Excalibur has improves based on the fact AEW has signed some bigger names recently and he doesn't have to explain who they are as much. He thinks people care that he wrestled someone in a bingo hall a decade ago.
JR is fine. He's learnt the product and has a voice that stands out.
Schiavone is boring as fuck. His voice sounds small time and his feud with Cole and Baker is weird.
Schiavone’s voice has been on air since the early 1980s. He had radio jobs and didn’t follow wrestling for more than fifteen years after WCW was sold. Occasionally his voice will raise and he sounds exactly like he did when he was younger.
His appeal is that he was the voice of WCW during the NWO & Austin era. He was all over the place performance wise. To hear him now he sounds genuinely excited and interested in this generation of wrestling. He is a bit of a mentor for Britt. Cole is a jealous duck. I find it pretty amusing that he takes it out on 60something. father of many children. Yet Cole hates him. It’s actually a little subtle for pro wrestling.
JR has been a lot better the past few months. He hasn’t made any Freudian pro wrestling slip ups lately. It seemed like a far too regular occurrence before. He sounds tired and burned out. As long as he doesn’t mistake AEW for WWE again too many times he is productive and still an asset on commentary. Maybe he shouldn’t be asked to do the entire two hours on Wednesday. Hopefully he won’t get too grumpy when he has tocall something that upsets his pro wrestling sensibilities. He was doing it quite often last year.
Taz is a great colour commentator. Partnered with Excalibur and they are a great team. Whether they are being focused and serious on Wednesday and Friday or looser and more casual on Dark - they just compliment one another irregardless of their roles that evening.
Excalibur is great at what he does. I have most likely explained it in this thread or elsewhere. The fact that he wears a mask still warms my kucha loving heart. There are masks all over in lucha.
Announcers, officials and formal events will all show a proud luchadore wearing both his mask and a swanky suit. It just looks natural to me. If he takes the mask off people will just make fun of how he looks. They will do this not because he is ugly but simply because he dared show his face on television. That is one of the reasons I think he should never take it off.
The goofs will just rip on the poor guy’s actual face. Couple that with Corny’s misinformation campaign on all things AEW.
Until the loudest voice in the room is not trolling it will always be an uphill battle towards respect. When someone old and respected starts putting Excalibur over he will always be under the microscope by some nut job with ulterior motives and bad faith arguments. Excalibur is more afraid of them than they should be of him.
