What was most embarrassing announcing call EVER

[Guest Steve J. Rogers]

Basically something along the lines of saying something is happening when clearly it is not.

 

I was thinking about this when coming up with a fan-fict I've been thinking about on a wrestler who nearly kills another in a messed-up Super-Suplex spot from the top rope.

 

Basically the guy loses his footing and slips, losing control of his opponent who lands hard on the back of his neck and causes his head to "snap" and he is rendered out and not moving on the canvas.

 

Anyway the thought was that since the move was part of a finishing sequence that the PBP guy would be reading the booking sheet for the match and not seeing whats in the ring but calling the action that should be happening while the crowd is stunned silent and the guys in the truck are screaming "SHUT UP! LOOK IN THE RING! MAN DOWN" in his headset.

 

I had Michael Cole in mind when I thought about that though

 

Steve

[Guest DJ Jeff]

 

When I think about embarrassing announcing calls, I always think about Cole. That guy always seems to talk about something that's not happening in the ring.

[Guest Midnight Express83]

"Benoit is on the top rope going for a swan dive on Jericho at wrestlemania 2000"

 

JR: OH NO! CRIPPLER CROSSFACE BY GOD!

[Guest notJames]

I don't know about ever, but if Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Christian, and Christopher Nowinski were ever in a match together, I think JR would have a stroke.

 

For the sake of the topic, I'd go with Michael Cole giving away the title switch on the preview show of whatever PPV he did it at. (Sorry, I lent my SKeith Guide for the Wrestling Obsessed to Phil Mushnick and I never got it back...)

[Guest Rob Edwards]

It wasn't so much a call of something that wasn't going on but I found Cole getting the rules of the cage match at Unforgiven 2000 wrong and getting embarassed when JR corrected him pretty funny

[Guest DJ Jeff]

It wasn't so much a call of something that wasn't going on but I found Cole getting the rules of the cage match at Unforgiven 2000 wrong and getting embarassed when JR corrected him pretty funny

 

I remember that. Probably the funniest Cole moment I can remember.

[Guest Choken One]

THE WORST was when Cole gave away the winner at WMXV.

[Guest Rob Edwards]

Just had a flashback to the embarrasment that is the usually competent JR in the TLC series, if it wasn't a Dusley he just called a random name and hoped it was right

 

ah well a one in four chance I guess!

[Guest Leena]

Tony Schiavone: "That hay can be very abrasive!". Even Tony had to feel stupid after saying that.

[Guest notJames]

Another Cole great (paraphrasing)

 

Michael Cole: Rey Misterio hit him with the six-nineteen!!!

 

[awkward pause]

 

Tazz: Rey Rey's six-one-nine gets the job done...

 

[another awkward pause]

 

Truly, Tazz must have gotten glaucoma from rolling his eyes on that one.

 

And not for nothing, but why does Cole always have to say that the Brendan Byrne... I mean, Continental Airlines Arena is "under the shadow of New York City"? That's just smacks of geographical elitism and I for one am appalled.

 

Jersey Represent!!!

 

[Guest Quik]

JERSEY UP IN THE HIZ-OUSE!

[Guest evilhomer]

I don't know about ever, but if Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Christian, and Christopher Nowinski were ever in a match together, I think JR would have a stroke.

 

 

None really spring to mind, so I'll just go with the generic drop kick/punch clearly misses by multiple feet and the announcers still sell it like the wrestler was hit by a truck.

[Guest Mulatto Heat]

How can we forget the infamous "This handicap match has turned into a two-on-one affair!"

 

I didn't know handicap matches were anything BUT those, Mr. Cole.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Schiavone mis-spoke, turning "backbreaker" into "breckbreaker" during a Jericho/Juvi match in WCW (I think it was Juvi). He compounded that by calling a choke by Jericho roughly 1.5 seconds before it happened.

 

MY brother and I were watching it on tape, and had to rewind after both occurrences because we were like, "Did he just say that?", followed by both of us laughing our asses off.

[Guest The Notorious CRD]

I always find it sad when announcers aren't up on the names of some of the new holds or moves wrestlers use. JR used to be a lot better about this than he is now.

[Guest Nater]

Anything Lawler says, but apparently the man has no soul to lose.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

"He must be fifty, Sixty, SEVENTY FEET UP IN TH' A-YER!!"

 

- JR

[Guest DJ Jeff]

I loved it when Ross and Heyman used to argue over the stupidest things. Damn, that was hilarious.

 

[Guest mach7]

Well, as said whenever JR fucks up a "Chris" and calls him by the wrong last name. He's even done it with Edge & Christian, though. And the Hardyz. Also, he always used to call a double-team elevated neckbreaker by the Dudleys as "The 3d."

 

But, the best one for me.. it's not that significant. But months and months ago, Cole was calling a cage match. And before a commercial, they were showing the cage, and Cole said something to the effect of calling the cage "a twisted MAZE of steel"... it's a cage. A CUBE!! *sighs*

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

THE WORST was when Cole gave away the winner at WMXV.

What? Someone give sepcifics.

[Guest crandamaniac]

THE WORST was when Cole gave away the winner at WMXV.

What? Someone give sepcifics.

WMXV, Rock v.s Austin for the championship. Cole doing his normal shill routine announces that after the show, the Home Shopping Network will have the New world champion on there, thus giving away that Austin would win the match

[Guest FeArHaVoC]

How can you forget about the time Triple H said he was Bi?

[Guest Trivia247]

Another Cole great (paraphrasing)

 

Michael Cole: Rey Misterio hit him with the six-nineteen!!!

 

[awkward pause]

 

Tazz: Rey Rey's six-one-nine gets the job done...

 

[another awkward pause]

 

Truly, Tazz must have gotten glaucoma from rolling his eyes on that one.

 

And not for nothing, but why does Cole always have to say that the Brendan Byrne... I mean, Continental Airlines Arena is "under the shadow of New York City"? That's just smacks of geographical elitism and I for one am appalled.

 

Jersey Represent!!!

 

Cole's commentating is basically the hand me downs of JR. When JR says something "piffy" on RAW. Cole has to Mimic it on Smackdown. Like some people is a PACK OF DOGS! Same thing with the in the Shadow of New York, another JR comment. Cole hasn't come up with a Single Original Comment on his own

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

How can you forget about the time Triple H said he was Bi?

Well, he did sleep with Chyna.

 

(Rimshot!)

[Guest Kotzenjunge]

"And there is that flying leg kick!" -- Color jabroni on the Heroes of Wrestling PPV

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

[Guest Will Scarlet]

I always like how on Nitro a few years ago, Tony would often call out a move a few seconds before it happened.

 

Another favourite of mine had to be one time when the heels were beating down Sting...

Tony: HERE COMES LEX LUGER!

*no one comes out, awkward pause*

Bobby: I guess he got held up in the bathroom or something!

A few seconds later Lex runs out to the ring, and makes the save, but it was obvious that he totally missed his cue for the save.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

"And there is that flying leg kick!" -- Color jabroni on the Heroes of Wrestling PPV

 

Fo sheez,

Kotzenjunge

That was Michael Rosenbaum. I could hear Dutch Mantell roll his eyes.

[Guest Nevermortal]

Remember when RVD got beat by Benoit for the IC belt, and JR said "Chris Benoit cheated to become the Intercontinental Title"

[Guest DJ Jeff]

Remember when RVD got beat by Benoit for the IC belt, and JR said "Chris Benoit cheated to become the Intercontinental Title"

 

I didn't know people could become titles.

[Guest The Tino Standard]

Schiavone's classic "rail of pain" line about the guard rail around the ring is one of my all time favorites.