Who started personal ring announcements and who has them?

[lucaslawless]

I'm sure this isn't just a AEW/WWE thing but curious to find out who else has personal ring announcements 


I'm not talking about European wrestlers being announced in kilograms or mysterious wrestlers being from parts unknown as those I think are quite broad and can be used for various wrestlers and gimmicks.

You could say each wrestler has a custom introduction, Punk being announced as "The Best In The World" for example but it isnt as personal and neither does the announcer express it in their voice to suit the wrestlers character. Perhaps I'm being picky but here are some examples.

Justin Roberts / Kenny Omega: And NOW, HE has held frankly an unbelievable amount of single titles, HE is a two time Never Overweight, Six Man Tag Team Champion and two time KOD Six Man Tag Team Champion, HE had the longest rain of 346 days as AEW world champion, HE is a PWA top 500 number 1 ranked wrestler, wrestling observer, wrestler of the year and a sports illustrated wrestler of the year while he sometime uses the airport in North CAROLINAAAAAA, his only go to candy bar is always THE Charleston Chew, he's weighing in at two hundred and twenty four pounds to wrestle in his first match tonight IN two hundred and seventy seven days... HE IS KENNY OMEGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Justin Roberts / Orange Cassidy: Approaching the ring from wherever. Weighing whatever..

Samantha Irvin / Chelsea Green: ChElSeEaA GrEeEeEeEeN!!


Who else has them?

[UN PLOMBIER NIGHTMARE #blm]

pretty sure that started in ancient rome

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

Jul 13, 2023 3:18:38 GMT -5 lucaslawless said:

Justin Roberts / Kenny Omega: And NOW, HE has held frankly an unbelievable amount of single titles, HE is a two time Never Overweight, Six Man Tag Team Champion and two time KOD Six Man Tag Team Champion, HE had the longest rain of 346 days as AEW world champion, HE is a PWA top 500 number 1 ranked wrestler, wrestling observer, wrestler of the year and a sports illustrated wrestler of the year while he sometime uses the airport in North CAROLINAAAAAA, his only go to candy bar is always THE Charleston Chew, he's weighing in at two hundred and twenty four pounds to wrestle in his first match tonight IN two hundred and seventy seven days... HE IS KENNY OMEGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I gotta tell ya, even though it was obvious he was always going to be the Bucks mystery partner, being in the crowd the night this happened was….special.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

I suspect that Awesome Kong's "weighing in at NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS" was a major part of popularizing these. Shimmer was absolutely full of them before they were a well known part of the indies, possibly because the taboo on announcing women's weights caused a lot of wrestlers to use the resulting empty space for gimmicks.

[chronocross]

Gary Michael Cappetta used to introduce Sid Vicious as hailing from "Anywhere he darn well pleases".

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Melissa Santos pretty much did this for everyone in LU but it was not just relegated to simply how she would announce but her intereactions.

She would always announce Pentagon with such disdain because he tried to break her arm

Marty is always always an "aw f***" to her voice because she knew this what was coming from the creeper

Alot of the prominent Mexican talent she would let the accent come out when announcing them

She would always have a shoulder shimmy for Catrina

And of course Cage got his FROM THE 559 , THEY CALL HIM CAGE!

And then you got talents from places like Jeremiah being from the last house on the left or Mil being from beyond the grave.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

Joel Gertner’s “Weighing in at a buff, cut, ripped, chiseled and jaaaacked (some ridiculously low cruiserweight)” intro of D-Von Dudley was a good one.

[salz4life]

I know it's WWE... but Samantha Irvin also does a special voice with Ludvig Kaiser. She's excellent, IMO.

[salz4life]

I like how Justin Roberts emphasizes "BASTARD" for PAC...

[DSR]

Jul 13, 2023 11:46:27 GMT -5 salz4life said:

I know it's WWE... but Samantha Irvin also does a special voice with Ludvig Kaiser. She's excellent, IMO.

And Chelsea Greeeeeeeeeeen!