The Overused Wrestling Commentary Catchphrase graveyard

[camphor #BLM]

This line from Pushed to the Moon --

May 9, 2020 16:09:43 GMT -5 Pushed to the Moon said:

Pff. You guys ever heard of SENDING A MESSAGE?!?

reminded me how often I used to hear "battling back" in the early 2000s, but it seems like it fell out of favor at some point, and disappeared like a repo man thief in the night.

Ignoring for the moment...

• catchphrases for specific wrestlers (apparently it's quite frequently "Boss Time" when Sasha arrives),
• corporate buzzwords ("WWE Universe!")
• and specific commentator's trademark calls ("Whottamaneuver!") 

Let's make a statement, by put the locker room on notice about sending a message that these WWE commentary "verbal rest holds" are gone but not forgotten..

so..
1.  Battling back  (RIP... mid '00s?)
2.  Making a statement  (still around?)
3.  Putting the locker room on notice  (?)
4.  Sending a message  (retired as many times as Terry Funk?)

Anyone have any others?

[A Platypus Rave]

I haven't heard Cole talk about rolling people onto their belly recently...

but I think he only did that for the Walls of Jericho.

I haven't really watched but is he still talking about hitting people... RIGHT IN THE SKULL

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BIIIIIIIIIIIIG BACK BODY DROP!

[camphor #BLM]

May 9, 2020 16:47:28 GMT -5 @negan said:

BIIIIIIIIIIIIG BACK BODY DROP!

you couldn't use a NORMAL back body drop, you had to give him the...

[Cyno]

I swear I've heard multiple announcers use these lines.

"He got damn near torn in half!"

"I've never seen ANYONE manhandle the Undertaker like that before!"

"Anything can happen in the WWE!"

[fg]

“This guy is getting an education.” (Retired in the early 90s)

“Come on referee. Do your job.” (Also retired in the early 90s)

[crowley1986]

Knocked him off...what the f does that mean Cole

[camphor #BLM]

May 9, 2020 17:07:34 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Knocked him off...what the f does that mean Cole

Tribute to Vince's favorite Robert Conrad commercial?

[Hypnosis]

"Like a car crash!"

"A demolition derby!"

"Business is picking up!"

"What does he/she have in store for us tonight?"

"X's title could be in jeopardy!"

"I was talking with X in the back, and he/she says they're not here to make friends, they're here to win."

"The crowd is on their feet!"

May 9, 2020 17:07:34 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Knocked him off...what the f does that mean Cole

He thinks the ring is a pirate ship?

[A Platypus Rave]

I don't think educated feet has been said in the WWE but that might be more of a JR thing.

[Hypnosis]

May 9, 2020 17:20:09 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

I don't think educated feet has been said in the WWE but that might be more of a JR thing.

Didn't he also call Taker's punches "soupbones" and talked about Big Show's hands being "frying pans"?

[camphor #BLM]

Wow, I've been out of the loop for a while, that's a great list --

May 9, 2020 17:16:25 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

"Like a car crash!"

"A demolition derby!"

"Business is picking up!"

"What does he/she have in store for us tonight?"

"X's title could be in jeopardy!"

"I was talking with X in the back, and he/she says they're not here to make friends, they're here to win."

"The crowd is on their feet!"

May 9, 2020 17:07:34 GMT -5 crowley1986 said:

Knocked him off...what the f does that mean Cole

He thinks the ring is a pirate ship?

"But it's not a pirate ship -- no matter how much you want it to be!" [/old-NXT improv-promo + yacht persona]

May 9, 2020 17:20:09 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

I don't think educated feet has been said in the WWE but that might be more of a JR thing.

I love that one -- did it really get said about people other than RVD?  That's AWESOME if so.  (Oh yeah, I vaguely remember maybe they said it about Tajiri too?)

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May 9, 2020 17:24:21 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

May 9, 2020 17:20:09 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

I don't think educated feet has been said in the WWE but that might be more of a JR thing.

Didn't he also call Taker's punches "soupbones" and talked about Big Show's hands being "frying pans"?

I can vividly remember Big Show's hands being frying pans, bowling balls, and catcher's mitts on various occasions

[sabretooth]

IN. THIS. VERY. RING.

[Bang Bang Bart]

“....Raw rolls on live!”

[malloc]

Foreign object and its lame cousin international object. I thought it was some kind of joke when WCW starting saying international object but it was some over sensitive attempt to be PC when it was not required. I have never heard anybody say for example "I need to remove this international object from your eye"

[A Platypus Rave]

May 9, 2020 17:28:35 GMT -5 @hellstorm said:

May 9, 2020 17:24:21 GMT -5 Hypnosis said:

Didn't he also call Taker's punches "soupbones" and talked about Big Show's hands being "frying pans"?

I can vividly remember Big Show's hands being frying pans, bowling balls, and catcher's mitts on various occasions

Best one of those was cole saying that Mark Henry has... "LIMB LIKE ARMS!"

[camphor #BLM]

May 9, 2020 17:45:24 GMT -5 malloc said:

Foreign object and its lame cousin international object. I thought it was some kind of joke when WCW starting saying international object but it was some OTT attempt to be PC when it was not required. I have never heard anybody say for example "I need to remove this international object from your eye"

I barely believed "international object" when I saw it mentioned in "Death of WCW".  They quite clearly just picked up a thesaurus...but got the wrong meaning of "foreign" 

That'd be like, "Undertaker was declared the winner when Giant Gonzalez was ruled unqualified to be in his present position because of his use of cloroform."  Wait, that definition also works..

[Dub H]

Wolfpack Mentality!

[MWC]

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