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Topic	Valley of The Geeks
ParanoidObsessive 09/19/19 3:29:55 PM #281:	The Wave Master posted... I'm all for giving women a chance in a male dominated industry like Pro Wrestling, but she is just terrible at her job. Just awful. Her timing is horrible, she has no chemistry with anyone she works with, and offers no insight into the match at all. Also, her voice gets on my nerves lately. It's about as bad as Troy Aikman with Joe Buck doing football games. She was great when she was doing Talking Smack. The biggest problem she has is one that isn't actually her fault, and which ruins other commentators as well (Michael Cole specifically). Namely, when Vince MacMahon is shouting innate bullshit into your ear on a regular basis, it can be hard to actually do your job well. Because he is an insane old man who is 40 years out of touch and who has massive disdain for his audience, and doesn't tolerate free will or attempts to manifest personality from his toys. Even Corey Graves suffers from it - he's become way worse since coming to the main roster. It's also one of the main reasons why Mauro Ranallo is one of the better commentators on NXT but absolutely refuses to work on the main roster. The other problem she suffers from is the same problem multiple other commentators suffer from as well - namely, being part of a three-man commentary team. A strong face/heel dynamic between play-by-play and color commentators tends to be the best combination in wrestling in terms of personality dynamics (which is why JR and Lawler and Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are probably the two most beloved combinations to this day). Once you add a third commentator, they tend to wind up having trouble asserting themselves or finding their voice. Renee is basically stuck between Corey's strong heel persona and Michael Cole as Vince's official ventriloquist dummy, and it kind of screws her over (in the same way it hurt Percy Watson and it hurts Beth Phoenix in NXT, and part of why people have been complaining about AEW going the same room, leaving Alex Marvez the odd-man-out). You won't have to worry about her much longer, though. She's going to be off commentary entirely once the network brand split comes (they're moving her to host a discussion show on Fox). They're also supposedly dropping back to a two-man commentary team for both shows, which is a 100% positive. Though knowing Vince, he'll change his mind about that after a week or two and probably turn them into four man teams or something. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:927666932] in Valley of ... [t:77923465]...</cite> <quote>The Wave Master posted...</cite> <quote>I'm all for giving women a chance in a male dominated industry like Pro Wrestling, but she is just terrible at her job. Just awful. Her timing is horrible, she has no chemistry with anyone she works with, and offers no insight into the match at all. Also, her voice gets on my nerves lately. It's about as bad as Troy Aikman with Joe Buck doing football games. </quote> She was great when she was doing Talking Smack. The biggest problem she has is one that isn't actually her fault, and which ruins other commentators as well (Michael Cole specifically). Namely, when Vince MacMahon is shouting innate bullshit into your ear on a regular basis, it can be hard to actually do your job well. Because he is an insane old man who is 40 years out of touch and who has massive disdain for his audience, and doesn't tolerate free will or attempts to manifest personality from his toys. Even Corey Graves suffers from it - he's become way worse since coming to the main roster. It's also one of the main reasons why Mauro Ranallo is one of the better commentators on NXT but absolutely refuses to work on the main roster. The other problem she suffers from is the same problem multiple other commentators suffer from as well - namely, being part of a three-man commentary team. A strong face/heel dynamic between play-by-play and color commentators tends to be the best combination in wrestling in terms of personality dynamics (which is why JR and Lawler and Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan are probably the two most beloved combinations to this day). Once you add a third commentator, they tend to wind up having trouble asserting themselves or finding their voice. Renee is basically stuck between Corey's strong heel persona and Michael Cole as Vince's official ventriloquist dummy, and it kind of screws her over (in the same way it hurt Percy Watson and it hurts Beth Phoenix in NXT, and part of why people have been complaining about AEW going the same room, leaving Alex Marvez the odd-man-out). You won't have to worry about her much longer, though. She's going to be off commentary entirely once the network brand split comes (they're moving her to host a discussion show on Fox). They're also supposedly dropping back to a two-man commentary team for both shows, which is a 100% positive. Though knowing Vince, he'll change his mind about that after a week or two and probably turn them into four man teams or something. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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