Who Are Your Top Five Favorite Talkers ?

[Zane]

With the passing of both Dusty Rhodes and Roddy Piper within a month of each other, we've lost two of the best mic men of all time. With that in mind, who are your top 5 favorite talkers ?

1. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
3. "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes
4. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin
5. Paul Heyman

Offer explanations if you want to, it doesn't matter. Hell, stretch it out to your favorite 10 if you want to. I know that I could.

[Killian King]

1. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
2. Raven
3. Paul Heyman that includes Paul E. Dangerously
4. "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
5. Mick Foley

[Holden Orson]

1. Jericho
2. Bray Wyatt
2. Rock
4. Dusty Rhodes
5. Paul Heyman
6. Bobby Heenan
7. Roddy Piper
8. Xavier Woods
9. Jake Roberts
10. Jerry Lawler

[Zane]

Six through ten would look something like this, and Heenan really should be higher up because he was brilliant.

6. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
7. The Rock
8. Mick Foley
9. Raven.
10. DDP (not because his mic skills were fabulous, but because they were so emotional).

[Eden Morgan]

1. The Rock
2. Roddy Piper
3. Jericho
4. Triple H
5. Cena

[Holden Orson]

Yeah, Heenan is underrated. The network is climbing him back up my list

[Zane]

Aug 8, 2015 16:59:12 GMT -5 Holden Orson said:

Yeah, Heenan is underrated. The network is climbing him back up my list

Heenan was a fantastic antagonist and made some of of wCw's most unwachable broadcasts tolerable and at times (when he was talking), entertaining. He was a huge reason that the nWo got over so quickly.

[Seito Risa]

Hmmm. Good to see managers getting a little love here.

My top five on the stick, no particular order for these...It is late and my brain still hurts from writing Haiku

Brother Love (Mr. Prichard knew how to work that gimmick and the mic, like a pro)
Ted DiBiase (The Million Dollar Man)
Bray Wyatt (One of the really few WWE creative keeps their damned hands off of when it comes to promos)
Paul DangerHeyman (You can't deny...)
"The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant Always something funny from him

Honorable Mention

Bubba Ray Dudley ( Get the tables! )


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Now, as for the worst mic workers we were forced to endure...

Anything named Bella
"Dubba J" Jeff Jerret
"Big Pappa Pump" Scott Steiner
"The Total Package" Lex Luger (steroids in his tongue?)
Papa Shango (entertaining in the ring...please not on the mic...the goo off Warrior's head was more than enough)
And, much as I enjoyed watching him in my youth..."Hacksaw" Jim Duggan

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA!

Big Poppa Pump was your hookup. You better fuckin' holler if you hear him.

[Zane]

Aug 8, 2015 21:25:24 GMT -5 DrunkenBuzzsaw said:

Whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA!

Big Poppa Pump was your hookup. You better fuckin' holler if you hear him.

Yeah, except his promo's weren't "good" because they flowed, made sense or progressed a story...they were "good" because they were an incoherent, angry and drug confused mess. You just never knew what he was going to say.

Steiner was an entertaining mic worker, but nowhere near the class of any of the greats.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

Never said he was a great. Just pointing out that he's entertaining as fuck.

[Holden Orson]

Sid Vicisious was entertaining as a mic worker.... But he was terrabad.

[DrunkenBuzzsaw]

Aug 8, 2015 23:04:12 GMT -5 Holden Orson said:

Sid Vicisious was entertaining as a mic worker.... But he was terrabad.

Listening to a Sid promo is like reading a Mainy rp

[Seito Risa]

But, you never were really watching Mr. Eudy's promos wondering if this would be the time he got overly worked up and his biceps exploded in a goo splashing catastrophe.

[Seito Risa]

Aug 8, 2015 23:09:58 GMT -5 DrunkenBuzzsaw said:

Aug 8, 2015 23:04:12 GMT -5 Holden Orson said:

Sid Vicisious was entertaining as a mic worker.... But he was terrabad.

Listening to a Sid promo is like reading a Mainy rp

And thus Sid always working better with a bullhorn. Like Col. Rob Parker (just please spare us The Blacktop Bully and Bunkhouse Buck)