Cole and Tazz
By Scott Keith on May 27, 2018
Dear Scott,
How are you doing today?
So I have been watching WWF stuff from 2002 and I gotta say that I can get a sense of JR saying things that sound a little like Vince is in his ear….
but it is not as noticeable as it is with Cole on Smackdown…
For me I don't really care if it is Vince that causes the announcers to be bad at their job-even Holly pointed out in his book that people do not like Cole as an announcer. He just makes it really obvious.
So to my question-it seems like the only time Cole was not bad as an announcer was when he was announcing with Tazz.
Why was this? Was it because the shows and announcing were better planned out beforehand by Heyman?
And if so, can we assume the announcing isn't going to get better until there is an ownership change?
Cole & Tazz sounded less produced because they WERE less produced. Vince was actually quite hands-off with Smackdown for a long time and apparently didn't start yelling in people's ears again until the point when Mick Foley took over color commentary on the show. As we've discovered quite a few times, un-produced Michael Cole doing his laid-back announcer deal is actually quite entertaining. The best example is the Showdown at Shea special that was on WWE 24/7 (and sadly not on the Network yet) where he and Foley recorded new commentary for it while giving zero fucks and just riffing on all the goofy stuff from the time period.
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