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Harry Thornton in Chattanooga was personally the worst I ever saw.. Very unprofessional. Not only his lack of wrestling knowledge but his insulting the heels and always standing up to them and even screaming at them like he was some kind of bad ass. He took the cranky old man bit to a new level.
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Jerry Lawler, 1999-2001, 2001-2007. Once Road Dogg made the terrible decision to introduce the word puppies as a euphemism for breasts into WWE's lexicon, it turned Lawler into an unlistenable horny screeching idiot for YEARS. Even worse, WCW's Mark Madden tried to copy him, albeit with a lower voice, and I've had to turn off the commentary on women's indie matches on YouTube because the commentators were engaging in the same garbage too. Here's a guy who was one of the biggest names of the 1980s and the top star of the last of the old school territories embarrassing himself week after week on national television at the expense of everything he had achieved. Lawler's commentary had been leaning in that direction but once he had a catchword to center it around it all fell apart.
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Post: #1077041
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Gorilla Monsoon was horrible. The worst. He's one of the many I just can't understand why Vince couldn't quit him. Awful. He's the Fabulous Moolah of wrestling announcers. Kept getting work when he should've been working at McDonald's
Larry Nelson was pretty bad.
Jerry Lawler is almost as bad as as Monsoon.
Bob Caudle...seems like a nice guy and all, but his commentary never really worked for me.
Mark Madden is pretty close to Monsoon bad.
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I envy those who lived in a territory. I grew up in Tucson, AZ. My "territory" was being a WWF "C" town.
I believe the business fell on its ass in the early 90's because WCW started to copy WWF when it really should have been the other way around.
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Jerry Lawler has never been a play-by-play man. Neither has Madden.
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Post: #1077097
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Michael Cole and Tony Schiavone. I hate it when the play-by-play guys don't know the names of the moves or just come off as clueless idiots.
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Like in the AWA thread we're in--Schiavone had like 3 bad years in a 20-year-and-counting-year career and was good to great otherwise, even in time periods (1991) when the product was in the toilet.
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1) Larry Nelson- Just so cheesy, no wrestling knowledge and was horrible getting stuff over, like the ridiculous way he sold the Blaster busting threw the wall. I never understood why anyone gave him the job.
2) David Crockett- Well we know why he got the job, but David was just so juvenile with his commentary like an over excited child. I do give him credit for enthusiam though.
3) Dick Graham- I wasn't sure if I should include him, as he wasn't a WWF employee, he worked for Spectrum and they assigned him to do the WWF shows, but Graham was terrible and often exposed kayfabe by saying things like a heel was actually a nice guy away from the ring.
4) Micheal Cole- Just completely generic IMHO
5) Ed Whalen- I know the Stampede fans loved him but to me he had a cheesy delivery that made the product seem small time, and a bad attitude, he seemed to think he was bigger then the wrestlers or promotion he was supposed to be getting over and treated things like a joke to often.
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I don't think he would really qualify since it was just a one-time deal, but I always have to chuckle when I remember Art Donovan commentating on that WWF pay-per-view. Every single wrestler and every single match he would ask "how much does this guy weigh?"
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Post: #1077275
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Russ 'something' the guy who did the Chicago matches from the 50s
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OMG Russ Davis was horrible. He treated wrestling like it was some type of quaint novelty not to be taken seriously.
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Russ Davis' style may have worked for a Gorgeous George match but certainly not for a Verne Gagne/Lou Thesz matchup.
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My five (in no particular order)
1. David Crockett
2. Johnny Weaver
3. Lee Marshall
4. Dick Graham
5. Antonino Rocca
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