Paid Members WeeAl Posted October 1, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2019 Seeing Jerry Lawler back on the commentary desk on Raw this week (and being the best commentator they've had since the last time he was a regular at the desk) got me thinking about how, as strange as it is, it would have been possible to get a Tony Schiavone and Jerry Lawler commentary partnership, in 2019. It's kind of damning of the commentary landscape, that those two are still better than pretty much everyone else out there. Imagine how good they could have been at their peak if they had chemistry as a pair? Who would you put together at the desk, that never actually worked together? Either a terrible pair of commentators for shits and giggles, or a pair/three person booth that you think could have been really good had the circumstances been different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted October 1, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2019 5 minutes ago, WeeAl said:  It's kind of damning of the commentary landscape, that those two are still better than pretty much everyone else out there. Imagine how good they could have been at their peak if they had chemistry as a pair? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WeeAl Posted October 1, 2019 Author Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2019 (edited) 10 minutes ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:  I should have known somebody else would have thought this was a good idea! I'm going to guess, since it was the XWF, neither of these guys bothered with putting in even half a shift? Good way to start the thread Alan. Real smooth. 🙄 Edited October 1, 2019 by WeeAl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted October 1, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2019 They were pretty decent together actually. Both seemed up for it. Lance Russell and Bobby Heenan would have been amazing together. Nobody was better at freigning disgust at a good one liner like Lance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ElCece Posted October 1, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 1, 2019 I would of loved listening to Gorilla get more and more pissed off listening to the never ending hyperbole coming out of Mauro Ranallo. A pairing I think would of been bloody great together would if been Gorilla again and Paul Heyman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEGABUCKS Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Vince McMahon and Paul E. Dangerously in the mid 90's would have been good. I know Paul joined in on commentary with Vince and King for the Ecw Raw episode but more a full time thing with just Vince. Maybe on Shotgun Saturday Night when they held it in around New York in 97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted October 2, 2019 Moderators Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) 6 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said: They were pretty decent together actually. Both seemed up for it. Lance Russell and Bobby Heenan would have been amazing together. Nobody was better at freigning disgust at a good one liner like Lance. "Oh come on. Don't start with that stuff" pisses all over "will you stop?". I still say Russell and Michael Hayes was the best PbP with heel colour man team ever mainly because of Russells disdain for the words of Hayes. Imagine the fun it'd have been with Heenan. Spunk everywhere.  I'm a similar vein I'd loved to have heard Dave Brown with Corny, Hayes or Heenan too. Disdain at it's best. Probably because he was totally fucking fuming as a shoot with his charity work and position as top weather man at WMC5.    Fuck me ragged, Russell and Brown were amazing. Edited October 2, 2019 by PowerButchi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 4 hours ago, PowerButchi said: Fuck me ragged, Russell and Brown were amazing. I have a vote in the Observer Hall of Fame this year. First name I checked on the ballot was Dave Brown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted October 2, 2019 Paid Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Lance Russell and Jesse Ventura for me, even moreso than Russell and Heenan. While Heenan was amazing, and at times could add so much to a story, Ventura on a match-to-match basis felt like a more believable heel analyst - he wasn't just supporting the baddies because that was his job, or making excuses for them, he fundamentally believed that they were in the right. That combined with Lance Russell, who wasn't just a by-the-books babyface announcer, but also a welcoming, familiar Saturday morning TV presence, would be wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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