Best Selling

[Guest TheGreatWesuke]

Thought of this one today and felt it might make a good topic... best selling by an announcer to get an angle or a match over.

 

My all time favorite is Bobby Heenan during Flair's 1992 Royal Rumble win. CLASSIC.

 

Today I was watching Bash at the Beach where Hogan turns nWo, and I have to give Schiavone credit for doing an awesome job here. I remember watching it live and Tony really sold it well.

 

Jim Ross duing the Mankind-Undertaker Hell in the Cell, all though a little over-dramatic in grand J.R. fashion, was still believeable because well... there was definitely some real emotion there. Especially when Foley went through the cage into the ring.

 

Cole did a great job when Mankind won the world title too.

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I quite enjoyed when Joey Styles unloaded on Eric Bischoff back at One Night Stand. You could tell there was some legit emotion in there.

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Today I was watching Bash at the Beach where Hogan turns nWo, and I have to give Schiavone credit for doing an awesome job here. I remember watching it live and Tony really sold it well.

 

Hulk Hogan.......you can go to hell.

 

Will always be one of, if not THE greatest heel turn in history.

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Ventura against Hogan at WMV.

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The best selling in the HHH/Michaels match from SummerSlam 2002 came from Jim Ross. He was absolutely fantastic. Probably one of the top moments of his career.

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I'll give J.R. another one. I just watched Undertaker vs Jeff Hardy for the Undisputed Championship in a ladder match from 2002. In the closing moments of the match, Jeff just BRAINS Undertaker with a chair, and the place goes nuts. Even JR starts screaming CLIMB THE LADDER KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS! YOU CAN DO IT! ONE MORE STEP! JR really put across the drama of seeing Jeff Hardy almost win the gold, and this was only accentuated by the crowd. Say what you will about Jeff, but he was over as fuck, be it with the teenage girls or not.

 

My favorite oversell by an announcer is still Don West cheering for Amazing Red, during the early TNA days. I love how he stands on the announce table and leads the crowd in a GO RED GO chant!

[Guest TheGreatWesuke]

I'll give J.R. another one. I just watched Undertaker vs Jeff Hardy for the Undisputed Championship in a ladder match from 2002. In the closing moments of the match, Jeff just BRAINS Undertaker with a chair, and the place goes nuts. Even JR starts screaming CLIMB THE LADDER KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS! YOU CAN DO IT! ONE MORE STEP! JR really put across the drama of seeing Jeff Hardy almost win the gold, and this was only accentuated by the crowd. Say what you will about Jeff, but he was over as fuck, be it with the teenage girls or not.

 

That was a good one for sure, I was a Hardy fan early in his career and there was something about that moment that gave me goosebumps. JR's announcing was definitely a big part of that.

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I think JR did a good job during the McMahon/Michaels streetfight after he got all of his bitterness. Begging Michaels to not become what he had come to hate.

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Jim Ross duing the Mankind-Undertaker Hell in the Cell, all though a little over-dramatic in grand J.R. fashion, was still believeable because well... there was definitely some real emotion there. Especially when Foley went through the cage into the ring.

 

That was awesome where he goes "GOOD GOD, GOOD GOD, WILL SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN MATCH"

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In most recent memory, Styles during Taboo Tuesday. Really good stuff.

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“Would somebody stop the damn match! Enough's enough”

 

JR was also on the top of his game calling Ron Simmon's WCW Title win over Vader and Benoit's Wrestlemania World title win.

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I'll give J.R. another one. I just watched Undertaker vs Jeff Hardy for the Undisputed Championship in a ladder match from 2002. In the closing moments of the match, Jeff just BRAINS Undertaker with a chair, and the place goes nuts. Even JR starts screaming CLIMB THE LADDER KID! MAKE YOURSELF FAMOUS! YOU CAN DO IT! ONE MORE STEP! JR really put across the drama of seeing Jeff Hardy almost win the gold, and this was only accentuated by the crowd. Say what you will about Jeff, but he was over as fuck, be it with the teenage girls or not.

 

That was a good one for sure, I was a Hardy fan early in his career and there was something about that moment that gave me goosebumps. JR's announcing was definitely a big part of that.

 

Haws bah gahd had a really good one with the Hogan turn, but for my money, the quoted Hardy one is the best.

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Michael Cole was actually pretty good calling Eddie's title win at No Way Out 2004. His cheering on of Eddie near/at the finish was tremendous.

 

Vince McMahon calling the Austin/Hart Street Fight at WrestleMania 13 was pretty amazing.

[Guest TheGreatWesuke]

I'll give Vince credit for being the master huckster that he is, he would usually bring the goods at pay-per-view time and really get me pumped about matches.

 

Building up Michaels "boy hood dream, etc etc" did a lot for his WM 12 win.

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In the Flair-Steamboat Chi-Town Rumble match, they go outside and are standing between Jim Ross at the announce booth and Dave Meltzer in the front row. Flair gives Steamboat a chop that sounds like a gunshot and J.R. screams "my god you gotta be here to feel that".

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A lot of people give JR a lot of shit, but for my money there's not an announcer out there who's better at simply bringing the emotional intensity and getting the fans truly involved in a match.

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I was screaming for Hardy to win that Taker match, and I despise Jeff Hardy.

 

The entire reason I got so into the match was JR. It was a great match, with a good build-up, but JR sold the whole thing so damn well.

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And "You can go to hell, Hulk Hogan" is one of my favorite quotes ever.

 

Tony was damn good untill he got un-motivated.

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I still think they dropped the ball not giving Hardy an extremely short title reign. After the months of crap he had to put up w/ from the Undertaker, the blowoff had to be more than a "I respect you" handshake.

 

Hardy could have won the title, taken it to SD (since the champion was on both shows at the time), Angle could have destroyed him for the belt since Hardy was hurt. The Vengeance 3-Way (UT, Rock, & Angle) could have been a 4-way. Rock wins and Hardy never comes close to a title reign again.

 

That being said, I am no Jeff Hardy fan.

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THIS IS THE GREATEST NIGHT IN THE HISTORY OF OUR GREAT SPORT!

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I still think they dropped the ball not giving Hardy an extremely short title reign. After the months of crap he had to put up w/ from the Undertaker, the blowoff had to be more than a "I respect you" handshake.

 

Hardy could have won the title, taken it to SD (since the champion was on both shows at the time), Angle could have destroyed an him for the belt since Hardy was hurt. The Vengeance 3-Way (UT, Rock, & Angle) could have been a 4-way. Rock wins and Hardy never comes close to a title reign again.

 

That being said, I am no Jeff Hardy fan.

 

 

That's pretty much what I was trying to say, except much better.

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I haven't seen it in a while, so I don't have any direct quotes or know how well it stands up, but I remember really getting in JR's call of the HHH/Rock ladder match from Summerslam 98. As HHH clipped the ladder with the powder in his eyes and grabbed the belt, JR went ape shit about how he did on one legged and blinded....you'd have thought HHH just beat the entire roster.

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I haven't seen it in a while, so I don't have any direct quotes or know how well it stands up, but I remember really getting in JR's call of the HHH/Rock ladder match from Summerslam 98. As HHH clipped the ladder with the powder in his eyes and grabbed the belt, JR went ape shit about how he did on one legged and blinded....you'd have thought HHH just beat the entire roster.

 

 

The following years were all JR's fault!

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JR from Luger-Flair at WrestleWar 90...

 

"GET BACK IN THE RING....GET BACK IN THE RING!"

 

Classic.

 

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Bobby Heenan anytime the nWo was brought up.

 

When he would jet everytime they came to the announce booth, doing a duke's of hazzard slid across the desk.

 

 

Then he started suppourting them, but would still run.

 

And his hate of Hogan since the 80's was finally justified.

 

"Everything I've said about that man has been true all these years! Admit it Shiavanie!"

 

Awesome stuff

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I always liked JR during TLC matches and the like.

 

"How do you learn to fall on a ladder? You don't."

"People say 'they know how to fall' but how do you learn to fall from a 20 foot ladder?"

"He looks like he's been ejected from a moving vehicle."

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from TLC 1 ...

 

"It looks like a CAR WRECK!" ...his emphasis was PERFECT.

 

his "Don't do it kid, don't do it Jeff!" later in the same match when Jeff dives off the uber-ladder onto Bubba in the aisle was also good.

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ECW Heat Wave '99. Taz is just WASTING Tajiri on the ramp after suplexing him through an angled table, and then Taz goes over to the entrance set (you know, the fake bricks, curtain, chainlink fence...BARBED WIRE...), and pulls some of the barbed wire off of the top of the fence. All Joey says is "go wide...now, GO WIDE..."

 

And the camera go wide...and when they focus on Taz after Tajiri taps, raising his arm in celebration, it's covered in blood.

 

I think that's one hell of a call.

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It's a shame most of us are too young to remember, because Gordon Solie surely should have been brought up somewhere by now.

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And "You can go to hell, Hulk Hogan" is one of my favorite quotes ever.

 

Tony was damn good untill he got un-motivated.

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