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Post by Fuji's racist salt on Dec 31, 2015 17:35:42 GMT -5
It's not so much talking like a real person, but being believable. For example no one talks like The Ultimate Warrior in real life, but for the 5 mins he is doing a promo you truly believe that Brian Hellwig is the Ultimate Warrior. I think wwe's biggest problem is that no one knows what their character is, and why they are speaking. This is also probably an issue with creative. Take Regins for example. He goes from silent brooding Charater fighting Brock, to a wise cracking jokester fighting Shemus. Why would he drastically change like that? What's his motivation? Brian? Brian? Brian!
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 31, 2015 17:36:36 GMT -5
All of them, except Owens.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Dec 31, 2015 17:36:45 GMT -5
"And you know wut?" -Nikki Bella
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Hank Scorpio
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Post by Paco on Dec 31, 2015 17:37:46 GMT -5
On the main roster?
Everyone not named Kevin Owens.
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Post by Kitty Shamrocks on Dec 31, 2015 17:39:27 GMT -5
Not only is Steph grating and sometimes awkward, but she never sounds sincere about anything she says. Even in interviews at charity events and the like, everything about the way she talks seems programmed in.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 31, 2015 17:56:12 GMT -5
It's not so much talking like a real person, but being believable. For example no one talks like The Ultimate Warrior in real life, but for the 5 mins he is doing a promo you truly believe that Brian Hellwig is the Ultimate Warrior. I think wwe's biggest problem is that no one knows what their character is, and why they are speaking. This is also probably an issue with creative. Take Regins for example. He goes from silent brooding Charater fighting Brock, to a wise cracking jokester fighting Shemus. Why would he drastically change like that? What's his motivation? Brian? Brian? Brian! Apparently Warrior's Middle name was Brian... I have never heard him referred to as that... I've always heard him called Jim or eventually Warrior.
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Juice
El Dandy
Wrong? Oh he can tell ya about being wrong.
I'm the one who raised you from perdition.
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Post by Juice on Dec 31, 2015 18:03:14 GMT -5
I disagree on Owens he sounds like a regular guy cutting a wresting promo in a mirror.
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Dec 31, 2015 18:13:16 GMT -5
Paige is just awful. Everything she says sounds forced. To be fair, I don't think her accent helps. And I say that as an Englishman, but when you've got Barrett with his Northern-ness, Neville's distinctive Geordie accent and Regal's beautiful RP accent, her going "THES ES MAH HAAAARSE" in her Norwich accent is just awful.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 31, 2015 18:17:05 GMT -5
I feel sorry for wrestlers when they have to fill their promos with buzzwords management has obviously instructed them to say.
Some shit like
"In this business, what matters most to the WWE Universe is the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and in this very ring, I will become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and be the best sports-entertainer in the world"
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Dec 31, 2015 18:20:37 GMT -5
I feel sorry for wrestlers when they have to fill their promos with buzzwords management has obviously instructed them to say. Some shit like "In this business, what matters most to the WWE Universe is the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and in this very ring, I will become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and be the best sports-entertainer in the world" No one says this.
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Dec 31, 2015 18:22:44 GMT -5
Summer Rae
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Post by "Gentleman" AJ Powell on Dec 31, 2015 18:32:19 GMT -5
I feel sorry for wrestlers when they have to fill their promos with buzzwords management has obviously instructed them to say. Some shit like "In this business, what matters most to the WWE Universe is the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and in this very ring, I will become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, and be the best sports-entertainer in the world" No one says this. Hey man, don't let the facts get in the way of a good anti-WWE schpiel!
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 31, 2015 18:35:03 GMT -5
Hey man, don't let the facts get in the way of a good anti-WWE schpiel! lol They say it all the time. They even say it retrospectively. They've declared Bruno Sammartino to be "one of the all time greatest sports entertainers".
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Post by baracklesnar on Dec 31, 2015 18:37:31 GMT -5
Vickie Guerrero was the dirt-worst. She wouldn't be anywhere near a wrestling show if Eddie wasn't her husband.
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Post by héad.casé on Dec 31, 2015 18:39:46 GMT -5
Well...no adult would insult/trash talk someone by calling them tater tots. I'm not bashing Roman btw. I like him.
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Post by häšhtå.gdālėÿ on Dec 31, 2015 18:42:01 GMT -5
Charlotte is the worst. Sounds like she's reading a script she has absolutely no interest in. So wooden blank and boring.
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 31, 2015 18:56:58 GMT -5
Honestly, the onyl two people on the roster who sound like they're really talking how they would in life are Dean Ambrose and Paul Heyman, but beyond that, it's more a matter of delivery than making me think that you didn't get a script. Cena sounds like he's doing his best PT Barnum impression, but his delivery is so great that it doesn't matter, he could be the second coming of carny. Zeb Colter could probably read a microwave instruction manual and make it sound believable, and honestly it'd probably be less silly than some of his scripted lines. Nothing at all about the New Day is natural, but their delivery of it takes your mind off it the fact that it sounds like someone wrote it (in fact, the most real sounding they've been, after the TLC match, was probably the worst they've sounded.)
On the other end of the spectrum, I don't think there's a diva on the roster that sounds like they've spoken 20 words before entering the ring. ADR has the delivery of an eighth grader in a school play. Ryder is among the worst, because it combined catchphrase speak with bad delivery. But the worst has probably been Jerry Lawler.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Dec 31, 2015 20:19:17 GMT -5
Oh man, I remember Ken Patera was unintentionally hilarious in his verbosity and wooden acting. As a heel, he and Tony Atlas were doing feats of strength and Patera asked Atlas to blow into a hot water bottle until it popped as he had done earlier. Patera said (paraphrasing) "Now you can breathe into this hot water bottle and it will give us the opportunity to see how much hot air YOU have." It didn't help that he ranged from sounding either really mad or really relaxed in the same promos. Superstars of Wrestling, Mean Gene, the "goon squad". Nuff said. I think "natural" is a tricky term. Ryback sounds like an old-school hoss, but he does it well. He sounds like what you expect a meathead to sounds like. Paul Heyman doesn't sound like anyone else in the real world, but I don't expect him to. On the other hand, Daniel Bryan sounds like the consummate everyman, but it makes a lot of his promos forgettable.
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Emmet Russell
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Post by Emmet Russell on Dec 31, 2015 20:41:52 GMT -5
There's very few who come off natural, because the show is so heavily scripted and I can imagine most would be reprimanded if they went off script unless you're Cena or any other top guy.
Take Rollins for example: he's a really good talker, but his material sucked - didn't help he also used the same material to open the show for months, but still, he came off so scripted and phony even though you can tell he has charisma. He was saying words that weren't his. Came off so forced.
The times I've liked Roman the most are when he's able to improvise: his stuff with Vince has been pretty good.
The worst offenders to me, though, are Charlotte (especially) and Paige.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Dec 31, 2015 20:46:50 GMT -5
Eva, the Bellas and Charlotte are just horrible. Charlotte is the daughter of one of the greatest talkers and she just blows any time her mouth opens.
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