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Post by 4real on Feb 11, 2022 16:30:35 GMT -5
Booger Red Boomer Red
Whatever it was.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Feb 11, 2022 16:38:55 GMT -5
Jericho Wanna-bee's. It even spawned a shirt that I saw at the merch stand once (MITB 2012) and never saw again. Also never saw a fan wearing one.
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Post by fg on Feb 11, 2022 16:48:51 GMT -5
Stone Cold trying to get "Creepy Little Bastard" over for Christian....didn't last long until it was (fortunately) aborted. Same with (I believe) Jim Ross trying to get "Big Red Retard" over for Kane....thankfully that one died a quick death. Creepy Little Bastard and CLB absolutely caught on, that followed him around for awhile during his first WWE run. Shit, I’m pretty sure it’s been tongue in cheek referenced in AEW (or the AEWEU I can’t remember) As for the Kane thing, that also lingered around a LONG time. XPac might have been the first to use it, not at all 100% on that, but I’m pretty sure 3/4 of the roster called him that at some point in 2000/2001 Actually, i think it was HHH or Jerry Lawler who first said that. It predated Kane’s first feud with XPac. It silently ended in June 2000. Ironically after the magazine published an interview where Kane said that he’s not retarded.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2022 17:01:52 GMT -5
This shirt was 20 years ahead of its time as far as awful WWE shirts go. I could see them putting something like that out now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2022 19:51:47 GMT -5
Pretty sure BRR for Kane was a Rock invention when Kane started giving the corporation problems during his first title run, Lawler ran with it and used it weekly.
- "Your ass is grass and I'm gonna smoke it!" from X-Pac.
- "Creatures rise up" Jeff Hardy.
- Whenever Vince decided "arse" in an Irish accent was hilarious so had Sheamus use it in every promo for a few months before tiring of it.
It is pretty random what gets over, "you can't see me" is rubbish and 99 times out of 100 would bomb but Cena tried it out at the right time in front of the right crowd and these things just spread, see also "YES!"
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Feb 11, 2022 20:21:19 GMT -5
Anything they gave Benoit, he just was not someone a catchphrase worked with, always sounded forced and lame. I liked his "prove me wrong" catchphrase during his debuting months with the WWF, it fit his character as the best damn technical wrestler. I remember on an episode of Smackdown in late 2001/early 2002 Booker T countered Austin's "what" with "who," but I don't think it was meant to be a regular thing. Also, in WCW didn't someone in the commentary team try to get Chris Benoit over with the moniker "silent, but violent?" Not very threatening to be equated with a phrase that can be used to describe a fart. If only farts were the thing everybody associated Chris Benoit for
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 11, 2022 21:27:20 GMT -5
John Morrison trying and failing to make Mr. Ziggles a thing as a way to mock Dolph Ziggler. He had those weird t-shirts about eating your lunch and I think he had some name for his fans. Were they catchphrases as well or just weird shirts?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 5:02:14 GMT -5
Roman Reigns “I’m not a good guy, I’m not a bad guy, I’m the guy” didn’t last long at all. That line with THAT atmosphere was cold as f***. Roman should've turned heel a lot sooner. Having said that, "*Insert City Here*... Acknowledge Me..." is much better.
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Post by malloc on Feb 12, 2022 5:38:57 GMT -5
Mentioned a million times before - pretty munch anything HHH sez. 'Ass kickers 'destroyer''King of Kings' - Its just fricking lame when you are begging the fans to say "yes you are the top guy HHH, we love your long boring rambling at the start of every RAW, keep telling us why you are so great"
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Post by Andee9001 on Feb 12, 2022 5:47:30 GMT -5
JR for a while tried to get "Who is your daddy?" going as one of his catchphrases
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 12, 2022 6:39:25 GMT -5
John Morrison trying and failing to make Mr. Ziggles a thing as a way to mock Dolph Ziggler. He had those weird t-shirts about eating your lunch and I think he had some name for his fans. Were they catchphrases as well or just weird shirts? Maybe Morrissapians? I think it was monkey related for some reason.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 6:48:10 GMT -5
I always loved Christian's catchphrases in 2005 and early TNA.
"Its like this" "Cause that's how I roll" "If you don't know, NOW YOU KNOW!"
I haven't seen him use them since returning to WWE in 2009 where he was basically a generic "hard working veteran"
Christian has been wasted in the past decade or so. Apart from the ONE MORE MATCH thing. He knocked it out of the park in that heel run.
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Post by mrtuesday on Feb 12, 2022 8:55:55 GMT -5
Mentioned a million times before - pretty munch anything HHH sez. 'Ass kickers 'destroyer''King of Kings' - Its just fricking lame when you are begging the fans to say "yes you are the top guy HHH, we love your long boring rambling at the start of every RAW, keep telling us why you are so great" I get where he was coming from. Flair got that style over with "Limousine riding, jet flying...." and Rock brought it back with "Jabroni beating, pie eating...". HHH made no effort to make it rhyme like Flair and Rock did. Which is probably why it sounded so lame compared to Flair's and Rock's.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 12, 2022 9:19:13 GMT -5
He had those weird t-shirts about eating your lunch and I think he had some name for his fans. Were they catchphrases as well or just weird shirts? Maybe Morrissapians? I think it was monkey related for some reason. JoMo-Sapiens.
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Post by malloc on Feb 12, 2022 10:07:06 GMT -5
Mentioned a million times before - pretty munch anything HHH sez. 'Ass kickers 'destroyer''King of Kings' - Its just fricking lame when you are begging the fans to say "yes you are the top guy HHH, we love your long boring rambling at the start of every RAW, keep telling us why you are so great" I get where he was coming from. Flair got that style over with "Limousine riding, jet flying...." and Rock brought it back with "Jabroni beating, pie eating...". HHH made no effort to make it rhyme like Flair and Rock did. Which is probably why it sounded so lame compared to Flair's and Rock's. Totally, I wouldn't say he lacks charisma and I enjoy his wrestling but there was just always something lacking just that little spark of energy that makes me what to believe it and not just think you are only on top because this is fake and the Rock went Hollywood and Austin has broken neck.
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Post by H-Virus on Feb 12, 2022 10:49:45 GMT -5
Not necessarily a catchphrase, but remember that two week period where R-truth changed his theme song? His music started playing after a match and he said "Naw naw, they've heard that one already, let's give'em something fresh!" I don't even remember how the song went, although I'm pretty positive the phrase "Bout time for me to get crunk" was the opening line. But nobody sang along so they quickly went back to "What's up?"
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Post by Timeless Hayterade on Feb 12, 2022 10:51:58 GMT -5
I remember in early 2004, they tried to have Cena get "Damn Straight" over as the new "Hell Yeah." It didn't work.
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Post by jason1980s on Feb 12, 2022 11:34:06 GMT -5
I always thought the Hogan "n w o ites" sounded cool. But I was only 12-14 at the time.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 12, 2022 11:44:33 GMT -5
John Morrison trying and failing to make Mr. Ziggles a thing as a way to mock Dolph Ziggler. He had those weird t-shirts about eating your lunch and I think he had some name for his fans. Were they catchphrases as well or just weird shirts? I love that the "going to eat your lunch" thing, while not entirely unheard of as a euphemism for beating someone up, was such a weird way of phrasing it that Stephanie McMahon tried to tell him it was the dumbest thing she had heard, but he insisted on wanting it on the shirt, so they let him.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 12, 2022 11:46:54 GMT -5
Not necessarily a catchphrase, but remember that two week period where R-truth changed his theme song? His music started playing after a match and he said "Naw naw, they've heard that one already, let's give'em something fresh!" I don't even remember how the song went, although I'm pretty positive the phrase "Bout time for me to get crunk" was the opening line. But nobody sang along so they quickly went back to "What's up?" (Inter-spliced are commentary soundbites at their absolute oldest and whitest and most WWE-est)
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