Sam Roberts & Michael Cole on Jerry Lawler, Wrestlemania Match, Cena Heel Turn, & more
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The voice of the WWE, Michael Cole, stops by After O&A Live with Sam Roberts to talk about Jerry Lawler's heart attack, feeding him tater tots, his Wrestlemania match, heat he's gotten, and a lot more.
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He announced SmackDown in it's best years.
him and tazz the best
One of the best team announcers ever 2002 to 2006 :-( time just gets away from us
yup man it sucks
No doubt
@@TheSmedina27 "WILL YOU STOP"
"Jerry had a heart attack live on television and turned me into a babyface overnight" lol
+KalvinEllis lol have to laugh, because he was feuding with him at the time...
+KalvinEllis More like "Jerry had a heart attack live on television and saved the WWE because the annoying as hell Heel Cole ended, making the show watchable again." Am I right?
cheezeofages
More or less.
cheezeofages I'm the only one who liked Michael coles heel run. Trust me I'm not proud.
Lol I read your tweet as soon as you said that.
If commentators weren't fed lines constantly maybe they'd sound better. The WWE commentary team sounds so fake because they're saying what someone wants them to say instead of giving their own reaction. If they were allowed to do their own commentary they wouldn't sound so bad.
Yeah... same goes for the wrestlers too. As Cole said, it is very much "a business" now, so people aren't allowed to do their own thing anymore :(
It's always been that way. You see them feeding lines from Gorilla in Beyond the Mat.
Be that as it may, they're more micromanaged than they've ever been in the past. Rather than being fed specific lines, they seem very strictly dictated in terms of what they have to promote and what they can/can't say. It robs a lot of drama from certain big matches, to be honest.
David Hadley I think they should do something similar to Mike Goldberg of the UFC. He has notes of sponsors, stats, facts, specific things related to the fight. They should have highlights of when a certain move is made say x, but have improvised parts where they genuinely give an opinion as if they didn't know the outcome of the match. If that makes any sense
***** JBL is the one tied directly into Vince, actually. So anytime he says something offensive, there's a 75 percent chance it was Vince lol
What people don't realise is the pressure he is under during the 3 hours. Vince/producers barking in his headset constantly and informing him of the next segments while he is calling action and plugging stuff for 3 hours is no easy job.
i dont care, but michael cole is the voice of smackdown growing up for me.
If you grew up and watched the WWF/WWE during the Attitude Era, you have to respect this guy. He, along with Jerry The King Lawler and Jim Ross fucking kicked ass. I didn't have cable for many years, but I incessantly watched Smackdown and some of the best moments I remember were with him behind the announce table. Michael Cole fucking rocks.
I know Cole is no JR and never will be. But am I the only person who actually thinks Cole's announcing isn't as bad as people make it out to be or hell I think Cole does a pretty good job. Why people hate him because he isn't J.R. is ridiculous
He's a good announcer!! I like him a lot!! He's really funny :) Greets From Hungary!!!
He needs to turn heel.
No, there's a reason why the brought in JBL
True. Fire Jerry Lawler then !
JR is legend, but when Cole and Tazz are together, they're the LORDS!
It is nice to hear Cole admit what a disgrace his match with Lawler was.
PanzerblitzRnR His honesty was refreshing, he even mentioned how they didn't give Daniel Bryan more time in his match too.
It's a classic to me priceless funny
Michael is like alan from 2 and a half men
Hasel I KNOW. How the fuck has nobody else realised this!!!!!!!!!!
Cole is great on commentary. The hate is undeserving
The hate was part of his old gimmick, the only hate he gets now is from JBL, try watching wrestling and then commenting
Luc Fox He for some reason likes to get into arguments with JBL while JBL tries to call the match down the middle
beyond, only play by play commentator with enough charisma to go heel. would of never worked with JR
Psychotracuer Are you being sarcastic? Because JBL is brutal in his love for ALL the Heel wrestlers. Always agrees with their dirty tactics, and talks them up to be the best.
I thought he sucked in 1999 and I still do today. Even when it became cool to "hate" him I wasn't going to join the hipsters and start liking him. The whole Raw booth is terrible at times, really. Even JBL who I was happy to see back has been brutally annoying with his "UH OH! UH OH!" before every big move. I'm not going to give credit to Cole for being the only heel play-by-play guy. All his did was prove that it doesn't work and his same bit of lame fat jokes and super cheap heat made me turn off the TV more than anything else I can think of in recent memory.
John Cena can not turn heel , does so much amazing charity work,will happen later on like kind of how Hogan's career was (With Wrestling) lol
they said the same thing about Hulk Hogan
Sure he could, He didn't want to because of the children
"I've covered wars, you know." Maggle West
Frank...
@Paul Bell You know it
Honestly, I think Michael Cole gets a lot of undeserved hate. He really is a good announcer. He's no JR, not even close, but he's good. People are still talking crap about Cole like it's 1999-2000 and he just got called in to do commentary in JR's place. It's 2013! Get over it. He's been in WWE for nearly two decades and he STILL get crapped on. Whether you like it or not, Cole's the top announcer now. I am a JR guy, but I've accepted it. Others need to do the same.
He's not good. He's a professional but his announcing is sometimes simply moronic and reduces the quality of the product heavily. Present day Lawler sucks too. Look at how their announcing was before JBL came in to save them.
Hermit Stargazer SAVE them?! JBL has no business behind an announce table. He was terrible in 2006-07 and he's bad now. Cole and King are carrying him.
Oh wow. If you think that then we have no common ground to argue on. JBL is a great colour commentator. King is carrying him? Seriously? Cole does the announcing and JBL the color commentary. So their jobs are different and there's no possibility of one carrying the other. But King... I don't know why he still has his job. He simply seems uninterested in the matches and never has anything to say except ridiculous jokes. Face King and face Cole were the worst commentary team before JBL came in and that commentary team was a big contribution to the bad quality of the product. JBL is the most entertaining commentator and he puts over nearly everyone.
HardcorePuckhead LMAO.
It's now 2018 and.... yeah...
Sam you have one of the greatest jobs in the world
Michael Cole is actually a very good commentator. Heel or face.
As a heel I can't stand Cole.
But outside of his character Cole seems like a really cool and nice guy.
+Rob Weck LOL no he's not.
+Rob Weck agreed dude, if you listen to some of his early attitude era stuff, its like night and day. best example: the Raw Mankind beats the Rock for the WWF championship
+eljono1 He's good but shouts the same thing to many times "OH MY!"
😂😂 Please tell me you are kidding
Look, people need to understand that Cole probably has Vince yelling in his ear telling him what to say on commentary
It's nice to see Cole taking the negative bullshit into a positive thing. He laughs it off when people hate on him... I respect Cole & not only that, he's one of the few guys from the Attitude era.
Cole has that fuck it mode, whatever they say about me fuck em. I'm not losing sleep on them fuckas.
I had no idea Cole covered the wars before wwf/wwe. Learn something new everyday.
@@jameslightsey1761 he was commentating one of the biggest moments during the Monday Night Wars, aka Mankind winning the WWF Title and the proof that Michael Cole isn't bad, he's just being fed lines that suck
I'm no fan of Michael Cole....but this is a great interview - way better than i expected anyway. I think he should do more of these, the man barely holds back...just a good, no bs interview.
16+ years in the wwf/e....the stories he must have would be priceless.
He just hit year no.25 this year. Cole's a legend, man.
@@SamuelDuplessis12hope they’re a fan of cole now
JBL and Cole are actually pretty entertaining together.
I would have loved to have seen Takers face when he seen Cole in his singlet lmao
"What has this business come too" 😂😂😂
Vince mcmahon voice: "michael cole! ..... SHUT UP!!!!"
Cole is good at his job. It's not his fault they give him completely awful scripts.
He seems like a pretty decent guy.
he is lol they're normal people outside the shit company standards
Michael Cole is better commentator now
Trying to listen to heel Cole was the worst years of WWE I ever had the misfortune to watch. yeah he was basically just doing what King did in the 90's but at least King could pull it off, all Cole did was act like a gutless coward. Not to forget he basically BURIED Bryan, Punk & ESPECIALLY Zack Ryder after their TLC wins
he did the exact opposite to burying them.
I'd have to disagree with you. He pulled that character off, and really put the heels over. ESPECIALLY The Miz. When he turned face it was a very dark time in commentary. We had two face commentators burying heels and pushing Cena to Mars. (Which didn't help much since all the heels where booked as cowards)
No. Heel Cole was great. He just had really shitty Face commentators to work with, that could never keep up with him or challenge him. Plus, play-by-play guys should NEVER be the Heel.
“What has this business come to?” - Undertaker
I'm not a fan of his commentary on WWE , at all, but I enjoy and will enjoy listening to the man himself outside of WWE. I'm starting to come around to the realization that it's not him I dislike, it's how he's produced/presented.
Wow, I never thought WWE employees were allowed to go to such shows and openly talk about "heels", "faces" etc. This was interesting. I actually like him alot as an announcer, don't get all that hate towards him.
Kayfabe has been dead and buried for quite a while now, so there's little point in dancing around the scripted nature of the business these days.
The internet has killed kayfabe.
I wish he could be himself on wwe tv
I hate & cringe at Cole on commentary these days, but Cole seems like a great guy & I like his earlier work from when he was on Smackdown with Tazz. If only WWE would let him say what he wants instead of scripts of bs.
See cole is a normal guy i think its funny how people cant see the difference between real and character
Michael Cole doesn't get enough credit for his work in WWE. 21 years he has been there. He rarely took days off. And he handled the Lawler heart attack brilliantly.
Cole gives whatever lines VKM gives him. It's not his fault that he doesn't have the charisma to pull off some of the things they've had him do. I don't understand why Joey Styles is put in a room with a computer hidden from the world, but both sides seem happy with that arrangement. We all have to live with the fact that Gordon Solie, Bob Caudill, Lance Russell and Jim Ross type sport based announcers are gone and never coming back.
Michael has changed over the years. he use to be a douche. but he has became a very respectable human being
will love cole now he is so much fun here he could have been defencive here but he is making so many jokes that he comes across like a really nice down to earth guy
8:58 jerry lawler heart attack
I think Cole is so underrated
Jerry the king lawler never in his life smoked or had a drink ? then how come CM Punk is the first straight edge superstar ?
You know damn well as long of a career that Jerry has been in the business that he's had to have had some off nights with the bottle. Not drastically but a few glasses here and there
Straight edge entails more than the no drugs or drinking thing. Also it has to do with the undground punk music movement of the late 80s and early 90s.
wstockslager301 Well no it doesn't. Punks character has a lot of punk music inspiration but straight edge literally just means no drugs or alcohol
he is a nice guy
I really like Michael. He played a brilliant heel, his play-by-play is fantastic and he's a really good guy behind the character we used to see. The hate for him only comes from idiots who think he's still 2011 Cole and people who mock him for mentioning sponsors.
I don't think Vince would ever put Jerry back in the ring... if you remember he was freaked out by the possibility of Ax of Demolition having a heart attack in the ring because of some health issues that came up with him. Then Crush came along and he got phased out.
The problem with Cole's commentary is the micromanagement, in JR's interview he stated that him and King were given more freedom, partly due their experience and probably because there wasn't as much to advertise, these days everyone is just so scripted and railed that it's hard to get anything genuine from them, when Cole commentated the UK tourney, he felt more natural and gave a great performance, I'd say him and Nigel made a better duo than Nigel with JR, as JR hasn't really been in the swing of things on commentary (Due to the tragic passing of his wife) So I feel they should rotate between Cole and JR until JR gets his full mojo back
JR is a legend i admit that, but at the moment Michael cole is the greatest commentator. He is the reason that the main events become so anticipating, he is taking on Jim Ross's role in the PG era and without Michael Cole WWE will go even more down the drain
King was the best when he was a heel commentary.
michael cole is such a chill dude
lol, Cole hates being a face
"it's a great sponsor of double u double u e"
When he would start that he was a war correspondent, knowing nothing of his background, I always thought he was referring to the Monday night wars. 😂😂😂
I know JR is a legend but I feel cole does a good job at commentary. I don't understand the hate he gets.
It's the people and vince on his earpiece that force him to say certain things. Otherwise he is a good commentator.
Cole is awesome
Cole is in ridiculous shape rn.
I got to admit when Cole isn't stumbling on his words he's actually funny to listen too
Man Cole is funny when he's not commentating
Michael Cole still burying tony chimmel
for as much shit that he gets, he seems like a genuinely stand up guy.
I've always suspected that Cole is a cool guy, and is just paid to be a twat on television. Another great interview, Sam. Always love your wrestling stuff.
Michael Cole is a great a commentator.
sam looks like sideshow bob
As long as they know my name. Don’t matter to me💯🔥
maybe i'm being too sensitive cause Jerry wouldn't be, but when they started poking jokes about Jerry's heart attack, that was really uncomfortable :(
is it just me or does sam realy looks a bit like HBK with a afro ? :P
No one interviews WWE Superstars like Sam. He knows his shit, knows what he's talking about and has a passion for wrestling. I love his interviews.
The kids, are the target audience. Wrestling doesn't HAVE to be edgy. I personally love edgy wrestling, but dude, the kids enjoy Santino doing his stupid schtick. You think Santino likes doing that?
Watch a Tons of Funk match. Both of those guys can go in the ring. Before and after, they dance and try to sell merchandise. Really, what's wrong?
I have completely given up on a Cena heel turn because of the stupid Cena kid fans!!! I get so irritated about them! And the sales and the charity stuff is never going to allow a Cena heel turn I've given up with hoping for it
Michael cole should've done part wwe commentary cbs cbs news and cbs radio after being war correspondent but I think he wouldn't stick with Michael Cole as his name at cbs he would go by his real name Sean Coulthard at cbs while he's called Michael cole in wwe
Okay so I know you guys remember Jerry The King Lawler having a heart attack on Raw in Montreal but is there anybody at all remember them using that events as part of their storyline
Every wrestler dresses up for all their appearances and then there's cm punk wearing that old hat, crappy sweatshirt, and whoever wrestler t-shirt.haha cm punk
Ugh... the same old same old EXCUSES for not turning Cena Heel.. Not a surprise at all from the corporate stooge Cole..
Has Michael cole met actor Michael cole it would be hilarious if actor Michael cole replaced commentator Michael cole in the chair at the desk at the start of the show to do the introduction then wwe Michael cole kicks actor Michael cole out of his seat
ask him why he sucks on commentary
He never sucked before. Ready about the scripts the announcers have to read and are being fed through the mic... Not to mention the wrestlers have scripts... Which is just one of a few reasons why the product sucks now.
+rob allman Don't forget the scripts.
+Brandon Henderson I think he forgot to mention about scripts
+Brandon Henderson scripts of Xanax.
answer: Vince mcmahon
Lawler's girlfriend called him on her Barbie phone.
I made q vid of him shilling WWE & he actually liked it.
Michael cole should do more interviews with sam roberts on this show
“We know where he’s going” 😂😂😂
Cena absolutely sucks. Sucks on the mic, sucks in the ring. Just completely sucks!
Cole is cool guy :)
He seems like an awesome dude!
Maggle
22:15 - three years on and Cole is still having to spin the same spiel about mixed reactions for Reigns now. Or maybe he just lets JBL handle it now.
is that squeaky sounding guy a quadroon or octoroon? I ask because of his particularly wirey hair
And that is exactly the problme of the WWE today. It is a busines and that's how it comes around. When I watch it today, it is like watching the news. Wrestling 20 Years ago was fun. The wrestlers were improvising their own statements and today, every word they say is planned. Always political correct, always dressed like models. That sucks!!!
Michael Cole has a hunchback
For as shit as he is on commentary (because he’s told to talk a certain way by the higher ups), Cole is a really good commentator and deserves a ton of praise for his work. If he didn’t have Vince scripting his every word and making him scream all these shit catch phrases like “ThE BiG DoG!” and “BoSs TiMe!”, he would be seen in much higher regards by the fans. As far as this interview goes, he is very well spoken and seems like a great ambassador for the company.
I can understand a little bit of the STICK that Michael Cole gets, Because lately he has done some really daft things for the show.... But I really Don't understand this Immense Hatred for him. Why do people have this vicious Hatred for him?
Its weird because I always liked Cole when he has complimenting JR as the Smackdown announcer, but it seems like his commentary hos gotten worse.
I always thought it was weird that announcers look at their monitors when the action is in their faces. But I guess because when they are in the opposite direction you can't see it. Now when Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross were moved by the entrance way which they had to hate I got why they looked at monitors. It was Eric Bishoff idea to put them back there because in WCW the announce tables were away from Ringside. They kept it like that for many years. I hated it but at least I didn't confuse the Raw and Smackdown and later ECW announcers. But I heard Jim Ross say he hated it. Don't know about Jerry Lawler. I guess it had good with the bad Jim Ross said. The only thing good about it he said was you were not right next to the fans. So you felt safer Because you never know when you will get a crazy fan. But you had a different problem. Pyros. When people came out and it is not time it would sometimes scare the hell out of you. Especially Kane or Booker T or Undertaker or Chris Jericho who all had the explosions. And the Dudley's I forgot he said too. So you never knew when an explosion would go off and they would sometimes slightly hit us. So as much as we loved those characters we were glad to get their entrances over.
Cole is still the voice of WWE!! 🎤
Well Bryan is too much WWE. The whole Yes, No crap and the anti agression shit sucked. I want to see Bryan Dannielson.
Actually when he was in the hospital the food didn't look the healthiest when he did an interview. Even I was like why is he eating like that. He is definitely braver than me. If I was in the same situation I don't know if I would be the same. At least not for awhile. He was smiling acting like nothing happened weeks later in that interview. I Wish I could be that calm. All joking aside God must of been watching over him that night. Others who were in the back said he died for awhile. They were EMP's so I am sure they would know.
I love Michael Cole and just about any broadcast partner except JBL. JBL's heel commentary is a little too heavy handed sometimes.
He was good in the mid 2000s with Taz before Vince was in his ear all the time.
I love Cole. Doesn't take himself too seriously like a champ!
Vintage Video 😅😅
not even 1 thing you said is right, his unbelievable no passion whatsoever you cannot compare him to JR, in your opinion he is that good and i respect that, but, the majority of WRESTLING fans, not SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT fans, and actually wrestlers will tell you that cole couldnt hold JR's jockstrap full stop
the thing about cena is, they dont have to turn him heel. they just need to do something interesting with him. add some depth to his character instead of him being the guy that makes lame jokes that nobody gets and constantly overcomes the odds. he's just not fun to watch and that's why the majority of people that boo him dont like him. ive just given up on wwe doing anything remotely interesting. ive finally realized that im not the target demo for wwe.
i get you buddy but i thnk JBL is better than cole, his like JR, the matches he calls are funny, he actually knows the names of holds as apposed to, supmission manuver applyed to orton, or what a move on byran, JBL mixes the history and origin of holds and moves, do ya see where im coming from
Who gets fitted for a singlet?
Does anyone know where we can see the episode of WWE Off the Air that Michael Cole is talking about at 15:04?
I wasn't talking about that comment to the one when he said that John Cena is the greates WWE Champions of all time he is one of them but he was saying that Cena is better then Bruno Sammartino Hulk Hogan who helped put the wwe on the map Undertaker The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin who helped save the wwe in ratings from WCW who was whooping they ass for 82 weeks
I see what ya mean dude but for me callin a wrestling match, passion and knowledge are paramount for the telling of the story going on in the ring, cole cannot display genuine emotion, and, has limited knowledge of the history of the business,( eg. names of holds who made them famous) for me and a lot of
wanna see enthusiasm and passion for wrestling? watch JR he is the best play by play announcer in the history of wrestling thats a fact , michael cole is god awful,the man cannot call a wrestling match he doesent have a clue