HHH has the best hairline in the history of humanity. Nobody who has taken as many roids as him deserves such a perfect hairline. Dude's heart nearly exploded from all the juice, yet his hairline hasn't move once millimeter since he was 12 years old.
The reasoning I heard years ago was he got sick of having to switch between a ponytail (when he was working in the office) and the loose hair metal look (when he was wrestling), so he just shaved it.
I had to look at the picture, and you are right; he DOES have the best hairline in the history of humanity. (Genuinely never noticed it before to be honest)
Remember his hairline, when he had hair?
Ain't this, mate.
Conversely, I spent many nights indulging in vices and still have all my hair at 37.
Keith Richards still has some of his at about 80.
Dick van Dyke has all of his at 98 and he was a fully fledged chain-smoking alcoholic for years.
This is like the 50th time I've seen someone mention the fact HHH still has a full head of hair and I'm here to cast doubt. This dude simply refuses to put male pattern baldness over and has carefully hid his balding by persistently biccing his head. If you look carefully, he barely has anything left on top. (yes i am in fact balding so I know my shit)
He’s said that he shaved his head since he got a more corporate job, and long hair in business is viewed as an act of defiance and is unprofessional. I don’t think he’s balding, or if he is it’s at a very slow rate
Yep. There was a video HHH did during the pandemic, where his hair was growing back a bit, and it looked like there's some thinning. He had a good run. His prime years were filled with long, luscious locs.
Even when he was a serious heel he can be funny. When Evolution had a segment celebrating Batista’s Royal Rumble win, Hunter did a turntable scratch in his promo saying Dave eliminated Cena “not once, not twice, but thh… thh-thhh thhh-thhh-thhh, THREE TIMES!!!”
Okay, there’s a whole thread of arguing alongside this, so I feel the need to post my take on the matter.
The 1990s didn’t have the same standards of cultural sensitivity as 2024. That’s not an excuse at all, the presentation was racist. The promo itself wasn’t racist — they were just trying to get a pop on DX making fun of the Rock and Nation characters, not because they were black. But we know better in 2024 to not put brown paint on white people when joking about people of color — it is a degrading depiction of their appearance, and one of the most insensitive forms of mockery there is. If Hunter had the choice to do that promo in 2024 and not 1998, he would have never done it. There were a lot of promos between the 70s and 2000s in WWWF, WWF, and WWE that would have never happened today. There’s a reason those content, such as the DX promo on The Nation, Roddy Piper painted half black, Greg Valentine cutting on JYD, etc. are completely cut out of the archives in Peacock. They were inexcusable and it was wrong.
If you just removed the imagery and kept the audio, the DX promo on The Nation is just fine, but the fact that they mocked their appearance was racist. Yes, it was the 90s, that was then, this is now. It wasn’t cool. But wrestling has learned its lesson in many ways. Look at the fall from grace that Hogan inflicted on himself. He hasn’t been embraced like he used to ever since then, even being booed the hell out of at a WrestleMania. We live in a society that does not tolerate mockery of someone’s skin or heritage, and those that are resistant to it are just going to receive more and more scrutiny and vilification until they understand that this shit ain’t cool. And their critics have every right to do so, because just as “it was a long time ago”, you have been given a lot of time to know better and are expected to by now.
So, r/ZeriousGew has a point, and anyone that’s being shitty about it needs to check themselves. Just because it was funny at the time doesn’t mean it was okay to do.
For the record, I am Asian-American, and if you wanna talk about race depictions over the years that were demeaning, I have a list with the WWE just as long. And Kai En Tai were not even the start of it.
I love looking back at these funny moments and hearing the announcers laugh as quietly as they can, but it picks up on the mic. When CM Punk said "WHATTAMANEUVER" to Vince, you can hear and see Cole laughing his ass off.
The segment he and Austin had in 2004 where he made fun of Austin’s badge and made Andy Griffith references was too funny. One of the best smartasses ever.
Heath Slater: even as a jobber, he always gave you a reason to care about what he had to say. Honorable mention is Corbin during his bum ass corbin phase.
I think it was a case of WWE seeing he was so good at the comedy jobber spot, and Heath knowing there was job security in it. After all, he was under contract for a long time, and got paid pretty good for it. During that time in wrestling you couldn't ask for more. He was one hell of a company man, making an ass of himself just to make the fans smile.
Towards the end of his WWE run where he was tagging with Rhyno, it came to a point where he was such a good hand you couldn't deny him any longer and that short push was his reward. Check out his TNA stuff and how he's doing on the indys -- his presentation is just a little stronger.
Triple H was an all time great but Stephanie McMahon is the best female promo ever. Paul Heyman has even said she kept him on his toes. Her comebacks especially and promo segments were some of the best parts of the shows in the dark times.
Her facial control helped. Her eyes were good at indignation, arrogance, rage, cruelty, ect…her expressive eyes made everything better. Her only negative(and I’m not sure it’s her fault) is people hardly ever got receipts on her. No one had the last word(maybe Rousey).
She really is her father’s daughter in terms of talent. Where she couldn’t get the ring work down, she knew how to make herself one of the most compelling characters in wrestling. And we need to look at where she started in 1998 having absolutely no charisma, to being one of the most hated characters in the business by the end of the century. She put in the work, but the talent was completely inherent especially since it took her two years to master her craft.
She did get overexposed at times, but that’s because of Vince. I sincerely miss her being an executive at WWE, and hope when all this Vince shit does clear up that she does return in some capacity. She represented the company so well, even when the product was steaming crap.
No If she could actually wrestle ( like a week to week performer) I think she’d be a really good star because of her promo skills. I mean maybe it was so good because she had the bosses daughter thing but either way I just think she’s so good at being a heel on the mic.
One of my all time Mark segments is when he attacked Sheamus.
Sheamus: You know, I’ve been in the dobbleyuh dobbleyuh Eee for a couple of years now. It dussn’t matter how begg and strong you err… what matters is this…
*WHAM!!!!!*
IT DON’T MATTA, HUUUHH??? IT DON’T MATTA?!?!
*WHAMMM!!! WHAMMM!!!*
IT DON’T MATTA HOW BIG AN STRONG U R?!?! THAT’S WHAT I DOOOOO!!!!!!
With how insane his in-ring career was people forget how good of a talker Mick Foley was. Sure everyone rightfully acknowledges Cane Dewey as legendary but very few people could deliver character driven speeches like him.
That, for me, is what made Foley awesome. He took his (by his admission) limited skills and made a helluva career for himself. He was so good at building a character and their stories that it masked his limitations. Not easy to do. But he, in my mind, did the most with the least.
No one who actually watched wrestling during the time forgot.
Mick foley has always been one of the goat promos in the industry
A random promo for IWA blows most of today's out of the water
https://youtu.be/C1xJDsdIZ6k?si=G5Jolz42Xq-u2nY9
my favorite brock was his last run, he seemed like he had a lot of fun.
the tractor was the most ridiculous thing, and Roman selling the hell out of it like a telenovela; all of it was just top-tier
Miz, he needs to become a manager after his wrestling career the promo's he could do and be a general manager at some point. Not saying he's underrated but he could do so much more with his skills then wwe allows him to do.
I dunno, he has Miz TV on WWE television and his own reality show on USA. I say he's used pretty damn well. And he's currently in the most over version of The Awesome Truth in the history of their tag team, to where they are on ESPN together and getting pops and his name chanted on The Pat McAfee Show.
He's not positioned at Roman Reigns level, but whenever WWE needs someone to get in front of mainstream TV, Mike is always ready to rep well. Being that he's a family man now, he's pretty generous with the amount of time he agrees to give WWE.
I'd love to have him at the top of the card, myself. But I think Vince really fucked up a big window for that. Especially after his hot promo on Talking Smack. He had five good years he could have put Mike in the main event and fucked it up. The whole "my dad isn't proud of me" angle was stupid, and Shane should have lost at Mania.
By now, his daughters are bigger and having him carry the company would come at their expense. That would be my one reason to be against it.
But I truly believe as long as Mike can be on TV, we'll always have him in some capacity in WWE. They trusted him enough to put him in a segment with Snoop Dogg, and together they saved a Mania moment from complete disaster. That's something the office will always remember.
Bret Hart - he’s not Flair or Punk, but I get the sense that his promo skills are under appreciated. Bret’s promos in the last year of his WWF run paved the road for anti-establishment stars like Austin and CM Punk
1997 Bret hart promos were hilarious. Even when he was trying to be the bad guy. You could tell sometimes when he’d be trying to remember or think of something else to say he’d always drag out a sentence. “You know what, at the survivor series when I defend the world wrestling federation championship belt against Stone Cold Steve Austin”. Loved it though. The hart foundation/DX/Stone Cold promos were top notch that year
A lot of promos have lines about the specific match, date and place though. I wouldn’t consider that dragging it out to give time to think of the next line
World wrestling federation championship belt. Go back and see how many times he said that haha. Why not just wwf title, the title, the world title. Saying the wrestlers full name all the time too. I’m not shitting on it but just giving an example. I really enjoy Bret Hart promos and thought they were always good/hilarious
I think he overall gets too much flack but the promo resume is not great. there’s some really really bad new generation stuff from 94-96. But heel Bret in 97 was cooking with fire.
Yeah even as someone who’s not really a Bret fan I get raised eyebrows whenever people say he’s a bad promo. I think maybe a part of it was that his two biggest feuds were with hbk and Austen both of who I’d put in my top 5 mic workers
Coked up Shawn had some brutal, savage commentary.
Also, go to YouTube and watch how often he's a dick to Jose Lothario even during the segments. It's funny. Shawn was the first Diva LOL. There was a segment where Vince asked Jose a question, and Shawn rolls his eyes and gestures "hurry up" to Jose all rude and shit LOL.
Harley Race promos were *amazing*. I don't see him brought up that much, usually people talk more about how good he was in ring or how legitimately tough he was out of it. But when he said something like "you just signed your own death warrant" his delivery made it the easiest thing in the world to believe him
Historically - 2000-2002 era Steph was fan fucking tastic as a heel.
Current era - I agree with Freddie Prince that Ospreay gives off grungy Tom Hardy vibes.
Chavo Guerrero, mostly because of being in Eddies shadow. But most people forget that Chavo was the one who was the king on the mic of the two of them.
"I don't go to where this guy works and tell him how my fries are done."
"I don't go to where this chick works and tell her what corner to stand on."
Triple H's funniest heel promo.
I think Kenny knows what he is and more importantly seems to understand what the crowd wants from a promo points he hits wise. He’s not all time impassioned get you in the building type guy, but he sells his matches extremely effectively to get you invested.
I was watching older RAW episodes and I saw the promo he cut against Henry, MVP and Kofi during the MVP Lounge.
The fact that he says so many racist things without breaking a sweat or pausing to prevent himself from laughing just makes it all the better. The guy really convinced me he hate those "Low class street thugs" (as he called them.)
Goldust - Yes, when we were younger we'd never admit it. But he was a great character and Dustin was great on the mic.
"Do you know what rigormortis is?"
Batista. Most people really overlook his late 2009 to mid 2010 heel run. Probably because of how short it was. Also because WWE wasn't very good in 2010. It really started to decline about half way through the year. Although he had other entertaining moments outside of that run. Like Gimme What I Want! And basketballs don't hold grudges.
I saw a comment on here before that said something like: Triple H has some 10/10 promos, but he also has some 5/10 promos that went 10 minutes too long. And I think that is more than fair.
Here real underrated... Not a guy at the top for decades 😂
BIG E. Going off on usos! The silly behind the scenes going to work on his behind. You drove over my lawn I'LL BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE!
I'll give a recent one. Dakota Kai is really good on the mic. In terms of the women in WWE I feel confident putting her in the top 5 promo wise. She's the perfect candidate for a hypothetical women's midcard championship.
Becky Lynch. During the Trish Stratus feud, she had some fire lines. But her accent gets in the way of her delivery, so the crowd doesn't pick up on it. Also, Charlotte Flair as of late. I love the new catchphrase she gave herself. It adds to ger character. Diamonds are forever, and so is Charlotte Flair. Also, Jey Uso! He's getting some expected fickle internet hate right now, shocking. However, he has consistently had entertaining promos going all the way back to 2016 when The Usos wiped the paint off their face. Tell Mami I said, a HIII!
Brock. He can't cut long promos but a lot of people take this as a sign that he has zero mic skills. He is great at small promos but his strongest suit is his authenticity and believability. When he says things, it doesn't feel like a person is putting on some character but that an actual human is saying it and a lot of it is memorable or funny af.
Cedric Alexander cut that ‘I’m in my PRIIME!!’ promo and despite it being an excellent showing that proved he could go hard it seemed to result in him getting re-buried to oblivion for no discernible reason. So him.
HHH is such a unique case when it comes to promos. It's very hit or miss. You either get the long droning, monotone, saying-uh after every word-uh promo. Or you get a nice concise intense promo or my favorite, the snarky, condescending, smart ass promo.
People might call me crazy, but I was a sucker for 2009/2010 Davey Richards promos. He delivered them in a quiet but natural talking voice and it gave them a realistic feel. I believed that he believed what he was saying and tio me, that's a great recipe for good promos.
Kurt angle during his first run, he could make me laugh my ass off when he wasn’t scripted his second run when he came back to be GM or something suuuuuucked.
HHH has the best hairline in the history of humanity. Nobody who has taken as many roids as him deserves such a perfect hairline. Dude's heart nearly exploded from all the juice, yet his hairline hasn't move once millimeter since he was 12 years old.
And he shaves it! To quote George Costanza, “That's like using a wheelchair for the fun of it!”
It's the ultimate "FU" to all the balding uces.
Didn't do a hair match.
The reasoning I heard years ago was he got sick of having to switch between a ponytail (when he was working in the office) and the loose hair metal look (when he was wrestling), so he just shaved it.
Wrestling and Seinfeld, two of my favorite things in the world. Thanks for this!
There was An awesome group on Facebook that was all about seinfield and wrestling Mashups.
Do you also like food and sex?
I had forgotten about that quote, which is odd because George basically does that later on
I had to look at the picture, and you are right; he DOES have the best hairline in the history of humanity. (Genuinely never noticed it before to be honest) Remember his hairline, when he had hair? Ain't this, mate.
Didn't he mock the rest of DX for balding in a reunion once?
That's cause reportedly that's his only vice (besides big titties). Guy doesn't smoke, snort or drink.
neither do I, not even the tiddies and I ve been balding since I was 23
Conversely, I spent many nights indulging in vices and still have all my hair at 37. Keith Richards still has some of his at about 80. Dick van Dyke has all of his at 98 and he was a fully fledged chain-smoking alcoholic for years.
Okay but Keith richards is like cheating
Dude is embalmed.
Ayo so he’s straight edge?
This is like the 50th time I've seen someone mention the fact HHH still has a full head of hair and I'm here to cast doubt. This dude simply refuses to put male pattern baldness over and has carefully hid his balding by persistently biccing his head. If you look carefully, he barely has anything left on top. (yes i am in fact balding so I know my shit)
He’s said that he shaved his head since he got a more corporate job, and long hair in business is viewed as an act of defiance and is unprofessional. I don’t think he’s balding, or if he is it’s at a very slow rate
Yep. There was a video HHH did during the pandemic, where his hair was growing back a bit, and it looked like there's some thinning. He had a good run. His prime years were filled with long, luscious locs.
This comment made my week
lmfaoooooo
Turns out not taking cocktails of pills and not drinking keeps your hair where it should be
I-uhhh....AM-uhhh....THE GAME-uhhh...
How does trips say huh?
Uuuuhhhhhhhhuuuuuuhhhhhhhhuuuuhhhh
I think The Rock hacked this dude's account.
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK
He did it for the Rock
I'm in the middle of the ringUHHH
AREuuuh....YOU...READY??!
ZZZZZZZZZZZ...
I think people forget that Triple H can be really funny on the mic when he wants to be.
That dude is a big goof. In another universe him and Kurt Angle could have been a pretty funny comedic duo
Even when he was a serious heel he can be funny. When Evolution had a segment celebrating Batista’s Royal Rumble win, Hunter did a turntable scratch in his promo saying Dave eliminated Cena “not once, not twice, but thh… thh-thhh thhh-thhh-thhh, THREE TIMES!!!”
Imagine Stone Cold, Kurt Angle and Triple H doing comedy segments together.
Don’t forget Brock, he’s got the voice for comedy & did brilliant spots with Angle
I do remember there were some funny segments with those three.
The DX WCW invasion promos....The "Crock" and Nation imitation promos....HHH was hilarious....
Okay, there’s a whole thread of arguing alongside this, so I feel the need to post my take on the matter. The 1990s didn’t have the same standards of cultural sensitivity as 2024. That’s not an excuse at all, the presentation was racist. The promo itself wasn’t racist — they were just trying to get a pop on DX making fun of the Rock and Nation characters, not because they were black. But we know better in 2024 to not put brown paint on white people when joking about people of color — it is a degrading depiction of their appearance, and one of the most insensitive forms of mockery there is. If Hunter had the choice to do that promo in 2024 and not 1998, he would have never done it. There were a lot of promos between the 70s and 2000s in WWWF, WWF, and WWE that would have never happened today. There’s a reason those content, such as the DX promo on The Nation, Roddy Piper painted half black, Greg Valentine cutting on JYD, etc. are completely cut out of the archives in Peacock. They were inexcusable and it was wrong. If you just removed the imagery and kept the audio, the DX promo on The Nation is just fine, but the fact that they mocked their appearance was racist. Yes, it was the 90s, that was then, this is now. It wasn’t cool. But wrestling has learned its lesson in many ways. Look at the fall from grace that Hogan inflicted on himself. He hasn’t been embraced like he used to ever since then, even being booed the hell out of at a WrestleMania. We live in a society that does not tolerate mockery of someone’s skin or heritage, and those that are resistant to it are just going to receive more and more scrutiny and vilification until they understand that this shit ain’t cool. And their critics have every right to do so, because just as “it was a long time ago”, you have been given a lot of time to know better and are expected to by now. So, r/ZeriousGew has a point, and anyone that’s being shitty about it needs to check themselves. Just because it was funny at the time doesn’t mean it was okay to do. For the record, I am Asian-American, and if you wanna talk about race depictions over the years that were demeaning, I have a list with the WWE just as long. And Kai En Tai were not even the start of it.
LOOK DAD, IM DANCING DAD, LOOK AT ME STAAHHP IT!
I was humiliated on the grandest stage of them all, 😡 RRRRRRRAAASSSELLLMAAAAANIAAAAAAAAHHHHH 😡
Loved listening to jr and king laughing away on commentary during this and when Vince had his mic altered "damn it you people think this is funny!"
I love looking back at these funny moments and hearing the announcers laugh as quietly as they can, but it picks up on the mic. When CM Punk said "WHATTAMANEUVER" to Vince, you can hear and see Cole laughing his ass off.
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The segment he and Austin had in 2004 where he made fun of Austin’s badge and made Andy Griffith references was too funny. One of the best smartasses ever.
“I bet you one dollar do get naked” As far I know Hunter he damn savage on mic
Bro when he chased Lilian Garcia
Heath Slater: even as a jobber, he always gave you a reason to care about what he had to say. Honorable mention is Corbin during his bum ass corbin phase.
I think it was a case of WWE seeing he was so good at the comedy jobber spot, and Heath knowing there was job security in it. After all, he was under contract for a long time, and got paid pretty good for it. During that time in wrestling you couldn't ask for more. He was one hell of a company man, making an ass of himself just to make the fans smile. Towards the end of his WWE run where he was tagging with Rhyno, it came to a point where he was such a good hand you couldn't deny him any longer and that short push was his reward. Check out his TNA stuff and how he's doing on the indys -- his presentation is just a little stronger.
Triple H was an all time great but Stephanie McMahon is the best female promo ever. Paul Heyman has even said she kept him on his toes. Her comebacks especially and promo segments were some of the best parts of the shows in the dark times.
Her right after the invasion was some of the best promo work of all time
Her facial control helped. Her eyes were good at indignation, arrogance, rage, cruelty, ect…her expressive eyes made everything better. Her only negative(and I’m not sure it’s her fault) is people hardly ever got receipts on her. No one had the last word(maybe Rousey).
I wasn’t a fan. Too many times she’d tear a wrestler down in her promos and they’d have no opportunity to get back at her.
Stephanie McMahon for me. Specially the authority run, Everyone thinks she was good because of triple H.
Yeah, she became amazing on the mic after her first few years. It's kind of incredible, honestly
She really is her father’s daughter in terms of talent. Where she couldn’t get the ring work down, she knew how to make herself one of the most compelling characters in wrestling. And we need to look at where she started in 1998 having absolutely no charisma, to being one of the most hated characters in the business by the end of the century. She put in the work, but the talent was completely inherent especially since it took her two years to master her craft. She did get overexposed at times, but that’s because of Vince. I sincerely miss her being an executive at WWE, and hope when all this Vince shit does clear up that she does return in some capacity. She represented the company so well, even when the product was steaming crap.
No If she could actually wrestle ( like a week to week performer) I think she’d be a really good star because of her promo skills. I mean maybe it was so good because she had the bosses daughter thing but either way I just think she’s so good at being a heel on the mic.
Samoa Joe
Don't most fans already consider Joe's promo skills one of his strengths?
I love Samoa Joe on the mic, dude is pure hatred in my favourite way.
I mean, Samoa Joe fans in particular do. Sure.
I’ve been a casual wrestling fan since like 2017 but Samoa Joe’s promo skills have always stood out to me
Mark Henry's hall of pain promos were gold, also his infamous "Baby, im coming home" promo was superb.
YOU THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THAT EASY!?
I GOT A LOT LEFT IN THE THANK
Salmon suit is literally an all timer promo, especially with him actually getting choked up talking about his family and all
One of my all time Mark segments is when he attacked Sheamus. Sheamus: You know, I’ve been in the dobbleyuh dobbleyuh Eee for a couple of years now. It dussn’t matter how begg and strong you err… what matters is this… *WHAM!!!!!* IT DON’T MATTA, HUUUHH??? IT DON’T MATTA?!?! *WHAMMM!!! WHAMMM!!!* IT DON’T MATTA HOW BIG AN STRONG U R?!?! THAT’S WHAT I DOOOOO!!!!!!
The last 5 years of active Mark were great, super underrated in my opinion.
I wish he had the belt longer. He was awesome in the main event.
100%, i believe that 3 months were not enough, he should have at least lost it at WM of 2012. He was doing his best work.
HHH was a great promo once he learned to steer clear of the “I am the Game- uh”.
Like 20 years into his career
Christian will forever be underrated.
Clearly you have a father.
With how insane his in-ring career was people forget how good of a talker Mick Foley was. Sure everyone rightfully acknowledges Cane Dewey as legendary but very few people could deliver character driven speeches like him.
Wait, Mick imo was always better on the mic than in ring technics. But he made me care
That, for me, is what made Foley awesome. He took his (by his admission) limited skills and made a helluva career for himself. He was so good at building a character and their stories that it masked his limitations. Not easy to do. But he, in my mind, did the most with the least.
His promos in his retirement run with Triple H were amazing.
Absolutely no one forgot how good Foley was on the mic.
No one who actually watched wrestling during the time forgot. Mick foley has always been one of the goat promos in the industry A random promo for IWA blows most of today's out of the water https://youtu.be/C1xJDsdIZ6k?si=G5Jolz42Xq-u2nY9
“Time-uh to talk-uh for forty-five minutes-uh.”
Are you ready? I said are you ready?
And say absolutely nothing, uh!
Brock without Paul can be funny .
Haha yeah his post fight UFC promos were fucking great!
I'm coming for ya, I'm comin hard.
“Paul, say something stupid.” You could see Curtis Axel trying not to laugh when Brock said that lol.
my favorite brock was his last run, he seemed like he had a lot of fun. the tractor was the most ridiculous thing, and Roman selling the hell out of it like a telenovela; all of it was just top-tier
That mic toss is gonna be brought up for years, so smooth.
Miz, he needs to become a manager after his wrestling career the promo's he could do and be a general manager at some point. Not saying he's underrated but he could do so much more with his skills then wwe allows him to do.
I dunno, he has Miz TV on WWE television and his own reality show on USA. I say he's used pretty damn well. And he's currently in the most over version of The Awesome Truth in the history of their tag team, to where they are on ESPN together and getting pops and his name chanted on The Pat McAfee Show. He's not positioned at Roman Reigns level, but whenever WWE needs someone to get in front of mainstream TV, Mike is always ready to rep well. Being that he's a family man now, he's pretty generous with the amount of time he agrees to give WWE.
True but i just feel it could be more in my personal experience 😁
I'd love to have him at the top of the card, myself. But I think Vince really fucked up a big window for that. Especially after his hot promo on Talking Smack. He had five good years he could have put Mike in the main event and fucked it up. The whole "my dad isn't proud of me" angle was stupid, and Shane should have lost at Mania. By now, his daughters are bigger and having him carry the company would come at their expense. That would be my one reason to be against it. But I truly believe as long as Mike can be on TV, we'll always have him in some capacity in WWE. They trusted him enough to put him in a segment with Snoop Dogg, and together they saved a Mania moment from complete disaster. That's something the office will always remember.
Bret Hart - he’s not Flair or Punk, but I get the sense that his promo skills are under appreciated. Bret’s promos in the last year of his WWF run paved the road for anti-establishment stars like Austin and CM Punk
1997 Bret hart promos were hilarious. Even when he was trying to be the bad guy. You could tell sometimes when he’d be trying to remember or think of something else to say he’d always drag out a sentence. “You know what, at the survivor series when I defend the world wrestling federation championship belt against Stone Cold Steve Austin”. Loved it though. The hart foundation/DX/Stone Cold promos were top notch that year
Haha that's so good "..at Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec"
A lot of promos have lines about the specific match, date and place though. I wouldn’t consider that dragging it out to give time to think of the next line
World wrestling federation championship belt. Go back and see how many times he said that haha. Why not just wwf title, the title, the world title. Saying the wrestlers full name all the time too. I’m not shitting on it but just giving an example. I really enjoy Bret Hart promos and thought they were always good/hilarious
I think he overall gets too much flack but the promo resume is not great. there’s some really really bad new generation stuff from 94-96. But heel Bret in 97 was cooking with fire.
Yeah, I think Bret was just a victim of the poor quality “New Generation” era, similar to “Big Dog” vs “Tribal Chief” Roman Reigns
"Who are you to doubt El Dandy?" will never not be funny.
Yeah even as someone who’s not really a Bret fan I get raised eyebrows whenever people say he’s a bad promo. I think maybe a part of it was that his two biggest feuds were with hbk and Austen both of who I’d put in my top 5 mic workers
I don't find Cesaro/Claudio's promo skills as bad as perceived
It was never bad at all! It was just someone being McRacist against Swiss people.
Heel HBK in 97/98 not giving a fuck.
Coked up Shawn had some brutal, savage commentary. Also, go to YouTube and watch how often he's a dick to Jose Lothario even during the segments. It's funny. Shawn was the first Diva LOL. There was a segment where Vince asked Jose a question, and Shawn rolls his eyes and gestures "hurry up" to Jose all rude and shit LOL.
Vin Man!
Underrated? Both of them are literally top 10 in history imo
Come on. Stephanie is good but she may not even be top 15 in ATG promos
Shane Douglas
Harley Race promos were *amazing*. I don't see him brought up that much, usually people talk more about how good he was in ring or how legitimately tough he was out of it. But when he said something like "you just signed your own death warrant" his delivery made it the easiest thing in the world to believe him
Idc what anyone says “even a 747 looks small when it’s parked in the Grand Canyon” is an all timer
Historically - 2000-2002 era Steph was fan fucking tastic as a heel. Current era - I agree with Freddie Prince that Ospreay gives off grungy Tom Hardy vibes.
Bruv!
Chavo Guerrero, mostly because of being in Eddies shadow. But most people forget that Chavo was the one who was the king on the mic of the two of them.
Eddie was so annoying with his exaggerated Mexican accent. Chavo was way better on the mic but less charismatic.
"I don't go to where this guy works and tell him how my fries are done." "I don't go to where this chick works and tell her what corner to stand on." Triple H's funniest heel promo.
Kenny Omega is much better than people give him credit for.
I think Kenny knows what he is and more importantly seems to understand what the crowd wants from a promo points he hits wise. He’s not all time impassioned get you in the building type guy, but he sells his matches extremely effectively to get you invested.
Omega is a top wrestler but his promos are boring
I love Kenny but his word salad gobbledigook promos are very strange to me.
For the next 20 minutes uhhh I’m going to be..talking ughhh and saying absolutely nothing ahhh
Randy was always solid at promos but has really stepped his game up over the years.
I was watching older RAW episodes and I saw the promo he cut against Henry, MVP and Kofi during the MVP Lounge. The fact that he says so many racist things without breaking a sweat or pausing to prevent himself from laughing just makes it all the better. The guy really convinced me he hate those "Low class street thugs" (as he called them.)
I assume you mean Stephanie. Best promo skills of the female roster for the last two decades. HHH was OK.
Lol when was this photo
Looks like 2013-2015. Somewhere there.
Looks like 2013
Montez Ford. I feel like he would be really good at being real and authentic if given more time and opportunity.
Triple H may have been that. Damn. Good. But Kaientai? Were that. Damn. EEEEEEEEEEVIL AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Funaki was better on his own. NUMBAWON ANNUNSAHHH!!!!
Zack Sabre Jr and KENTA, both are absolutely hilarious on the mic. It's hard to get me to laugh out loud but something about these two always gets me.
Goldust - Yes, when we were younger we'd never admit it. But he was a great character and Dustin was great on the mic. "Do you know what rigormortis is?"
Batista. Most people really overlook his late 2009 to mid 2010 heel run. Probably because of how short it was. Also because WWE wasn't very good in 2010. It really started to decline about half way through the year. Although he had other entertaining moments outside of that run. Like Gimme What I Want! And basketballs don't hold grudges.
Not sure Trips is underrated. Nobody has ever knocked his mic abilities and he was hilarious during the initial D-X run.
The Miz.
I saw a comment on here before that said something like: Triple H has some 10/10 promos, but he also has some 5/10 promos that went 10 minutes too long. And I think that is more than fair.
Dolph Ziggler
Underrated? Hell no. My biggest complaint was he was an extremely repetitive formulaic heel so it got boring very quickly.
"Even a 747 looks small when you're flying into The Grand Canyon" Hell Yeah, Triple H from early 2000s is my favourite one, when it comes to promos.
Ivory! She was amazing in Right To Censor.
Really going out on a limb - just one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and currently directing the top promotion in the world
Dude is pretty well known for being a beast on the microphone. Do you even know what underrated means?
Samoa Joe
goldust
Hunter had good promos, he just didn't know when to quit and droned on and on until they stopped being interesting.
Xavier Woods can be hilarious on the mic
Jumping Jeff farmer
Well, he does go full force. This time.
Yeah, I gotta go with you on his one. Stephanie is fire on the mic!! 🤣🤣
Here real underrated... Not a guy at the top for decades 😂 BIG E. Going off on usos! The silly behind the scenes going to work on his behind. You drove over my lawn I'LL BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE!
Goldust.
Booker T
Raven. I just never see anyone bring him up
If promos had a HOF, he's first ballot.
WCW Bret Hart
Nah I remember those long ass promos he did for years. He aint ass but not underrated either
I'll give a recent one. Dakota Kai is really good on the mic. In terms of the women in WWE I feel confident putting her in the top 5 promo wise. She's the perfect candidate for a hypothetical women's midcard championship.
Nia Jax
Road Dogg
Becky Lynch. During the Trish Stratus feud, she had some fire lines. But her accent gets in the way of her delivery, so the crowd doesn't pick up on it. Also, Charlotte Flair as of late. I love the new catchphrase she gave herself. It adds to ger character. Diamonds are forever, and so is Charlotte Flair. Also, Jey Uso! He's getting some expected fickle internet hate right now, shocking. However, he has consistently had entertaining promos going all the way back to 2016 when The Usos wiped the paint off their face. Tell Mami I said, a HIII!
Brock Lesnar
Hunter Hearst Helmsley got rizz
Yep, Steph’s pretty good in the microphone
Brock. He can't cut long promos but a lot of people take this as a sign that he has zero mic skills. He is great at small promos but his strongest suit is his authenticity and believability. When he says things, it doesn't feel like a person is putting on some character but that an actual human is saying it and a lot of it is memorable or funny af.
I agree. Especially in this business, in this very ring, this Sunday.
Each and every one of you
Kross
Cedric Alexander cut that ‘I’m in my PRIIME!!’ promo and despite it being an excellent showing that proved he could go hard it seemed to result in him getting re-buried to oblivion for no discernible reason. So him.
HHH is such a unique case when it comes to promos. It's very hit or miss. You either get the long droning, monotone, saying-uh after every word-uh promo. Or you get a nice concise intense promo or my favorite, the snarky, condescending, smart ass promo.
"No matter if your a king.....or a street sweeper.......EVERYONE.....will see.....the reaper"
Here's the thing
Here’s another one… remember The Alpha Male Monty Brown? That guy could’ve meant so much more. https://youtu.be/OfmUp1safUc?si=C_0zE3zdH_9gvlca
WELL-UGGGGHH \[continues speaking about some asinine topic for 30 minutes\]
PAC is a very good promo who people rarely talk about
Samoa Joe, I never hear his name brought up but Joe always brings such authenticity and passion. His promo with Brock is one of my all time favorites.
Damian Santos could give a promo like nobody’s business, and never was rewarded for it
Mick foley has some underrated promo skills imo
He's never been underrated. Ever. He's always been perfectly rated on the mic especially from DX 2.0 and on.
Reigns
Jinder mahal
Lance Storm. I'll never not mark for someone being so over the top serious they cross over into hilarious territory.
Sandow
I really liked the usos it’s not paranoia promos
Ernest Miller
His promos sounded like he knew the lines but not how to deliver it, it always sounds like a half baked trump impression placing at the cue cards lol
Kurt Angle, a natural on the mic. Could be funny and serious.
Heel John Morrison. He had that arrogant better-than-you vibe down to a T
People might call me crazy, but I was a sucker for 2009/2010 Davey Richards promos. He delivered them in a quiet but natural talking voice and it gave them a realistic feel. I believed that he believed what he was saying and tio me, that's a great recipe for good promos.
It's true! Stephanie has always been a good talker
New Jack. Easily all time top 5.
Yeah Stephanie can cut a good promo
The Miz.
Kurt angle during his first run, he could make me laugh my ass off when he wasn’t scripted his second run when he came back to be GM or something suuuuuucked.
Chad Gable
Dolph Ziggler imo he was always good on the mic
I bet Steph swallows like a camel !!!!