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Originally Posted by J.R.'s blog
On Studying Announcers Today: One a related subject….A Twitter follower asked me if I started in wrestling today who would I study to develop my game as a broadcaster. It would be Gordon Solie, Lance Russell, Bob Caudle, Bill Watts, Vince McMahon, and Gorilla Monsoon for starters. Each had their own, natural style and none of them, more often than not, portrayed the role of a wrestling announcer and none of the aforementioned sought to be the ‘hip, ESPN Sports Center-type’ and strive to be glib and cool and come off as disingenuous.
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Sounds to me like he's not a fan of Matt Striker, but he may be talking about Todd Grisham too. Personally, I like the new style of commentator. What do you think? Is JR on the money here, or is he just bitter becaue he's not in the spotlight anymore?