If you watched SmackDown tonight, you heard the World's Strongest Man on commentaty during the main event. And he was good. He was just so good at the job of being a heel commentator in all the ways that Michael Cole is not. NorCal pointed out in the LD that he bore similarity to Jesse Ventura himself.
There's a perfect storm of circumstance a-brewin' here. One, Booker T, the third man in the SmackDown commentary booth, is apparently occupied with wrestling now, as he feuds with Cody Rhodes and potentially continues on to a match at WrestleMania. Two, Mark Henry is apparently hurt. We saw a similar situation arise last year when CM Punk was hurt, and he was placed on commentary for a while while he rehabbed, so that he could remain relevant until he got his health back.
Do you see what I see, here?
I can't think of a better scenario for the WWE to really spice up Friday nights and keep Mark Henry in the picture as he gets healthy than to make him the interim third man at the commentation station until he's ready to get back in the ring and Booker T is ready to exit it. Henry was a fun, aggressive, hell color commentator that could really serve well in the booth for SmackDown in the coming weeks, or even months, depending on just how serious his injury is. I would love to see this happen, both as a way to inject awesome commentary into SmackDown a la Punk on Raw, and to keep the big man that I've come to love so much on the TV screen while he gets healthy.
What do you think? Should Henry take over commentary duties while he rehabs his injury? Would you be happy to see this occur?
There's a perfect storm of circumstance a-brewin' here. One, Booker T, the third man in the SmackDown commentary booth, is apparently occupied with wrestling now, as he feuds with Cody Rhodes and potentially continues on to a match at WrestleMania. Two, Mark Henry is apparently hurt. We saw a similar situation arise last year when CM Punk was hurt, and he was placed on commentary for a while while he rehabbed, so that he could remain relevant until he got his health back.
Do you see what I see, here?
I can't think of a better scenario for the WWE to really spice up Friday nights and keep Mark Henry in the picture as he gets healthy than to make him the interim third man at the commentation station until he's ready to get back in the ring and Booker T is ready to exit it. Henry was a fun, aggressive, hell color commentator that could really serve well in the booth for SmackDown in the coming weeks, or even months, depending on just how serious his injury is. I would love to see this happen, both as a way to inject awesome commentary into SmackDown a la Punk on Raw, and to keep the big man that I've come to love so much on the TV screen while he gets healthy.
What do you think? Should Henry take over commentary duties while he rehabs his injury? Would you be happy to see this occur?