I wouldn't call Mauro cosmetically pleasing, to be fair. Granted, he's of a different caliber of announcer to anyone else WWE has or anyone outside of WWE, but by point was that WWE can give guys gigs as color commentators all they want, but eventually they'll need a new play-by-play and their options are very thin.rovert wrote:He barely passed WWE cosmetic standards 15 years ago for on air personalities. So I doubt it.The Dragon Saga wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if WWE offered Kevin Kelly something in the next couple of years. They got a lot of good color guys but other than Mauro and Cole, they struggle for play-by-plays, and Triple H will most likely just do it for the lulz.
Matt Striker is horrible and Vince thought he was horrible, he'll never get another chance especially since he rags on them every chance he gets.
Josh Matthews is potentially the worst play-by-play commentator of this century. He doesn't seem to actually give a shit and is only working for TNA to get paid and to stick it to WWE in some failed attempt at revenge.
Kevin Kelly has two regular play-by-play roles, one with ROH which WWE seems to target as their main resource of talent and New Japan, who are the biggest promotion outside of WWE. He's - by default - the non WWE essential play-by-play guy because while he's not anything special, he's also not overly horrible, he's a duller version of Jim Ross who trained and mentored him. As I said above, I wouldn't be surprised if they did give him a call one day in the next couple of years - not that I think it would happen, but if did, I wouldn't have to blink twice.