"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Immature horny goofball with a terrible cadence, lack of match calling (I know he was color but he rarely stayed on match unless puppies, penis jokes, or the ME were around), ear-splitting screaming, and a tendency to look past non Main Event matches to the program ahead while great stuff was happening on screen is not what I would call good commentary. The Heenan-esque shilling for and turning on a dime of heels was just a poor fasicimly of the genuine article.
It wasn't good then and hasn't aged well like most of the AE.
He has his moments, true, but the vast majority of it was shrill, vapid, and sophomoric.
But a lot of people liked that.
Now Jerry on promos and in the ring? Vastly underrated.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
Is WWE really inducting Thunderbolt?
The guy that *almost* and came closest to getting the wrestling union going? And called out NWA's overt racism rather publicly?? And WWE then blacklisted him???
Vince must be fuming.
Notoriety aside, he did great programs with Dusty in AWA/NWA/CWFF, Bob Brown in ASW, Ernie Ladd, Savage, the Poffos, DiBiase ... Glad to see it.
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"Always listen to the crazy scientist with a weird van or armful of blueprints and diagrams." -- Vibranium
No, but JR and King were great together and very entertaining. They almost made it to Gorilla and Bobby legacy but no one has been able to get that good yet.
As for top announcer/calling a match, I think JR and then Michael Cole, Joey Styles. People say Gordon Solie but I am not so sure. His voice is just so monotone and boring. But it's all personal preference.
Michael Cole gets my respect. The man has been the voice of WWE for a very long time now and has come a long way, he’s cool.
I grew up in the Attitude Era, so Jim Ross and Joey Styles remain the pillars of announcing to me.
Is it bad that I liked Announcer Vince?
It’s a new day. Also glad to see it.
BTW, I want this pic of Trick Williams and Lash from NXT last night framed.
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This is right up there with Macho & Liz. Love seeing black couples in wrestling.
Solie was an early voice for me....I can see where Styles gets some things from.
Dutch Mantell was discussing announcing and story telling. As he brought up , the art of an announcer "telling the story" is one some get. He wasn't a fan of Excalibur and did say one thing , "People confuse knowing all these moves with telling a story to the audience as an announcer..."
Watch Jim Ross in his late 90s prime or Joey Styles...between calling moves , they are telling the audience the story as they go. They literally tell the audience WHY this guy in ring is a bad guy and they have emotions.
Nigel could be doing a great heel job (never listened to him) but if the face announcer isn't showing the emotion and making you feel...its lost because the face announcer has to interact and push that. Monsoon did that with Heenan. Callis did that with Joey Styles on ECW.
I been for years wanting Steve Corino as a heel announcer. Put him on RAW.....introduce him as the King of Old School and let him play heel announcer there. He could do it cheering on the heels the entire way. Just have Cole play off him a lot due to it.
"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.
"The story so far: As usual, Ginger and I are engaged in our quest to find out what the hell is going on and save humanity from my nemesis, some bastard who is presumably responsible." - Sir Digby Chicken Caesar.
“ Well hell just froze over. Because CM Punk is back in the WWE.” - Jcogginsa.
“You can take the boy outta the mom’s basement, but you can’t take the mom’s basement outta the boy!” - LA Knight.
"Revel in What You Are." Bray Wyatt.