Lilian & Eden just don't cut it as ring announcers, they just don't have the oomph Justin Roberts had. What are your thoughts? Do you miss him, do you care? Who will lead @ WrestleMania - Tony Chimel would be the best vote imo.
Roberts was always shit. The WWE has been missing Fink for years. Chimel was good for regular shows back in the day, until he got replaced by that skank Lillian.
That gave me so much happy nostalgia. Unbelievable that the company died about 2 to 3 years later when you see how amazing and pumped that crowd was for ddp vs Goldberg main event.
Also I will miss justin Roberts for ppvs. I've gotten use to Lillian but I'm not huge on Eden yet. There's not umph with them.
Nobody is ever going to love the way Lillian or Eden announce something - they'll just tolerate it. However, with Roberts, even though he had some detractors he managed to hype up a lot of people.
Even if it's a relatively minor thing, the show will be poorer for his absence in my opinion.
Eden is the only ring announcer that I honestly cannot stand. Her voice grates my ears. Gorgeous lady but announcing just isn't her thing. She doesn't have the voice for it.
Lilian is a doll and I always loved her but I agree she doesn't have that big hype feel. I always felt like she was sufficient for the job though.
Roberts definitely had that "oomph" factor to his style. He sounds like he could succeed in opera music, lol. Sometimes he would be too much for me but overall I think he's great at announcing and selling the performers.
Always loved Tony Chimel and associate him with being the ring announcer face of SD during the RA era. I liked his style, just something about him.
Howard Finkel... THE FINK! GOAT. God-tier. Can we just bring him to the Fountain of Youth so that we can have him for another 50 years please???
Roberts (more than Chimel) & Chimel (Not really, but more times than Lillian and Eden ever could) have the power to give goosebumps before a big match. Lillian or Eden don't have that power, they make the audience fall asleep. Fink would be great, but I doubt he'd come back at his age
I hated his exaggeration on names, I mean was that really necessary? The Fink is the GOAT, The way he did if was perfect. Chimel was good as well, he did slight exaggeration on some names such as Edge (the rated R suuuuuuuuuuuuperstar) but he was much better than Roberts.
I mean was there any need to say John Cena's name for his whole entrance?
C'mon guys, whole wwe is crap right now but the announcers are not problem at all
Finkel is GOAT and there will never be next Howard Finkel
Justin Roberts was fine, good guy, he lived his dream and he left but I think that he will be back at some point
Tony Chimel is also good, he was the original SD announcer from 1999 until 2007 and I liked when he did 'RATED R SUPERSTAAAAAAR EDGEEE'' that shit was awesome
Lilian Garcia is good announcer and she is such a nice and humble human being....tbh not bad looking either
Eden is meh, young and good looking, still not good as announcer but I'll give her some more time
Problem is future announcer, that JoJo bitch, she's not announcing, she's fcking screaming like pikachu
Besides, who else can be announcer except these 4 people, Mike Adamle comes back as announcer maybe? Scott Stanford? Snooki? Maria Menounos? Great Khali? OMG just imagine The Great Khali announcing, hilarious
WWE needs a decent male ring announcer who does not screw up the names of titles at ppvs like the screwups we heard at FastLane. For the Divas Championship the announcer called the title as the "Women's Championship" or announced Nikki Bella as the Women's Champion. For the tag-teams, the announcer actually stated "still new tag-team champions". How the F can something be still and new at the same time?
I don't miss Justin Roberts at all. Yeah mistakes like that ^^^ happen but can be learned from ... we didn't learn how good it was not to have Jaaaaannnn Ceeeeeeeennnnnnnaaaaaaaa .... until Justin Roberts got himself fired.
I think JoJo is outstanding and I'd love to see her be the main ring announcer. She has almost a Lenne Hardt (PRIDE ring announcer) influence in her voice, where she ferociously screams the names that I think is the right energy needed for a wrestling show.
I adapted to Justin Roberts, but am totally okay with WWE moving on.
I dont miss roberts. I do agree Finkel was my fave.
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