The following is from an August 2001 Wrestling Classics message board post. These are wonderful observations, wonderfully written, about Bob Caudle.
I've listened to a lot of Bob Caudle in the past few days and I've grown to appreciate him even more. He's got that Charles Osgood-just-stopped-by-on-the-way-to-see-Mama-at-the-retirement-home-and-decided-to-call-an-hour-of-wrestling-matches thing going that was the perfect anchor for the madness going on around him.
He never overplayed the face/heel thing. He always gave everyone the benefit of the doubt. Greg Valentine wasn't this "evil rulebreaker who cheated to win," he was a "fine athlete who's double-tough." Then when he actually did cheat, Caudle was there to express just the right amount of shock and disappoint (it was more "Greg, how could you?" than "You sonofabitch!").
Then when someone would explode (think Flair with those red-faced, vein-popping promos), it really seemed like something big was going down. Caudle would gradually inch away from the wrestler ... hold the mic at arms length.
I miss the quiet moments in wrestling. Because when everything's playing at 11, there's no where else to go.Wrestling Classics, in a thread titled "Mid-Atlantic TV", response to original post written by username 13 Time Jumanji Champ, posted at 8:37 AM, August 17, 2001.
