Thread: J.R. almost quits last night
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Old 06-26-2008, 09:32 AM   #114
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Originally Posted by What Would Kevin Do? View Post
So hundreds of thousands of wrestling fans can comprehend what's going on immediately, but he can't, and that's an excuse? If his initial response was anything other than "Holy shit, I'm going to Raw", then he needs to work on his deductive reasoning skills.

One can argue that it may not have been the definite course of events, but it was the most likely. He would have been much more justified if his face didn't show up5 seconds later.
Then JR has no reason to be shocked, either. Once Victoria and Natalya were announced as Mickie James and Melina's opponents, it was pretty obvious that The Bitch Best Friends Forever were going over. Natalya is fairly unestablished as a female competitor, and she has a match coming up on PPV where she is expected to become the first-ever Divas Champion. Her team was not going to lose.

As the draft was only for major moves, Jim Ross or Jerry Lawler would then be the likely picks to move over to SmackDown!. Meaning we'd either get a Jim Ross/Mick Foley RAW team, or a Michael Cole/Jerry Lawler SmackDown! team. Mick Foley is very new to his job on SmackDown!, and is not nearly experienced enough to work live television. Therefore, as SmackDown! was not going to have two color commentators, Jim Ross to SmackDown! was the logical RAW to SmackDown! move.

If JR can lay claim to being shocked and confused about the move, Michael Cole can as well. I also maintain that it is very, very different sitting at home and guessing what is coming, and being out there in front of thousands of people doing live commentary and being with it.

Michael Cole may not have thought he was getting forced out of the WWE, but there was no foregone conclusion that someone else wasn't going to get the RAW play-by-play slot. The WWE has been in talks with that Mike Goldberg guy in the past, and they brought in Mike Adamle for seemingly no reason at all. Vince has ADD when it comes to commentators. I would not put it past the man to bump off Michael Cole for some kind of stunt-commentator trial.

Another thing to keep in mind, is that Melina was legitimately injured during all of this. The ending to the match was rushed, and if Michael Cole knew that Melina was legitimately injured (the referee could communicate with gorilla, and gorilla could communicate with Michael Cole), then the double disqualification ending might not have seemed like the intended deal. It's not like the match went perfectly to plan like, say, John Morrison & The Miz vs. The Hardy Boyz.

I think what it comes down to is this: Michael Cole did not have the same knowledge and perspective as wrestling fans. He was much more emotionally invested in the situation, and it is irresponsible for anyone to say the guy was an idiot for not being sure exactly what was going on by the powers of deduction. JR should have realised at the beginning of the match that he was going to SmackDown!, if that were the case.
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