[Mr. Nerfect]

Michael Cole works better when his partner is better, I think. At one stage, Michael Cole & Tazz were the shit compared to Tazz *waits for someone to quote my post and strikeout "the"*. Cole & JBL worked really well, too.

My biggest problem with Michael Cole, is that he plays a sissy face character. A lot of the time, his love for the faces doesn't come from a real place, and he is just defending them because the script says so. Lawler makes it difficult, because I remember one incident recently (where CM Punk got disqualified against Regal), and King was calling bullshit, but to keep duality, Cole had to completely heel it up and say that it looked like a low blow, which isn't even consistent with his pussy face character.

I remember an edition of Byte This!, where Cole looked like a much smoother guy. He's got brains, and he's probably got more of an ego than his commentary lets on. If they let him spring that out a bit more, he could be a much better play-by-play guy. Cole just needs to play a more neutral role, I think. I'd also like to see him get involved in a storyline. Not anything massive, but right now there is no emotional attachment between him and the audience.

Jim Ross has stuck around for so many years, way past his prime, because he's a commentary icon. The guy is already in the Hall of Fame and he's still working. Yeah, JR puts a lot of emotion into things, and his cries are synonymous with a lot of great moments, but a lot of the reason people really love the guy, is because he hasn't been completely detached from the ongoings of the WWE.

One idea: Chris Jericho calls out Jerry Lawler on RAW one night leading into WrestleMania. He talks about how Lawler phones it in, and that he hasn't been witty in years. He's already in the Hall of Fame, he's done all he can do, he should step out of the booth and let someone who would actually analyse WWE programming in. Lawler gets up, and lets Jericho know that he's not afraid to say to Jericho what he's been saying to the WWE Universe for the past few weeks -- he's a piece of crap, etc. King is ready for Jericho, but Jericho is way out of King's league at this stage, and slaps Jerry around effortlessly. King is carted out, and Jericho joins the announce table and says he could do a better job than the King, and is going to do the color commentary for the rest of tonight's RAW broadcast.

Jericho actually has a shot at being a color commentator, which is something that I truthfully think would be awesome. Cole can make a few slight remarks to Jericho here and there, or just show he is awkward working with a snake like him. Eventually Jericho is going off on a little tangant about Hall of Famers and Legends and whatnot, so Cole pretty much says "fuck this," leaves the play-by-play position, and then spits on Jericho's face, or something. He then marches up the ramp before Jericho has time to process what has happened.

Then you can bring in Todd Grisham, who is usually on hand anyway to replace Cole, and Jericho can either stick around and take the piss out of Cole not being worth the ass-kicking, or have Jericho get pissed off and go looking for Cole, and Matt Striker or JBL can sit in and do the rest.

Something like that could go a long way with boosting Cole's credibility with the WWE audience, because right now, it feels like he has none.