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The Nitro Commentators Were Stupid

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I'm watching a Nitro from October of 96 and Jeff Jarrett debuted. The announcers declare him a member of the NWO and talk about all the promises Hogan must have made him to get him to join.

Their reasoning for declaring him a member: he got out of a black limo. On his own. In a suit. Talking about being in a new home. That's it.
 
It's so sad too because if you watch Starrcade 95, Tony is snapping off move names like he's Joey Styles' smarter brother. Eric in their headsets ruined that show's commentary.
 
These are the same geniuses who thought it would be a good idea to announce that Mankind would win the WWF title on raw because it was pretaped. Stupid commentating was pretty much par for the course over in WCW.
 
Aww I liked the totally unaware approach that the WCW commentary team had. Remember when Goldberg first debuted?

'We're having trouble getting anything on this young man, Goldberg'.

Really? He works at your developmental scheme.
 
Remmber the OWN? How nobody backstage could see the Warrior reflection in the mirror, because it was just a vision Hulk Hogan was having...except Tony Schiavone could see the Warrior somehow...
 
Whose insanely moronic idea was that? I completely forgot about that...Holy shit. Heenan would have been amazing as an nWo sympathizer, in the Kent Brockman "I for one, salute our new ant overlords" kind of way.
 
Whose insanely moronic idea was that? I completely forgot about that...Holy shit. Heenan would have been amazing as an nWo sympathizer, in the Kent Brockman "I for one, salute our new ant overlords" kind of way.

Which makes more sense: Brain being a WCW supporter, or Brain being a Hulk Hogan supporter? We've gotta remember Heenan made his name in WCW and WWF hating on Hogan.
 
you ppl are idiots:
1) when the nWo first appeared; it was considered that ANYONE could be a member of the nWo; Jarrett being an immediate transfer from WWE was an obvious suspect.

2) he hit the profile: semi talented with minimal push from the powers that be.

3) Heenan was NOT AN NWO SUPPORTER BC HE WS ANTI-HOGAN! the reason he remained along side WCW was bc he's ALWAYS been against Hogan....
 
Which makes more sense: Brain being a WCW supporter, or Brain being a Hulk Hogan supporter? We've gotta remember Heenan made his name in WCW and WWF hating on Hogan.

Brain as Hogan supporter. The reason Heenan hated Hogan was because Hogan was the strongest face on the roster. In the nWo, Hogan was the strongest heel. Heenan has always been a heel, and has always supported the heels while commentating. I would think that Heenan, in character, would be glad that Hogan finally saw the light.
 
Heenan's reason for hating Hogan was that Hogan was in it only for himself and Hogan proved him right, so it would be hypocritical of Heenan if he started liking him. Just hear his comment after Hogan's heel turn at BATB 96 where he says he told everybody all along that Hogan was in it for himself.

Back on topic, I agree. Tony Schiavone was a moron who would declare every Nitro, PPV & WCW match the "greatest in WCW history", dunno who could take him seriously. Whoever said Mark Madden is a genius is a bigger idiot than Madden is. He was nothing but just a cheap lame wannabe ripoff of Lawler when he was heel, he's one of the worst commentators ever. Scott Hudson was plain and boring.

The only WCW announcers who were ever any good were Jesse Ventura, Bobby Heenan, Mike Tenay but only when he was providing information on the Lucha Libre wrestler's backgrounds and Larry Zybsko.
 
Bull, if Jerry Lawler gets no crap for siding with Bret Hart once Bret turned heel, there's no reason that Heenan couldn't side with Hogan when Hogan turned heel, especially since Heenan no longer had his Heenan Family stable to feud against Hulk Hogan.

I actually liked Heenan, Tenay & Zbyszko.

People crap on the WCW commentary team but I liked them WAY better than Jerry Lawler at his best (worst). I'm watching the attitude era week by week right now, and Lawler is the most obnoxious idiot I've ever heard. It's no wonder Micheal Cole turned out the way he did, he had King as his mentor.

Personally I think King & JR are an over-rated commentating team. They weren't bad, but I've yet to see any indication that they were GOOD. They were right about on par with Heenan, Tenay & Zbyszko.

I'll agree that Heenan should have been a heel commentator, but even then, Heenan tried several times to infuse some humor into his commentary but no one ever took the bait like Monsoon used to, eventually he really lost his passion, and who can blame him?

Even so WCW commentary wasn't as goddamned annoying as The King at any point in time, or Micheal Cole at his worst.

It's too bad WCW didn't have Jesse Ventura and Bobby Heenan doing commentary together (at least I never saw them together) I think a heel Ventura and face Heenan might have been pretty decent.

My favorite line of commentary ever came from Hogan vs Goldberg for the WCW title, when Heenan starts off with "This place will erupt when he picks him up." The finale to that match was made even better because of Heenan as a face cheering on Bill Goldberg.
 
Assinine up there.

Can't touch Lawler's drooling and heelish/comedy remarks and his coarcing of JR about puppies and sexual innuendos, during the Attitude Era.

E.g-

The Rock trash-talking to Jericho on debut : "You talk about your Y2J Plan, well The Rock has the KY Jelly Plan"

King: "Ohhh you know what that is JR?"

JR: "(sheepishly) Ye."

King "You do?!!"
 

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