From what Rob Naylor says, Saxton is well liked, but I gather he's content in playing that doofus stooge role on commentary. It's not a question of seniority.
FWIW, I think the 3 man booth was exposed on both shows this week. Graves didn't say a single word for the first five minutes of the show. Not a single word. Smackdown was a clusterfukk as well. JBL was constantly talking over the top of Ranallo and Otunga. He was horrible.
JBL always takes it too far. I remember him saying something about how he would pull the plug on Saxton's life support to charge his phone.Just talk about the in ring shyt, tell a few stories, and throw some jokes out there.
That roast session between announcers is wack and played out

I was waiting the entire time for Graves to throw shots at Cole.
I'm still waiting.
Says a lot that some smarmy cave cac who's younger 'invented' shytting on the black announcer who is his senior but I digress. I wonder if anyone talking about 'it's not about race bro, all lives matter' in this thread can show me a white announcer who got shyt on for as long as Saxton seems to have.