? My god at least Michael Cole knows whose in the ring,
"Vintage (fill in wrestler's name here)"
"DAHBLEYOO DAHBLEYOO EEE"
Uh, Joe Rogan was a fighter. He didn't fight MMA, but he had a history in full contact sparring for Taekwondo, as well as some Kickboxing. He retired from that early because of injury concerns, specifically ones related to head trauma.
I think Kevin Kelly one of the reasons why i get sucked in to njpw shows these days
I was maybe the only person within a 100-mile radius who had HDNet and saw the ROH television. The audio of the show was like my neighbors banging their trash can lids as loud as they possibly could and White noise mixed into one and that Hogwood fella made Eric Bischoff on Monday Nitro sound like Gordon Solie.
2:56 Remember Brakus?
Can somebody upload Michael Cole’s early tv debut as a War Correspondent for CBS news and CBS radio from 1993 to 1995
Aesthetics are clearly the most important aspect of announcing.
Now please talk about that bad ring announcer. John Madden wasn't slim but he knew the game
Path of Divergence: Cole isn’t there to save Jerry Lawler’s life.
my top 10 memorable michael cole moments....
okay, i have none.
You gotta be kidding me!! Ohhhh myyyyyy!! Its BOSS time!! :)
Not even the call for foleys title win
Come on that’s one of the best calls ever
Cole, when he doesn’t have Vince in his ear, actually became good at that particular job. The Japan Show WWE did where Brock wrestled Kofi and the NXT UK tournament (I think Cole was with Nigel on that one) were stellar performances. I would also add the 2 Daniel Bryan matches at Wrestlemania 30, too.
It’s just that Michael had to follow JR. Despite JR’s decline, he is still beloved by wrestling fandom. Anyone having to follow in JR’s footsteps is not going to be well-loved.
Kevin Kelly is great on NJPW.
On Jericho's Podcast, Kevin Kelly even said, Kelly knew that Kevin Dunn despised him. In my view, Kevin Kelly is the best Pro Wrestling Announcer since Mauro Ranallo has taken his Sabbatical.
Kevin Kelly's interaction with the rock is unforgettable..
Also when Owen Hart played The Blue Blazer for the second time. Their rapport was GREAT together.
Like him said just like sable and the ultimate warrior they picked him because he looked good yet they fired the dude who actually knows about wrestling
You can't really blame Cole for his work. Considering his expertise, it's actually a miracle that he's managed to do pretty well with Tazz in commentating.