flyonthewall2983 Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 More likely Brooklyn, Manhattan, etc, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted June 4, 2014 Report Share Posted June 4, 2014 I hope someone is billed from Salt Lake, Utah at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakeplastictrees Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Precarious and its variations are used. Â Example: Â Shawn Michaels is an a precarious position on the top rope! Â Gingerly is often used when someone is crotched on the top, sat on the top turnbuckle, hung upside down in the turnbuckle. Example: Â Against his will, Umaga sits gingerly on the ropes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 I wonder how one hangs upside down in the turnbuckle "in a careful or cautious manner". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but why do they always remove "Jr" from a second generation wrestler who has that at the end of their name (Chavo Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, Ted Dibiase, etc)? I cant recall any other wrestling promotion who ever did this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 Supposedly Vince hates the nomenclature Jr. as he himself is one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlittlekitten Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 Words learned from today's browse of PWO, pt 42:  ☑Doxa ☑Nomenclature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 I looked up doxa on dictionary.com - they don't have it..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 ...ah, got it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 Supposedly Vince hates the nomenclature Jr. as he himself is one. Â I've always heard that he's technically not a Jr. because it's Vincent J. McMahon and Vincent K. McMahon. Apparently, the middle initial makes a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye12 Posted July 4, 2015 Report Share Posted July 4, 2015 Â Supposedly Vince hates the nomenclature Jr. as he himself is one. Â I've always heard that he's technically not a Jr. because it's Vincent J. McMahon and Vincent K. McMahon. Apparently, the middle initial makes a difference. Â This is correct. I'm guessing Vince doesn't like Junior because a lot of the boys that worked for his dad called him that as kind of a demeaning way as a nickname (that's how I take it when Piper does it), like they want to feel superior and talk down to him. Others that just call him Vince, Jr in media to clarify would be a different situation as their is no disrespect intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted July 5, 2015 Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 Makes sense, but it did get ridiculous when they brought in Chavo Guerrero Sr, and since Chavo Guerrero Jr was no longer using the "jr", they resorted to calling him "Chavo Classic". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted July 5, 2015 Report Share Posted July 5, 2015 I actually thought "Chavo Classic" was a perfectly fun wrestling way of avoiding calling him a Sr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted July 6, 2015 Report Share Posted July 6, 2015 I actually thought "Chavo Classic" was a perfectly fun wrestling way of avoiding calling him a Sr. Â I agree, like the rib on calling Carlos Colon a "youngster" in the 1994 Rumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topropepodcast Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Looks like a paper copy of the memo from a few years ago hit Reddit today. Â I'll put them in a spoiler box, because there's a ton of them. Â Â Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...TG Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 I saw that too. Some of that should be common sense, announcer 101 stuff - everything under the "Don'ts" and "Do's" sections. But there's a ton of weird Vince shit, like   ...going forward, we never want to use the term "the title is on the line". and  Please do not use the term "Sports Entertainment". Going forward please use "Entertainment" in place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 The funniest part about that memo leaking is that if/when Vince finds out about it his takeaway would be to have the announcers take shots at the internet rather than realizing the vast consensus being people find his company's commentators to be painfully overproduced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Figured I'd bring this back from the dead since I was reminded of this thread looking at WWE's YouTube page. I get wanting to have a nickname/descriptive phrase for everyone that you can put on a shirt or some other merch, but it's hilarious to see them being referred to as such instead of their names. Â What do i mean? Well instead of calling him Dean Ambrose, every mention has to say The Lunatic Fringe instead. Paige becomes The Diva of Tomorrow, Rusev is the Bulgarian Brute, even Nattie becomes (and I swear this is actually how she was named) The Hart Dungeon Graduate. I can only imagine how the near pathological fear of using names comes off to non-fans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Same thing in Bryan's book in the chapter intro parts written by a WWE writer. He's constantly referred to as "the WWE's Yes!Man". All the other nicknames are shoehorned in. Wrestlemania is always referred to by one of its nicknames..."The Show of Shows", "The Grandest Stage of Them All" etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 Same thing in Bryan's book in the chapter intro parts written by a WWE writer. He's constantly referred to as "the WWE's Yes!Man". All the other nicknames are shoehorned in. Wrestlemania is always referred to by one of its nicknames..."The Show of Shows", "The Grandest Stage of Them All" etc. Nothing was more annoying than WrestleMania 25 being called the 25th anniversary. That still irks me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo-Yo's Roomie Posted September 25, 2015 Report Share Posted September 25, 2015 But never The Granddaddy of Them All. Because that would make it sound old. It's okay for everyone who wrestles on it to actually be old though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted January 28, 2016 Report Share Posted January 28, 2016 At the Royal Rumble, during the Owens/Ambrose match, Cole referred to being thrown into the crowd as "being thrown into the WWE Universe" more than once which tells me it's likely a production decree. Â I can't recall hearing him doing that regularly, but it was really weird and I am a bit hung up on it now. It makes it sound like a guy was thrown into a space anomaly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted March 24, 2016 Report Share Posted March 24, 2016 Thought this was a good time to bring this back to life since it's been re-christened The Award-Winning WWE Network and the full name must be used at all times including during promos and video descriptions on YouTube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artDDP Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Michael Cole said "hospital" two weeks in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Six-Man matches are now being referred to as "six-person", even if all the wrestlers in the ring are the same gender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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