Your Favourite Wrestling Announcers?

[Burke]

Who are they? Also, least favourites? And overall best/worst announce teams?

I hate Matt Striker. And even after all these years, Michael Cole still sucks as an actual announcer and is only good for unintentional comedy.

Even though he didn’t do it for long, I liked Mick Foley as an announcer. Same with JBL (even though I hated him as a wrestler). And Booker T is hilarious.

I grew up with JR and King so JR will always be my favourite though. And JR and Paul Heyman are my all-time favourite duo.

My favourite JR moments:

*After HHH cost Austin a WWF title match with Kurt Angle*

“That son of a bitch! Austin had the match won! Damn Triple H! Damn his soul! Austin had the WWF title won here! This is not right! The Game has screwed Stone Cold out of the WWF title! You cost Austin the title you bastard! The son of a bitch hit Austin in the head with a steel pipe! What the hell is this? For God sakes! Austin is busted wide open! He’s bleeding like an animal! Good God almighty! For the love of God somebody stop this! The Game has busted Austin open! The Game has cost Austin the WWF title! Damn you Helmsley! Damn you! Damn you! Damn you all to hell Triple H you son of a bitch!!!”

*After Austin turned heel at WM X7*

“What the hell is this?! Good God almighty! God almighty I can’t believe this! What the hell is this?! Austin face to face with McMahon! Stone Cold is shaking hands with Satan himself! For the love of God someone tell me this is not happening! I don’t believe this! What the hell?! Son of a bitch! Son of a bitch I don’t believe this! Steve Austin’s drinking a damn beer with Mr. McMahon! Stone Cold has sold his soul to Satan himself to win the WWF title! Why Steve, why this way?! For the love of God! Austin and McMahon might as well urinate on The Rock! That’s what they’ve done to him! I can’t believe this! I thought I knew Austin! I thought I knew the Texas Rattlesnake! I don’t believe this! I thought I knew that man! I thought I knew Steve Austin! For the love of God Steve stop it! Just stop! I don’t like this a damn bit! This is a relentless, perverse, animalistic attack on another human being! But why?! By God I wanna know why! We deserve to know why! Why did Stone Cold sell his soul to Satan himself?! For the love of God we’ve got a new WWF Champion! And good God almighty, things will never, ever be the same!!!”

*When Austin made his return in 2003 after walking out the previous year*

“And by God there he is! The toughest son of a bitch in the WWE is at No Way Out! And by God, he came to whip another man’s ass! This is un-by God-believable! Stone Cold! Stone Cold! You talk about an ass whipping! You talk about a Texas sized ass whipping! Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Bischoff got just what he deserved the son of a bitch! The Texas Rattlesnake is back! The Texas Rattlesnake is back, King and Coach!” *Pushes King and Coach who tell him to sit down and look at him like “dude, you’re going to have a heart attack”* “There’s sixteen thousand standing! Why the hell can’t I stand?! This is a moment, ladies and gentlemen! This is a moment! Feel it! Look at it! Experience it! Stone Cold Stunner! One more time! One more time! The Texas Rattlesnake is back on RAW! What an ass whipping! What an ass whipping! Stone Cold is back and he just whipped Bischoff’s ass like a government mule! The Texas Rattlesnake is back in the WWE! The toughest SOB! Oh my God what a night! What a night! What a night, the Rattlesnake is back! And he whipped that son of a bitch’s ass!!!”

And of course there’s the classic “Lita just jerked Edge off…the ladder!” foreshadowing from WM X7.

[Tiarnán]

1. JR
2. King when he was with JR
3. Tazz
4. Paul Heyman
5. JBL
6. Josh before he got an ego
7. Mick Foley, although he was terrible at One Night Stand
8. William Regal/Scott Stanford

I really like all of that lot.

I didn't think Michael Cole was that bad when he was Tazz and JBL, because they actually worked well with him. He's just absolutely terrible with King, and even worse as a heel because that way he's terrible regardless of who he's with.

Coach was really bad too and I hated when they stuck him in with JR and King that time just for the sake of it. Todd was boring. I can understand why people hate Striker, but I think he has his moments.

Oh, and that guy who was on TNA for ages. Don West? He was really, really bad.

[Tarry]

1. JBL
2. Bobby Heenan
3. Michael Cole
4. Nigel McGuinness
5. William Regal
6. Joey Styles
7. Paul Heyman

[Brandon]

Maryse.

[Mutant Couch]

1. Heenan
2. Dusty Rhodes
3. JBL
4. Tazz
5. Joey Styles
6. Coachman/Grisham

I actually really liked Todd Grisham. He was great at play-by-play. He was proficient without being annoying. I'm in the minority, but I hate JR. He's irritating and sloppy. Plus, his BBQ sauce sucks. Which in my opinion makes him a bad person.

[jayzero42690]

Mar 20, 2012 21:47:25 GMT -5 Mutant Couch said:

I hate JR. He's irritating and sloppy. Plus, his BBQ sauce sucks. Which in my opinion makes him a bad person.

Eating JR's sauce is on my bucket list