What happened to heel announcers?

[richaveli83]

I was watching a few Raw's from the 90's this past weekend and one of the things that stood out was Jerry Lawler's favoritism towards the heels. Listening to Lawler now compared to 15-20 years ago is like a totally different person. JBL occasionally does some heel work but for the most part he's cheering on the faces like Cole and Lawler.

Will we ever see real heel commentators again or is it a thing of the past?

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Bobby Heenan set the standard for heel announcers. His disappointment for Ric Flair entering 3rd at the Royal Rumble was hilarious

 

[Da King]

King was the GOAT heel announcer, sad what they turned him into

 

[richaveli83]

Bobby Heenan set the standard for heel announcers. His disappointment for Ric Flair entering 3rd at the Royal Rumble was hilarious

at Heenan's reaction to Flair winning!

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

King was the GOAT heel announcer, sad what they turned him into

3: Lawler
2: Ventura
1: Heenan

 

[richaveli83]

"Jannetty tried to dive through the window to escape!"

 

[basketball reasons]

Josh tried

 

[Silkk]

"Jannetty tried to dive through the window to escape!"

 

[Silkk]

Heyman vs JR on commentary was INCREDIBLE. Used to get JR heated

 

[the artist known az]

Lawler used to say something pretty much every week that would make me laugh. I watched a few old episodes over the weekend & still laughed

 

[Da King]

3: Lawler
2: Ventura
1: Heenan

Get your nostalgia bullshyt out of here

Like you even remember Ventura commentary how old are you?

 

[Tanahashi Coates]

Get your nostalgia bullshyt out of here

Like you even remember Ventura commentary how old are you?

You talking about nostalgia and Lawler hasn't been a heel commentator since he left with the company 15 years ago with the fukking Kat fukk outta here. I'm not taking shyt away from Lawler, this is one of my favorite memories of him



Outside of yelling about puppies, the ECW invasion and sonning the Hart family, Lawler doesn't compare to Heenan and Ventura. I remember Ventura in WCW more than WWF but Monsoon/Ventura and Monsoon/Heenan is better than Cokeboy/Lawler and J.R./Lawler. Just an opinion

 

[TOAD99]

The closest modern day heel announcer we have is Corey Graves, who isn't bad at all in my opinion

 

[Silkk]

The closest modern day heel announcer we have is Corey Graves, who isn't bad at all in my opinion

Corino is the best but idk if he's necessarily a heel announcer. Just seems to love adam cole

 

[TOAD99]

Corino is the best but idk if he's necessarily a heel announcer. Just seems to love adam cole

Corino is entertaining.
Adam Cole is great