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The Wave Master posted...

and I'm not saying Corey Graves is a better choice as a heel commentator

I'd be willing to say that Corey Graves is a better heel commentator than JBL, though.

Honestly, at this point, he's probably the best active commentator they have main roster, which is why I'm not too bothered by the fact that he's the one they chose to straddle both Raw and Smackdown. Most of the other options would have been way, way worse.

The flip-side of that is, it's sort of acknowledged that certain announcers have Vince in their ear the entire show (and JBL was his go-to guy for a while), so sometimes it's hard to tell if an announcer is being awkward/terrible on their own, because they're just regurgitating things Vince has told them to say, or because they're getting distracted trying to pay attention to the ring, the other announcers, AND Vince and production/Kevin Dunn at the same time. So it's possible that, for all that JBL has kind of sucked lately (and Booker definitely does), it might not be their own fault.

Which implies if Corey is getting moved up to "announcer prime" position, his performance might start suffering in the same way.


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