Lets make fun of Michael Cole

[syxx2001]

Im watching Royal Rumble 99 and Cole is boring, but hilarious. X-Pac and Gangrel are fighting and he goes "At 210 pounds X-Pac has a huge heart.......Big kick from X-Pac, martial arts expert". It sounds like a video game, Smackdown or Wrestlemania 21 or something. Does he still sound like this on Smackdown? (I hope not)

[art_vandelay]

Ah yes, X-pac, the WWF's "Martial Arts Expert". How does one achieve "expert" status in the martial arts? Spinning back kick. That's all there is to it.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Don't forget the chops either. Steamboat did them, Haku did them, X-Pac did them. Spinning back kicks and chops, baby, that's martial arts all-the-way.

[AlaskanHero]

So if Flair could do Spin Kicks, would he be a "martial arts expert"? Inquiring minds must know.

[Enigma]

Michael Cole was really, really bad in 1999.

[King Cucaracha]

So if Flair could do Spin Kicks, would he be a "martial arts expert"? Inquiring minds must know.

 

Only if he wore a) kickpads or b) went barefoot.

[Guest JerichosHi-Lite]

SmackDown series is the best for Michael Cole commentary.

 

 

"The Rock ... is a great ... person"

 

"Oh my god I can't believe he did that, that's sooooo, diiiirty"

 

"Can you believe that Tazz? Wow!"

[Si82]

Michael Cole was really, really bad in 1999.

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Michael Cole was really, really bad in 1999...and is still really, really bad in 2005.

[Kahran Ramsus]

Michael Cole was really, really bad in 1999.

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Michael Cole was really, really bad in 1999...and is still really, really bad in 2005.

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But not as bad as Jim Ross in 2005.

[sluggo]

XPac also had those kicks in the corner which lead to the Bronco Buster

[Silence]

XPac also had those kicks in the corner which lead to the Bronco Buster

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One of the shittiest moves in wrestling history, next to The Worm and Jeff Hammond's "Pitstop" Elbow Drop in TNA.

[Gary Floyd]

XPac also had those kicks in the corner which lead to the Bronco Buster

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One of the shittiest moves in wrestling history, next to The Worm and Jeff Hammond's "Pitstop" Elbow Drop in TNA.

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Or Ronny Garvins "Hands of Stone"

[Big McLargeHuge]

Or the Heart Punch.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Never badmouth the Heart Punch.

[Big McLargeHuge]

It deserves it. The heart punch killed my family.

[Jericholic82]

Didn't waltman have some martial arts background? I mean he wore that whole karate getup at wm 11.

[Jericholic82]

Cole is much better now than he was in 99 and his voice has appeared to have gone down a octave or too. I agree JR now is much worse than Cole now.

[Masked Man of Mystery]

Cole is at his absolute worst when he's on TV(which is most of the time) because he's so focused on shilling the company line(how evil JBL is, etc.), but if you listen to him on the Benoit DVD, outside of their botching Great Sasuke's name, he can call a pretty good match when he's not worried about RVD's style or how cruiserweights are exclusive to Smackdown

[Jericholic82]

Cole is at his absolute worst when he's on TV(which is most of the time) because he's so focused on shilling the company line(how evil JBL is, etc.), but if you listen to him on the Benoit DVD, outside of their botching Great Sasuke's name, he can call a pretty good match when he's not worried about RVD's style or how cruiserweights are exclusive to Smackdown

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True, you can partly blame his annoying ways on wwe's insistence to turn every announcer into a shill, much like wcw did with Schiavone.

[Fro]

Cole got a lot better when Tazz first joined up with him on Smackdown. Both of them seem to be regressing since they get fed a ton of crap to shill all the time and they're probably sick of Vince yelling in their headset.

 

Ross has the stroke to call his own matches, by gawd.

Edited June 2, 2005 by Fro

[Kizzo]

His commentary improved a little bit...when Heyman was the head writer of Smackdown....and was talking into Cole and Tazz's headseats during the matches.......instead of McMahon or Jim Ross...

 

As you can see...when Heyman left....the old Michael Cole came back....

Edited June 2, 2005 by Kizzo

[The Decemberists]

I think there was something on Wrestleline ages ago about Michael Cole's commentry.

 

It was along the lines of instead of saying "and Billy Gunn's knee has been smashed against the ring post!", he says "and the knee of Billy Gunn has been smashed against the ring post!".

 

Which makes the the action seem more, erm, 'distant', sort off. I'm not sure how they, or I can, describe it, but it does make a difference I feel to how involved he sounds.

[Masked Man of Mystery]

I think there was something on Wrestleline ages ago about Michael Cole's commentry.

 

It was along the lines of instead of saying "and Billy Gunn's knee has been smashed against the ring post!", he says "and the knee of Billy Gunn has been smashed against the ring post!".

 

Which makes the the action seem more, erm, 'distant', sort off. I'm not sure how they, or I can, describe it, but it does make a difference I feel to how involved he sounds.

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Well, he's using the passive voice, that's why it's so odd

[Dobbs 3K]

I would still take Cole and Tazz over Ross and the King any day of the week...

 

Michael Cole _has_ gotten better in the last three or four years. At least he actually calls some of the moves that happen in the ring, rather than just calling everything a "hard shot" or "high impact move" like he used to. I seriously recall watching a match he was calling a few years ago (I don't remember who was in it), and I don't think he called ONE SINGLE MOVE by its proper name, other than maybe the finisher during the whole match.