New Raw & SD Commentary teams revealed

[CJ]

Damn I thought Tom was pretty good calling PBP and bouncing off Byron/Graves

 

[KamikazePilot]

Smackdown

 

[Blacknwhite]

Wtf lawler? Jesus get him out of there and put tom phillips on there

 

[RammerJammer]

Wtf lawler? Jesus get him out of there and put tom phillips on there

At least get Nigel or Aiden on there, luckily though, Lawler will slip up and say some shyt about one of the women and get MeToo'd outta here.

 

[reigun]

Damn I thought Tom was pretty good calling PBP and bouncing off Byron/Graves

Honestly the Smackdown team was fine.

 

[Bonefan32]

So the terrible commentary Raw team is now the terrible Smackdown team

And why Lawler back?

Was about to post the same thing

 

[FromStLouis]

Vince didn't want to lose Lawler to AEW

 

[THE 101]

What doesn't even matter who the teams are? It's not possible to have good commentary with the way WWE produces its announcers. They all just turn into cyborgs repeating catchphrases and corporate slogans.

Tom Philips will replace Mauro on NXT within the next two months. Put your house on it.

 

[CBoz]

I was so tired of Byron's babyface shtick.

 

[MartyMcFly]

What doesn't even matter who the teams are? It's not possible to have good commentary with the way WWE produces its announcers. They all just turn into cyborgs repeating catchphrases and corporate slogans.

Tom Philips will replace Mauro on NXT within the next two months. Put your house on it.

Touché

 

[AquaCityBoy]

I was so tired of Byron's babyface shtick.

.

 

[ThisIsLife]

Both commentary teams

Why the fukk would they bring Lawler back and put that shytty Raw team on SD? Vic is cool tho. Haven't heard Dio, yet.

*Insert "Vince is out of touch" rant here.*

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

What doesn't even matter who the teams are? It's not possible to have good commentary with the way WWE produces its announcers. They all just turn into cyborgs repeating catchphrases and corporate slogans.

.

this exactly

 

[TobiOT]

So the 2 dudes who have a history being in the sports industry as a play by play announcer and a former football player respectively aren't on Fox Sports Smackdown?

...Okay

 

[JerseyBoy23]

MORE DETAILS ON WWE BACKSTAGE, FUTURE OF RENEE YOUNG IN WWE AND MORE | PWInsider.com

FOX Sports issued a press release for their new "WWE Backstage" studio talk series that will debut on 11/5, announcing Renee Young and Booker T as the first hosts.

Young will be leaving the Raw broadcast team to concentrate on her hosting duties for WWE Backstage, PWInsider.com has confirmed. She will be the lead personality on the series and will not be, as of today, handling any commentary duties on live WWE programming going forward.

We are also told that the studio show will be set to look like it is inside a wrestling ring with yellow ropes.

The show will be pre-taped once a week and will be under the auspices of FOX, not WWE.

Cathy Kelley will be a big part of the series and will split her time between WWE Backstage and WWE NXT going forward.

There have been a number of WWE legends-type personalities who have been brought to Los Angeles to audition for a role on the show as the idea is to cycle different personalities on different weeks. There may be others personalities who are on weekly, but FOX has not locked that down yet. As late as yesterday, they were trying different ideas out.

FOX has played with different versions of the show and how it will be presented, ranging from 3 -5 personalities but a final decision has not been made as of yesterday.

Update:

STAMFORD, Conn. - WWE Premiere Week ushers in an unprecedented era of coverage with special episodes of Monday Night Raw, NXT, Total Divas and the FOX debut of Friday Night SmackDown bringing fans eight hours of primetime programming.

As part of WWE Premiere Week, new voices will be brought to the Raw, NXT and SmackDown broadcasts. Raw’s new announce team will include play-by-play from Vic Joseph with Dio Maddin and WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler serving as analysts; NXT play-by-play will be called by Mauro Ranallo with Beth Phoenix and Nigel McGuiness as analysts; and SmackDown will feature Michael Cole handling play-by-play, Corey Graves serving as analyst and Renee Young as a Special Contributor.

No idea what special contributor means.