British Announcers

[nealo]

with this weeks 'it came from youtube dispalying Tom Cambell's taslents. shhould the E have a new English speaking commentator? maybe Regal should if he quits the GM job

[strykerdarksilence]

I`ve tried play-by-play and colour commentary for the crappy little indy groups I worked for in the UK, and it just doesn`t sound right for some reason!

[nealo]

some of the raspy cockney commentators for LDN and 1pw sound pretty cool i think. which indys have you worked for?

[strykerdarksilence]

Apr 4, 2008 7:47:51 GMT -5 nealo said:

some of the raspy cockney commentators for LDN and 1pw sound pretty cool i think. which indys have you worked for?

The scummiest, most poorly run, practically backyard groups on the south coast of England. New Forest Xtreme was the main one, they thankfully no longer exist, the guy who funded it was a total money mark, didn`t understand wrestling and he is now in jail for massive drug possession.

[Schemer]

Lord Alfred Hayes was the best British announcer.

Regal actually would be pretty entertaining as a color commentator for my money... Better than Coachman... Anyone is better than Coachman though.

[maxx420]

I thought this would be about the Eurosport version of TNA Impact. MAAAAAAAAAAN! That announcing was so shit it was off the charts!
"How can people say this is fake?!"
"This match will be fought in the square ring!" (that'd be the square ring that's actually hexagonal)

[strykerdarksilence]

Apr 4, 2008 13:47:55 GMT -5 @maxx420 said:

I thought this would be about the Eurosport version of TNA Impact. MAAAAAAAAAAN! That announcing was so crap it was off the charts!
"How can people say this is fake?!"
"This match will be fought in the square ring!" (that'd be the square ring that's actually hexagonal)

Don West VS The Eurosport guys in a Microphone on a pole match! Book it, it would be better than their commentating ;D

[maxx420]

Apr 4, 2008 13:58:59 GMT -5 @strykerdarksilence said:

Apr 4, 2008 13:47:55 GMT -5 @maxx420 said:

I thought this would be about the Eurosport version of TNA Impact. MAAAAAAAAAAN! That announcing was so crap it was off the charts!
"How can people say this is fake?!"
"This match will be fought in the square ring!" (that'd be the square ring that's actually hexagonal)

Don West VS The Eurosport guys in a Microphone on a pole match! Book it, it would be better than their commentating ;D

A Triple-Threat REVERSE Microphone on a Pole (hang the mic from the pole to win) match also featuring Mark Madden!
Commentary from Jonathan Coachman & Tony Schiavone who are somehow better than the men featured in the match...

[Robbymac]

"For more information on Coliseum Video RRRRRRRRRReleases, write to Coliseum Video. Post Office Box 1311, Fairfield, New Jersey 07 Double 07"

Yes I watched way too many Coliseum Video's as a kid and have Lord Alfred's speech at the end of each tape memorized.

Why this is relevant here I have no idea, except its the first thing that popped into my head.

[catweazel4life]

Kent Walton, the former wrestling commentator on World of Sport who died on Sunday aged 86, was instantly recognisable from his husky welcome at 4 o'clock each Saturday afternoon: "Greetings, grapple fans."

A smoker who cultivated a mid-Atlantic drawl, Walton hosted the wrestling for all of the 33 years that it appeared, sandwiched between the half-time and full-time football scores; at the end of the allotted time, he would sign off: "Have a good week. . .till next week." When the ITV schedulers finally dropped the sport in 1988, he announced that his lips had been dented by so much time at the microphone.

Walton's understated, factual commentary described wrestlers from George Kidd (his favourite), Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus to the less athletic Big Daddy ("Ea-sy, ea-sy") and Giant Haystacks. Walton hotly refuted allegations that the bouts were fixed, and would put into practice on saloon-bar doubters some of the wrestling moves he had learned. In its televised heyday, wrestling attracted as many as 12 million viewers. They included the Queen, whose interest in the sport was mentioned in Richard Crossman's diaries; and Margaret Thatcher, who asked Big Daddy for six signed photographs, and found him useful for conversation in Africa, where he was a household name. The Duke of Edinburgh was said to be captivated by Johnny Kwango's head-butting technique, and Frank Sinatra told Giant Haystacks that British wrestlers were the best entertainers in the world.

Kent Walton was born Kenneth Walton Beckett on August 22 1917 in Cairo, where his father was minister of finance in the colonial government. Young Kenneth grew up at Haslemere in Surrey and went to Charterhouse, where he excelled at springboard diving.

He went on to the Embassy School of Acting in London and then appeared in rep. On the outbreak of war he joined Bomber Command, and saw action as a radio operator and front-gunner. He also began to modulate his public school accent while mixing with Canadian airmen. After demobilisation, Walton returned to the stage before starting work as a television sports commentator, initially covering football for Rediffusion and tennis at Wimbledon, before his first wrestling commentary from West Ham Baths at 9pm on November 9 1955.

Walton had been given the job despite never having been to a bout, so a couple of days before he went down to the gym with Mick McManus and got him to demonstrate the various holds. Soon Walton had mastered the terminology and even began to make up names for moves himself.

Wrestling became one of ITV sport's earliest successes, something Walton ascribed to the fact that it portrayed men as they wanted to be, and showed women the sort of men they wanted to meet. "I've seen women having orgasms watching wrestlers," he avowed. He later claimed that, of the hundreds of wrestlers he had met, he had disliked only two, on account of their violent natures. Most wrestlers, he said, "really help each other".

Walton combined wrestling commentary with disc jockeying on Radio Luxembourg with the Honey Hit Parade and fronting the first pop programme on British television, Cool For Cats. "Hi," he would say, raising a flat hand in greeting, whilst casually flicking ash from a cigarette in his other. He later hosted another pop programme, Discs A-Go-Go.

He also did voice-overs for commercials and went into partnership with Hazel Adair (the Crossroads writer) in Pyramid Films, which made Virgin Witch (1971), a cheap horror movie in which the cast shed their clothes at the slightest opportunity, and Keep It Up Downstairs (1978), a dire sex farce featuring a bed-hopping aristocratic family.

Kent Walton remained fond of wrestling, but said in 1996: "It's not the same. I don't really go now. It's mostly up North, isn't it?"

He married, in 1949, Lynn Smith. They had a son.

[nealo]

Eurosport TNA is hilarious, why did they feel the need to provide their own commentary? im glad Bravo play it as it is!

[dsriggs]

There was a Pancrease fight on Youtube not so long ago with Jushin Liger (!!!) "featuring" Eurosport commentry.

I now refer to him as Jooshin Leeger from time to time.

[big nasty]

Apr 4, 2008 13:00:56 GMT -5 Schemer said:

Lord Alfred Hayes was the best British announcer.

Regal actually would be pretty entertaining as a color commentator for my money... Better than Coachman... Anyone is better than Coachman though.

more i think about it, a regal/cole team would be awesome. cole going nuts and miscalling moves, regal looking down on him and correcting him in a condescending way. he would be a fine heel commentator, imo.


cole:"what an unorthodox move..!"

regal"thats a side russian legsweep, *quietly*...you miserably curr.."

[nealo]

ah regal commentating JR style "what the bloody hell is this??he's bastard thumped him!!!" haha i think he'll use his original Lanc accent if he does commentate