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Post by flakeymcgill on Mar 8, 2020 8:06:56 GMT -5
Her lack of knowledge, preparation or care was laughable. We went from the ring announcer knowing the weight, home-town, name of any accompanying manager or valet to someone who just blurted out whatever random fact she had been bothered to commit to memory.
From
"The following contest is schedule for one fall. Coming down the aisle, with his manager Bobby the Brain Heenan, from Grenoble in the French Alps, weighing-in at 550lbs - Andre The Giant"
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"Viscera" - together with whatever fact she could be bothered to memorise. Sometimes we'd get weight and hometown, other times just the weight, other times just the home down - a lot of the time just the name.
Really struggle to understand why she was tolerated for so long as she was monumentally awful at her job.
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Post by chrom on Mar 8, 2020 8:08:13 GMT -5
She'd also announce the wrong guys as the winners as well
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 8:12:59 GMT -5
I always preferred the ring announcer to have a man's voice.
Presentation wise, it just sounds better.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Mar 8, 2020 8:19:32 GMT -5
For me, nothing beats "Sharp Dressed Match Tuxedo Match" and her immediately going shutting down brainwise afterwards.
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Post by flakeymcgill on Mar 8, 2020 8:26:33 GMT -5
I don't see why a woman can't be a great ring announcer, for me the issue is that she clearly just turned up 40 seconds before the cameras rolled and couldn't even be bothered to read the notes prepared for her.
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Post by crowley1986 on Mar 8, 2020 8:32:32 GMT -5
i was watching the raw's from late summer to about 2001 and she was absolutely dreadful,getting wrong names etc...she didnt start picking it up till 2002..
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 8:51:12 GMT -5
Nice person and I enjoy her Chasing Glory show, but she's easily the worst ring announcer I've ever heard. I also couldn't stand Justin Roberts, but that was due to me not liking his voice and not because of him making constant mistakes like Lillian.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Mar 8, 2020 9:11:53 GMT -5
Grammy Award Winning Usos
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 8, 2020 9:33:45 GMT -5
Somebody hasn't watched Wrestling Society X.
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Post by héad.casé on Mar 8, 2020 9:34:02 GMT -5
I would say the worst I've ever heard her was the night the WCW guys were going to be in a 10 man tag against the WWF guys in Atlanta - the night the ECW guys joined the Alliance. I remember her getting so befuddled trying to announce the WCW guys that she said "Chuck...O'Haire" and just gave up.
I never thought she was bad, had a good authoritative voice, but at times she really did need to prepare better.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2020 10:43:25 GMT -5
No question. Worst ring announcer ever and I don’t think anyone beats her for that crown. She was awful and never improved.
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Post by cornettesracket on Mar 8, 2020 10:56:29 GMT -5
Not the worst but she did have some weird pronunciation of words. They way she said championship where she said the ship part weird was annoying. I think most of the ring announcers were always going to be compared unfavourably to the fink. He's the goat and will never be topped.
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Post by Dub H on Mar 8, 2020 10:58:09 GMT -5
Charlie Haas agrees
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Post by anglarite on Mar 8, 2020 11:01:53 GMT -5
I'd be worse.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Mar 8, 2020 11:03:00 GMT -5
Didn't she say that when she started, she made cards with the guy's weights and hometowns and stuff on them, but of course...Dipshit Dunn and Vince told her not to use them because it looked amateurish. Meanwhile, boxing and MMA announcers use them.
I will never understand Vince and the WWE's thinking.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 8, 2020 12:38:05 GMT -5
Didn't she say that when she started, she made cards with the guy's weights and hometowns and stuff on them, but of course...Dipshit Dunn and Vince told her not to use them because it looked amateurish. Meanwhile, boxing and MMA announcers use them. I will never understand Vince and the WWE's thinking. But they were using those stats for sometime in the Federation years for the ring announcers and even the guest ring announcers on Superstars for a while.
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Post by Hit Girl on Mar 8, 2020 12:41:07 GMT -5
Every ring announcer since Fink has been awful.
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Post by Sad sack ass fruitbooty on Mar 8, 2020 12:43:11 GMT -5
“From Pittsburgh, Philadelphia... Kurt Angle!”
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Mar 8, 2020 12:52:36 GMT -5
Lilian seems like a really nice lady....but yeah, she sucked as a ring announcer.
For the amount of time she did it for, to make the amount of mistakes she did was quite something.
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Mar 8, 2020 13:05:48 GMT -5
Worst in a major promotion for sure. I have no clue how she kept that position for so long, let alone coming back to it again for several more years. I'm not saying I don't understand her employment, I totally do. She's smart, nice, charismatic, everyone liked her. I just dont get why they used her as a ring announcer.
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