Let's take a minute and discuss Byron Saxton on commentary...

[TheGreatShowtime]

Dude had his opportunity on RAW last night and absolutely blew it. It's like he watched an NFL or MLB game called by Joe Buck and tried to be even more emotionless. I couldn't hear him half the time either. Did Cokeboy yelling in his headset all night have him shook? They even had to bring out King to save him & that didn't even work. I'll be honest and say that I don't watch Smackdown. Is this dude as terrible as he was on RAW on a taped show too?

That trainwreck on commentary actually made me feel remorse for cheering Brock destroying Michael Cole. They should've just let Renee Young & Corey Graves come out and call the rest of the show instead.

 

[Mook]

 

[The Rainmaker]

For a second I thought he was acting afraid of Lesnar coming back, but if that was the case he should have acknowleged it. He was just plain terrible.

I mean, we got the debut of Adrian Neville and the Red Arrow only got a "The Red Arrow. Yay". Sell that shyt, dammit.

 

[Bob-omb]

While Byron did do a bad job, why did Jerry come out so late? Were they really hoping Byron would single handedly commentate the rest of the night?

 

[DoubleJ13]

Don't know why they sent him out there alone for however long it lasted. If they were sending Lawler out there, they should have sent them together. Even with how bad Lawler is at least Saxton would have somebody there to play off of.

 

[3Rivers]

When he jumped the gun and thought rusev was coming out to face cena

 

[D-NICE]

I thought dude was alright for being on dolo for like 30 minutes out there. Its always been awkward to me when someone has to do commentary by themselves for any amount of time especially that long. Even in other sports commentators have to feed off each other so i dont know why they put dude out there like that. Then they aint even give dude a chair on top of that just to add to the awkwardness of the situation.

 

[Silkk]

Vince was probably screaming on him 9/10. Would have anyone shook

 

[jwinfield]

For a second I thought he was acting afraid of Lesnar coming back, but if that was the case he should have acknowleged it. He was just plain terrible.

I mean, we got the debut of Adrian Neville and the Red Arrow only got a "The Red Arrow. Yay". Sell that shyt, dammit.

Didn't he say, "It speaks for itself"

 

[El Guapo]

I watch Smackdown and he's decent/average there. I'm guessing Cokeboy isn't screaming in his headset on that show, but he does on Raw and he got shook.

First segment it was okay, he's doing the "serious tone". I get it. But after that, he was terrible.

"The Red Arrow.... ... ... ... wow"

 

[The Rainmaker]

Didn't he say, "It speaks for itself"

It wasn't an exact quote, I was just pointing to his lack of enthusiasm.

 

[jwinfield]

It wasn't an exact quote, I was just pointing to his lack of enthusiasm.

Nah, I'm agreeing with you.

You're the fukking commentator, you're supposed to tell us what's going on, be excited as fukk that some amazing shyt just happened.

Gus Johnson or Kevin Harlan see some amazing shyt they're

Byron saw some amazing shyt and went "It speaks for itself "

 

[jadillac]

A. Im thinking he was supposed to be shook At first
B. Most importantly, he's not a play by play guy

He got better as the night went on

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

It was a ploy to get him fired in the future.

They'll always cite that night when the evaluating him

 

[45123]

Let's not he fukked up, most of the time he's a pretty good commentator, though aligned with the bland play by play style of commentary that the WWE makes every announcer have