Man, was he awesome as a color commentator during his entire heel tenure in WWF/E, from the 90s to the early 2000s, and he was even a good face color guy, but in these days he absolutely blows!
I could play some recorded stuff of his from SvR 2011, and it would be much better than what he tries - or not even tries anymore - to do every Monday night.
For my money, he's even worse than Michael Cole.
It really started happening around the time when JR got drafted to SD and Cole to Raw. I guess at that moment, King realized that WWE didn't really care about him or JR.
He started losing it in late 2005. He's getting older and has lost his passion for the product. Not to mention that he recently stated in an interview that he doesn't even want to do commentary and would rather wrestle instead.
In that case, can we have Mark Henry end his commentary career with a World's Strongest Slam on the announce table and effectively becoming his replacement?
Thereafter, his first wrestling match will be against Hornswoggle in a dark match no DQ where match ends in 5 seconds after a low-blow by Hornswoggle.
His second match will be a handicapped buried alive match against HHH and Kane. (You know the ending to that one)
One thing's for sure: he stopped being funny. He's a crappy straight man, and had the most passion/flare as color commentary. I like Cole as a heel, but I'd rather see him as a manager or some other on-screen persona rather than in the shoutbox. Have him being GM of Smackdown maybe? Just a thought.
he's just doing what he WWE tells him. They want bland Lawler, he shows up and gets a check. If they wanted anything interesting from him, they could get it.
WWE is satisfied with his commentary, why should he change??? Don't blame him, blame WWE!
The really heelish Lawler from The New Generation Era when he fueded with Bret Hart was Lawlers best work as well as his shooting on ECW, Hell I even liked Lawlers fued with Doink the clown. Lawler made me really hate him back then, I think he was even the most over heel, and who can forget the Burger King chants?
His work in the Attitude era is also great, he was kinda "I'll cheer for who I want" rather than a full blown heel commentator usually favouring DIVA matches as shouting "puppies" where as the New Generation provided Lawler with his best work, The Attitude Era provided Lawler with his funniest, he developed well too. After the attiude Era he started to develop more into a face commentator, which wasnt bad to start with but by 2006 it all went downhill.
King and JR are still one of my fave commentatopr teams of all time only beaten by Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon
He's lost all his passion. He just wants to wrestle, it seems. I'd much rather have Jerry going out and giving it all in the ring every week than have him waste away on commentary. He can still go and it's clear he wants too.
he started to go down round 2005-2007 cos when he came back in 2001 after he walked out he was still good. I guess when they put JR on RAW ending their run together he just decided to not care cos WWE didn't seem to really care about the King/JR partnership to keep it going.
he said himself in an interview that he doesnt like commentating anymore
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