WWE News: JR Responds to Michael Cole's Awful Comment on Last Week's Smackdown

After the over-the-top comment from Michael Cole about legendary announcer Jim Ross on last Friday's SmackDown, it might be time for the seemingly never-ending heel run of the "Voice of the WWE" to finally end after the remark.

From Wrestlenewz:

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Friday’s episode of SmackDown saw commentator Michael Cole make a crude remark concerning Jim Ross’ long battle with Bell’s palsy.

After Josh Mathews said Cole speaks out of both sides of his mouth, the esteemed “Voice of the WWE” quipped, “Actually, there is nothing wrong with my mouth, unlike J.R.’s.”

The WWE Hall of Famer took to Twitter to address Cole’s inappropriate remark.

“Hope Cole never gets ill. Sad commentary,” Ross wrote.

Ross then posted a tweet comparing Cole’s snide comment to Ed Ferrara’s parody of him in World Championship Wrestling as the character Oklahoma, which included a mockery of his modified voice due to Bell’s palsy.

“Pathetic cheap heat by Cole. On par with Ed Ferrara if you ask me. Ron White says “You Can’t Fix Stupid.”

Ross added that Cole’s ad lib was “ill advised” and that there are no announcer ‘scripts.’ A Twitter follower of J.R.’s placed the blame on Vince McMahon for the remark, since the WWE CEO typically feeds lines to Cole via headset to be said on-air.

Ross, however, said McMahon was not on hand for Tuesday’s SmackDown taping in Jacksonville, Florida—he was off visiting U.S. Armed Forces serving in Afghanistan and Kyrgyzstan. J.R. instead places the blame on a ‘writer.’

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In the beginning when Michael Cole began to be more of a character than an announcer for the WWE, I thought it was a good move to give him more of a personality than just the simple play-by-play guy at the announcer table.

While it was a fresh move in the beginning for Cole, it quickly became a stale routine on Monday and Friday nights with the constant talk of the Miz, the anonymous RAW General Manager email readings and the standard defaming comments of the aforementioned Ross and Jerry Lawler on WWE TV.

Although the remark about JR was in very poor taste last week, the comment by Cole in the early part of 2011 when the announcer mentioned the recently deceased mother of Lawler pushed it over the top for at least me and wanted him replaced or at least repackaged as a typical announcer as in the past.

So Bleachers, has the heel run of Michael Cole finally ran out its welcome with the WWE fans and need to be a change behind the headsets on RAW and SmackDown?

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