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Post by "American Cream" Dusty Loads on Feb 7, 2019 18:43:17 GMT -5
When did this start? It's so annoying and sounds vaguely sexual.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2019 18:44:59 GMT -5
I don't know how long WWE's been using it, but they say it all the time in team sports too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2019 18:47:43 GMT -5
Yeah, it's absolutely awful. One of many stupid forced buzzwords that just makes the commentators sound like a bunch of self-loathing robots.
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Post by abjordans on Feb 7, 2019 18:50:41 GMT -5
Knocked off, like “Seth Rollins knocked off Dean Ambrose last week to become #1 contender”? That’s pretty common, I haven’t noticed WWE really forcing that into existence.
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Post by mcstoklasa on Feb 7, 2019 18:52:00 GMT -5
I hate it
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Post by crowley1986 on Feb 7, 2019 19:33:08 GMT -5
Coles being saying it for years...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2019 19:37:25 GMT -5
It's been in sports for decades.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Feb 7, 2019 19:38:19 GMT -5
It's like terms like WWE Universe, I just let it go over my head
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Post by Chiral on Feb 7, 2019 19:39:27 GMT -5
It sounds SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much worse than like "beat" or "won against" and they say it every. Time.
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Post by Fade on Feb 7, 2019 19:40:03 GMT -5
Knocked up??
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Post by Pushed to the Moon on Feb 7, 2019 19:47:22 GMT -5
"Who ever knocked off to the Fabulous Moolah?" - Bret Hart
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2019 19:49:03 GMT -5
It's been in sports for decades. I mean, even granting that it still sounds stupid and clunky. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2019 4:28:23 GMT -5
It’s all Michael Cole. People don’t hold him responsible for shit like this but I don’t remember JR doing it. Or Mauro on NXT.
All those stupid buzzwords are on him and I bet he thinks it makes them “iconic” if he says them enough (ie: VINTAGE, OH MY)
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Post by Rudy Gobert Fingers on Feb 8, 2019 5:24:02 GMT -5
I'm just knocking off in the gym
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Feb 8, 2019 7:26:22 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind it if only Cole said it. Everyone has their own vocabulary. It's the fact that every commentator uses it that drives me nuts.
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Post by cuppacoffee - slight return on Feb 8, 2019 8:03:13 GMT -5
At risk of derailing this, I don’t think “Knocked off” is half as forced or overused as “Wheelhouse.”
They’re all at it. Not just Cole.
I don’t know American sports commentary outside wrestling, but it’s as if some “cool” commentator on a more mainstream sport once said “this is right in x’s wheelhouse!” and everyone on WWE thought “THAT’s a sports commentator phrase right there!”
It is to 2018-19 as “Shoots the half...” was to 2010-12.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Feb 8, 2019 9:59:19 GMT -5
Like, it's fine by itself but it's the fact that Cole says it ALL the time that makes it a killer for me.
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Post by Spider2024 on Feb 8, 2019 10:57:58 GMT -5
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Post by Prince Petty on Feb 8, 2019 11:14:11 GMT -5
I feel like they use it because some half-arsed bit of non-psychology thinking has them worried that saying someone lost, or was beaten, will damage their standing with fans. Most of the time, these forced buzzwords the WWE employs are because they think fans are dumb, or that pro-wrestling is dumb.
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Post by héad.casé on Feb 8, 2019 11:15:13 GMT -5
Tom Phillips says this quite a bit too when recapping a previous match between guys or gals
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