Taz is joined on today’s show by his co-host, Seth.

Taz opens today’s show speaking about his decision to wear suits when he worked on Smackdown’s commentary team. All the other commentators at that time were were t-shirts or other outfits, so Taz wanted to wear a suit to be different. Vince McMahon loved the way Taz looked in a suit and soon mandated that all the announcers needed to wear a suit on air. He got ridiculed by Michael Cole and Jim Ross for a while after that because they were forced to wear a suit because of him.

Taz gets into his analysis of last night’s episode of NXT.

He points out that he liked the cold open of the show featuring The Undisputed Era. He likes that they stared into the camera while cutting their promo, but this was a bit too similar to how nWo would cut their promos during the attitude era for Taz’s liking. NXT even produced this to have a guitar riff in the background like the old nWo promos as well.

Taz urges Triple H to get together with his staff and come up with some original, creative ideas. He points out that this isn’t the 1980’s NWA or 1990’s WCW, this is 2018 NXT, and they have enough creative people there to come up with fresh, new concepts on their own.

Taz says that he’s just going to stop being critical of Mauro Ranallo’s commentary work on NXT programming. It’s obvious that nobody in WWE is going to help Ranallo get better or ask him to fix the things that he continues to do wrong, so it’s pointless to keep talking about it in Taz’s opinion. Instead, Taz simply muted the majority of last night’s broadcast.

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about the commentary at last night’s Survivor Series PPV. He says that it was very tough to follow the 5-man booth, and Booker T came off as most credible out of all the commentators because he was pro-Raw through and through. Michael Cole and Corey Graves seemed to swing back and forth between supporting RAW and Smackdown Live.

In regards to Corey Graves seemingly attacking Booker T from time to time, Taz is sure that Graves wasn’t going into business for himself when he said those lines. All those shots at Booker T were definitely produced for him in Taz’s opinion. He adds that he loves Graves’ work, but Graves shouldn’t have even been on the broadcast last night given that he works on both shows.

Taz says that Graves and Cole teaming up on Booker T is actually starting to annoy him because Booker T is a former World Champion who accomplished a lot in the business. He doesn’t understand why WWE’s producers are dead set on burying Booker T.

He thought The Shield and The New Day had a good match, but he doesn’t understand why WWE bothered implementing any rules during this bout. The 6 men were going toe to toe for the majority of the match, and tags were often of little importance. He points out that Jey Uso’s flying tag to his brother was a spectacular spot.

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Michael Cole provided an “update” on Braun Strowman status during tonight’s episode of RAW and mentioned that Strowman could be out of action for “weeks or even months” after being crushed in the back of a garbage truck at Sunday’s WWE TLC event.

Strowman is of course fine and was backstage at RAW.

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Elias caught wind of the news that Michael Cole will be absent from tonight’s episode of RAW and has decided to dedicate a song to him tonight. (Can’t wait)

Next ones for @MichaelCole.. #Raw@WWE

— Elias (@IAmEliasWWE) October 2, 2017

This will be the second time in twenty years that Cole has missed a week of WWE television broadcasts. Tom Phillips will be his replacement on the show.

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Dave Meltzer indicated in the latest issue of The Wrestling Observer Newsletter that ultimately it was not John Layfield’s actions that caused Mauro Ranallo to leave WWE earlier this year but rather the culture that has been headed by Vince McMahon.

The belief is that JBL’s part was the final straw for Mauro. However, it’s worth mentioning that some of the remarks that made Mauro upset were actually fed to JBL during the broadcasts and not entirely his doing.

Regarding Mauro’s terms to return to the company, he will work with Michael Cole and Triple H instead of having to deal with Vince McMahon.

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