3-Man Announce Teams
By Scott Keith on 5 March 2018
Why has WWE completely done away with 2-Man broadcast teams? I don’t watch a lot of the product, but it feels like, not only has there not been a 2-man broadcast team in a good 12 years or so but the announce teams change constantly mid-event.
I couldn’t tell you who commentated the last 3 PPVs I’ve watched but I can tell you definitively that, for example, Michael Cole and Tazz commentated Unforgiven 2002, and not just by playing the odds. I can remember whole pieces of verbiage between them. Now, I can’t remember one line from Elimination Chamber outside of the trite cliches that get shoehorned into every show.
Beyond this, isn’t it EASIER to just have 2 guys on Raw and 2 on Smackdown? They’re trying to micromanage everything coming out of these guys mouths while keeping track of the stories. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just have 2 guys to control?
For a guy who’s constantly saying, “We’re telling stories,” it really feels like Vince goes out of his way to make the story as convoluted and forgetable as possible.
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Yeah, I’ve never understood it, either. Well, one aspect I do understand, which is that the third member of the team apparently must be a visible minority so Stephanie can promote brand diversity or whatever.