The ten greatest one-word promos in pro wrestling.

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Help me out here, guys. I know parts of the list already, for instance:

#2: "DAMN!" (Ron Simmons)
#1: "WHOO!" (Ric Flair!)

And maybe we can jam the half-scrutable syllables that Warrior spews out into one word, maybe something like "Fhqwhgads!!" (apologies to Homestar Runner fans out there). And throw that on the list.

But have there been enough wrestlers synonymous with not just catchprhases, but one-word-promos like I'm talking about here, to fill a "top-ten list"?

Thoughts? (OOooh, maybe that's #5 right there...)

[Baixo Astral]

"Indisputably"

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Thanks for the reminder, I mean, BY GAWD KANG, how could I forget the man with the easy #3 spot,

#3: "No" (Tyson Tomko)

[itsdavephlegmball]

Zombie's in-ring promo on WWECW TV might qualify here. Hard to tell. I thought it was freaking brilliant, and way better than any other WWE or WWECW promo has ever been.

[Baixo Astral]

itsdavephlegmball said:

Zombie's in-ring promo on WWECW TV might qualify here. Hard to tell. I thought it was freaking brilliant, and way better than any other WWE or WWECW promo has ever been.

It contained no words.

[Joe Neglia]

*ahem*

"INDEED"

[Joe Neglia]

oh, and

"Chickenzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!"

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admin said:

oh, and

"Chickenzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!"

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but from where do we get "Chickenzzzzzzzz"? from. And, "Indeed!" was Kaientai's overdub, was it not?

[Joe Neglia]

Chickenzzzzzzzzzzz was Amish Roadkill, he often added it at the end, when his partner Danny Doring was done with a promo.

Indeed was indeed Kaientai.

[Leaving after 1,600]

Chickenzzzzzzzz was Amish Roadkill in ECdub

[shiranui]

Bull Buchanan as B2 (B-Squared, whatever): "BOOYA!"

[Joe Neglia]

Is "Husk" technically a word?

[Thank You Shawn]

PUPPIES!

[shiranui]

admin said:

Is "Husk" technically a word?

Well, I fight Husks all the time in Mass Effect and it's a real word anyway, but I'm not sure about the Berzerker's "HUSS".

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So thus far, I think it's pretty clear I need to add, to my top two, the following:

"No!" - Tyson Tomko
"*mouth moving for five seconds* ... Indeed!" - Kaientai
"Chickens..." - Amish Roadkill
"Huss!" - The Berzerker (and having watched Royal Rumbles V and VI, I have NO excuse for missing this, as Bobby Heenan has beaten in my head about the man who sought to win by countout [via throwing opponents over the top rope] was all about this type of match)

.. still trying to find a cite for B2's "Booya!"

Question though - wasn't it specifically Taka Michinoku who did the "Indeed!" part? Should I credit this one-word promo to the whole team, when I fairly reasonably recall the other half of Kaientai, in fact, going off on long-winded promos featuring many more than 'one' word?

[Joe Neglia]

meanstreetposse said:

So thus far, I think it's pretty clear I need to add, to my top two, the following:

"No!" - Tyson Tomko
"*mouth moving for five seconds* ... Indeed!" - Kaientai
"Chickens..." - Amish Roadkill
"Huss!" - The Berzerker (and having watched Royal Rumbles V and VI, I have NO excuse for missing this, as Bobby Heenan has beaten in my head about the man who sought to win by countout [via throwing opponents over the top rope] was all about this type of match)

.. still trying to find a cite for B2's "Booya!"

Question though - wasn't it specifically Taka Michinoku who did the "Indeed!" part? Should I credit this one-word promo to the whole team, when I fairly reasonably recall the other half of Kaientai, in fact, going off on long-winded promos featuring many more than 'one' word?

Think it was Taka that did the overdubbed long promos, then he'd hand it over to Funaki, who'd only say Indeed. Or vice versa, I don't remember.

Oh, and Yokozuna: "Banzai!"

[Matt Rogers]

admin said:

meanstreetposse said:

So thus far, I think it's pretty clear I need to add, to my top two, the following:

"No!" - Tyson Tomko
"*mouth moving for five seconds* ... Indeed!" - Kaientai
"Chickens..." - Amish Roadkill
"Huss!" - The Berzerker (and having watched Royal Rumbles V and VI, I have NO excuse for missing this, as Bobby Heenan has beaten in my head about the man who sought to win by countout [via throwing opponents over the top rope] was all about this type of match)

.. still trying to find a cite for B2's "Booya!"

Question though - wasn't it specifically Taka Michinoku who did the "Indeed!" part? Should I credit this one-word promo to the whole team, when I fairly reasonably recall the other half of Kaientai, in fact, going off on long-winded promos featuring many more than 'one' word?

Think it was Taka that did the overdubbed long promos, then he'd hand it over to Funaki, who'd only say Indeed. Or vice versa, I don't remember.

Oh, and Yokozuna: "Banzai!"

You are correct, Funaki said Indeed.

[Chainsaw]

thegoldenspike said:

"Indisputably"

Great. Now I have Tomko in my head going "Indoobidibly" like Heckel and Jeckle. Thanks.

[big nasty]

interviewer: any predictions for the fight tonight?

clubber lang: PAIN


not wrestling, but still the greatest one-line promo ever.

[SSP]

meanstreetposse said:

Question though - wasn't it specifically Taka Michinoku who did the "Indeed!" part? Should I credit this one-word promo to the whole team, when I fairly reasonably recall the other half of Kaientai, in fact, going off on long-winded promos featuring many more than 'one' word?

It was Funaki

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPOpZ_8MQUI