5 Commentator matches you may not remember

This guy should only be in the ring to interview wrestlers

#1 Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler (WrestleMania 27 - April 3, 2011)

This match should have never, ever, eeeeeever happened.

WrestleMania 27 was one of the worst WrestleMania events of all time. A boring match between Triple H and The Undertaker (who went on to have an all-time classic one year later) and a disappointing match in the main event between John Cena and The Miz headlined this stinker.

Another highly publicized match on the card was EVIL Michael Cole vs. Jerry Lawler. Michael Cole “graced” us with one of the worst long-running heel commentator gimmicks of all time -- heck, it was one of the worst heel characters of all time in general.

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Praising The Miz, hating Daniel Bryan, sitting in his own special glass box at ringside and overall just being insanely obnoxious were his most “entertaining” traits.

It seemed as though their match at WrestleMania 27 was going to mercifully end the feud between Cole and Lawler, and put the terrible heel version of Michael Cole to rest forever.

Instead, the exact opposite happened. Jack Swagger, who trained Cole for the match, interfered and cost Lawler the victory, and it wasn’t until TWO MONTHS LATER that Lawler finally got his revenge at Over The Limit.

We were supposed to get his classic piledriver after a two-to-three minute match, Cole getting kicked out of the ring and Lawler celebrating and going back to commentary after not even breaking a sweat.

Instead, Cole won, then he and Jack Swagger teamed up to beat Lawler and Jim Ross the next month at Extreme Rules in a “Country Whippin’ match”, because why not abuse Jim Ross for no good reason? Lawler finally won, as mentioned above, at Over The Limit, 4 weeks later. And we never got that damn piledriver.

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