Favorite Promos...

[realist]

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I love great old school wrestling promos so I made this thread:  I have been watching a lot of William Regal lately.  To the shock of no one, the man is a promo master.  Here, he gives a master class of how the art form should be done.  In two minutes, he reflects upon his career, expresses regret, puts over his character, and puts over his opponent as a man who is not to be messed with.  All in two minutes.  Perhaps even more than that is the amazing use of body language and facial expressions.  He goes from a look of reflection, to anger, to happiness, to fear, to acceptance.  William Regal is the man. 

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Terry Funk: Jerry Lawler is the son of a jackass and lover of chickens..

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Paul Heyman's promo against Vince is one of my all time favorites.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn9G3Onwjjg

In just a few moments, at my leisure, I'm gonna call Vince McMahon out to his ring in front of his public on a television show that's owned by his grand company. At least, that is, until this Sunday at Survivor Series. I know how much you people appreciate what Shane and Stephanie and I have done. How Shane and Stephanie and I have stood up to the tyranny of Vince McMahon. And the way it is ladies and gentlemen is quite simple: the World Wrestling Federation will die this Sunday. But don't blame me for that. It's not my fault. I'm not the one who ruined everything that was accomplished by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

You see, at Survivor Series, it means so much more than just the personalities that are involved. It's about ending what Vince McMahon has tried to accomplish. I sat there at that desk on Monday and I listened to Mick Foley, and I agreed with everything Mick Foley had to say; that the WWF truly does suck! Don't boo me! Have you watched the television show lately? Vince McMahon has lost his mind! The man doesn't have it anymore! He's a has-been. His ideas are antiquated. His concepts are Draconian and Mick Foley was right because the WWF is imploding from within. Like every great empire, the WWF is imploding from within.

Vince's loyal employees, like "Stone Cold", left him, like Mick Foley wants nothing to do with him, Vince's own children want him to burn in Hell, and I don't blame 'em. Vince McMahon will see the WWF die this Sunday at Survivor Series and he has no hope to save his precious company. Vince McMahon has the same chances of saving the WWF as he did of realizing his dream of starting a football league!

I want you to know that I was down on my knees because I know you're used to men kissing your ass, Vinnie. Every time you walk in the back, there's Patterson and Brisco, 'Oh, what a great idea you had, Vince!' You like men kissing your ass, don't you, Vince? Because that's what you're all about; a billionaire! The billionaire, Vince McMahon! The creator of sports entertainment! I've waited so long to see you face to face like this. And I've waited so long to tell you to your face that I hate your stinking guts. And it's not just me, it's your children that hate your stinking guts, Vince, and at Survivor Series, your children are going to do to you what I've waited my whole life to see someone do to you, Vince. You are, so help me God, the most disgusting, vile, son of a bitch I've ever seen in my life.

You took Hulk Hogan's blood and you built Titan Towers. You stole Bret Hart's dream, and with that money, bought yourself an airplane with 'WWF' all over it. You did that, and you know it, you son of a bitch! You stole Shawn Michaels' smile, took your company public, and made yourself a billionaire. But not a self-made billionaire, like you like to tell everybody you are, oh no. See, you're a billionaire on other people's hard work. Your father - your father, Vince McMahon - your father went around the country and shook the hand of every... You know I'm telling the truth don't you? You know in your heart that I'm telling you the truth... that your father shook the hand of every promoter in this country and swore to them that he'd never compete against them, that his son would never compete against them.

And when your father DIED, you competed! And with your ruthless, merciless, take-no-prisoners attitude, you drove everybody out of business, didn't you, Vince? You ran all the competition into the ground and you stole all their ideas and you made yourself a billionaire out of it! And you know whose ideas you stole the most, Vince? You stole mine. You see, I don't give a damn about Don Owen and Sam Mushnick and Jim Crockett; I care about what you did to me and my family. How you stole my dreams, how you stole my legacy, how you stole everything that Extreme Championship Wrestling represented.

Because while Doink the Clown had green hair and a rubber nose, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was drinking his first beer in ECW, damn you. While Bobby Heenan and Gene Okerlund were dancing around singing "Tutti Frutti", ECW was producing the edgy TV that you named "Attitude." 'Oh, we've got Attitude!' You've got nothing, man! What you've got is my ideas and you stole my life, my money, my legacy! SCREW YOU! SCREW YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!

I'll tell you something, your own children hate your guts! And on Sunday, your children are going to get even with you, for everything that you stole from me, from everything you stole from them! You flaunt your affairs in front of your wife! You flaunt your affairs in Playboy for your children to read! You bastard! Look at Tazz! Look at Tazz! This man was a killer, he was a machine! He was a wrestler, a great wrestler, a real man. But wrestling is a dirty word to you, isn't it, Vince? Your father built a wrestling company, and you, you had to have sports entertainment. 'We have to have sports entertainment, ha ha ha!'

He was a wrestler, he was a great wrestler, he was a man. And now, he's a fat, little, obnoxious color commentator, and not even a good one! He is a sports entertainer. He is not a wrestler because you made wrestling a dirty word. You made wrestling a dirty word, Vince. What kind of a man are you? What kind of a man takes wrestling and makes it sports entertainment? At Survivor Series, you're going down. You're going down, Vince. I promise you, you're going down, and I'm going to watch it and your children are going to lift their leg, and stand over your grave and we're going to laugh. And you know what else I'm going to do, Vince? I'm going to run your ass out of business. And there's not a damn thing you can do about. I'm feeling good about myself..."

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

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Cheap heat to get the maximum reaction at its best

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Mick Foley's "Cane Dewey" promo

www.wwe.com/classics/mick-foley-recalls-cane-dewey-rant

“More than anyone else in that ECW dressing room, Tommy Dreamer, maybe more than anyone else in the wrestling industry you are willing to pay the price. To sweat, to bleed, to suffer. You’re willing to bear that cross. And I say Tommy, DON’T DO IT! Because in order to sacrifice and bear that cross for them… it means that I’ve got to suffer too. And I’m telling you from a voice of experience that they’re not worth it, Tommy. THEY’RE NOT WORTH IT! You see you got the choice – NOT ME! I made my bed of nails and now I got no other choice but to be powerbombed on it. But you see Tommy, the world is smiling at you. The wrestling business is smiling at you. AND DON’T YOU FROWN BACK ON IT!

I’m going to take you back to a very deciding point in my life – a time when I believed in something. A time when I thought that my face and my name made a difference. Do you remember the night, Tommy Dreamer, because it’s embedded in my skull, it’s embedded in my heart, and it’s embedded in every NIGHTMARE that I will ever have. As Terry Funk took a broken bottle and began slicing and dicing Cactus Jack, the pain was so much that I’ll be honest with you Tommy. The pain was so much that I wanted to say I quit, Terry Funk, I give, I wave the flag, and I’m a coward – please don’t cut me anymore.

Then I saw my saving grace. You see, Tommy, I looked out in that audience, my adoring crowd, and I saw two simple words that changed my life. ‘Cane Dewey.’ Somebody had taken the time and the effort and the thought to make a sign that said, ‘Cane Dewey’ and I saw other people around, as every moment in my life stopped and focused in on that sign and the pain that shot through my body became a distant memory- replaced by the pain that will be embedded in my skull ‘TIL MY DYING DAY! ‘Cane Dewey.’ ‘Cane Dewey.’ Dewey Foley is a three-year-old boy, YOU SICK SONS OF BITCHES!

You ripped out my heart, you took everything I believed in and you flushed it down the damn toilet. You flushed my heart, you flushed my soul, and now it sickens me to sit back and see other people making the same mistake. You see, Tommy Dreamer I’ve gotta to listen to my little boy say every day of my life ‘Daddy, I miss Atlanta,’ and I say, ‘That’s too bad son, because your dad traded in the victorian house for a sweatbox in Long Island. Your Dad traded in a hundred… thousand dollar contract, guaranteed money, insurance, respect and the name on the dotted line of the greatest man in the world – to work for a scumbag who operates out of a little pissant pawn shop in Philadelphia.’

You don’t expect me to be bitter? Tommy, when you open your heart, when you open your soul, AND IT GETS SHIT ON, it tends to make Jack a very mean boy. And so, I’m saying to you – before I take these aggressions out on you – to look at your future and realize that the hardcore life IS A LIE, that these letters behind me are a blatant lie, that those fans who sit there and say ‘He’s Hardcore He’s Hardcore He’s Hardcore’, wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire, you selfish son of a bitch!

But, I want you to understand Tommy though he’s hurt you time and time again, deep in his heart, Raven wants you to understand that the hatred I have in here is not for you. No, no – far removed. You see, Tommy, I’m not doing this because I hate you – I love you, man! I only want the best for you, but when I hear that WCW called up your number and you said, ‘No thank you’ – well, it makes my blood run cold. As cold as that night in the ECW arena.

And so I have got a moral obligation – you see Tommy, I’m on the path of the righteousness and righteous men wield a lot of power. So if I’ve got to drag you BY YOUR FACE to that telephone call and dial collect and say, ‘Hello Eric, it’s me, Cactus, and though I know I’ve burned my bridge, and I’ll never be taken back with open arms – I’ve got a wrestler who would gladly trade in his ECW shirt for a pair of green suspenders.’ And Tommy, just think of that sound in your ear when Uncle Eric says, ‘Welcome home, Tommy Dreamer, welcome home.’ I love being right.”

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

[MrElijah]

Jan 9, 2019 15:18:18 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Terry Funk: Jerry Lawler is the son of a jackass and lover of chickens..

I raise you:



Language Warning/Terry Funk is a Madman Warning

[Tea & Crumpets]

Jan 9, 2019 15:04:35 GMT -5 realist said:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zmenHmjxk&t=3s

I love great old school wrestling promos so I made this thread:  I have been watching a lot of William Regal lately.  To the shock of no one, the man is a promo master.  Here, he gives a master class of how the art form should be done.  In two minutes, he reflects upon his career, expresses regret, puts over his character, and puts over his opponent as a man who is not to be messed with.  All in two minutes.  Perhaps even more than that is the amazing use of body language and facial expressions.  He goes from a look of reflection, to anger, to happiness, to fear, to acceptance.  William Regal is the man. 

You must have read my mind because I came in here to post this. Regal was an absolutely god-tier promo and it's often slept on because he rarely got highlighted doing so. There's this, the Ambrose promo where he's on about them being 2 of a kind and how Ambrose would be all "sweet" if Regal set a man on fire, the Eugene promo on HHH, the Hogan comedy promo...even that one random, super menacing & creepy "William put the hammer down...ahhh..." promo he did on WWE.com that was for no reason I remember. Like you say, in two minutes he could get over himself, his opponent, the upcoming story of the match, and the reason to tune in. A far cry from a 15 minute blathering nothingness, or the annoyingly trendy "I'm going to bury my opponent and run down why they're boring and suck as a performer" promo, which gets over nothing and nobody (I'm looking at you Kevin Owens). So many guys could learn from Regal.

[SmashTV]

Jake’s promo at WMVI. I was so used to shouting and hype from wrestlers in their promos that Jame talking slowly, softly and articulately was completely absorbing. He made you listen to what he had to say, and despite - or maybe because of - the soft voice, it was a promo still laced with menace and intimidation.

I’m unable to post clips, unfortunately, so if somebody would like to do the honours I’d be grateful.

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Seems like the perfect thread to post this database link. Might be of use to some :

www.cagematch.net/?id=93&view=overview

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

6/25/83, Jimmy Snuka empty arena interview, part of the build to the Don Muraco match

Saw it on that one cage match DVD WWE put out

I can't find a clip of it, but Vince McMahon is interviewing him, and Snuka says some incomprehensible stuff (LOOK AT THIS FACE! LOOK AT THIS FOREHEAD!) then starts screaming DON MURACO!!!! and throwing wooden chairs.

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[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jan 10, 2019 3:29:28 GMT -5 SmashTV said:

Jake’s promo at WMVI. I was so used to shouting and hype from wrestlers in their promos that Jame talking slowly, softly and articulately was completely absorbing. He made you listen to what he had to say, and despite - or maybe because of - the soft voice, it was a promo still laced with menace and intimidation.

I’m unable to post clips, unfortunately, so if somebody would like to do the honours I’d be grateful.

"A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice"

[SmashTV]

Jan 10, 2019 10:48:33 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

Jan 10, 2019 3:29:28 GMT -5 SmashTV said:

Jake’s promo at WMVI. I was so used to shouting and hype from wrestlers in their promos that Jame talking slowly, softly and articulately was completely absorbing. He made you listen to what he had to say, and despite - or maybe because of - the soft voice, it was a promo still laced with menace and intimidation.

I’m unable to post clips, unfortunately, so if somebody would like to do the honours I’d be grateful.

"A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice"

Thank you, my friend. This promo never gets old to me.