What a maneuver!

>>18166240 (OP)
Vince was a pretty damn good commentator actually. I appreciate how old timey and corny he sounded, even for the mid 90s.

>>18166240 (OP)
>he's going UP UP UP aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand DOWN!
This is the one thing in his commentary i remember

Will you take a look that!

>>18166240 (OP)
What's so maneuver about it

>>18166240 (OP)
UNBELIEVABLE!

>>18166240 (OP)
Peak Vince
https://youtu.be/yLrVATxErpA?feature=shared

>>18166240 (OP)
ONE! TWO! HE GOT H-NOHEDIDN'T

Vince was a horrible commentator but I love listening to him.

>>18168200
He’s got a good speaking voice, that’s already half of what you need to be a commentator

>>18168172
I used to enjoy "one..TWO--THREE! HE'S GOT HIM! HE'S GOT HIM! HE'S---no."

>>18166240 (OP)
>THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE

>>18168200
You’re crazy. He’s on the Rushmore
Heenan
Vince
Gorilla
JR

vince was a good commentator and i'm tired of pretending he wasn't. who else could call the cartoon world of the wwf with as much over-the-top coked-up enthusiasm as vince? would his style work for ring of honor? of course not, but he was a perfect fit.

Vince was a fucking awful commentator. He got better as the years went on, but watch the Razor/ Shawn Michael WMX ladder match. Vince sounds like someone is stepping on his nuts.

>>18168225
Fucking christ what id give to hear Vince call the undisputed match, or Joe kobashi, or do fixer blood gen, or black Aries title, or steenerico AotF title match, delirious generico, morishima catignoli, low ki kenta, homicide vs.... I dunno. That dog collar match...
Man... it would be great fun and far better than Gabe on commentary

>>18166240 (OP)

>>18166304
Him and David Crockett went to the same school of commentary but they both reacted like it was real, which is mostly missing today.

>>18166240 (OP)
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION

Devastating maneuver!

UN-BE-LIEVABLE

>>18168225
No King?

>>18166240 (OP)
Did people know that Vince was the owner of the company back then? It seems strange that the other comentators would talk to him like a peer, and refer to him by name, but then he became Mr McMahon and gave them orders.

>>18169218
The wrestling magazines would occasionally mention he was owner but most people didn't know. There used to be a clip on youtube where he had the British Bulldogs present him with a giant man of the year award (or something like that) at a MSG show. Crowd had no idea why announcer man was getting it.

>>18169218
Did people know Eric Bischoff was head of WCW before he joined the NWO?

>>18169215
Pre attitude era King is cool but Heenan and Jesse are better and actually provide substance to the broadcast whereas King is just goofing around

>>18169218
No, and even in kayfabe his character was only ever an interviewer or commentator. They started to blur the lines in 97 during Bret's tirade and then after the screwjob went all in.

>>18169218
>>18170471
Everyone knew by the time JR promo’d the fake Razor/Diesel characters which was way before the screwjob

>>18166304
>When he's putting it as far as he can go but even farther

>>18170471
The steroid trials were nightly news you dumbfuck

Was it any worse than the Joey styles/excalibur school of thought where you just yell out the name of the movie? Arguably it’s better cause what a maneuver puts it over as impressive where as yelling “Kawada kicks!” At best tells you someone named Kawada did these kicks once.

>>18168363
It was actually the opposite in the 80s and early 90s he was fine then they got into the "New Generation" era and he got worse because he decided to do more sports entertainment charactery commentary instead of just calling it like a sport. Which you could tell at that point he wanted to be more than just the commentator which is why he let guys start to imply he was the real boss. Pretty sure the itch for him wanting to do more character stuff started when he did the stuff with USWA in '93 which his where "Mr. McMahon" was born.

>>18166240 (OP)
Mt.Rushmore
>Vince
>Heenan
>JR
>King
Vince is a GOAT commentator.Puts over the Talent and the Show.
No current commentator does that today except Booker T.

>>18170471
If you watched USWA in '93 you knew he was the owner. Go look up "McMemphis" he was doing the Mr. McMahon character 4 years before "Bret screwed Bret"

>>18170532
Joey Styles worked because he was a scrawny guy in a suit, so you got with it when he was sounding more and more panicked and excited as he milked a move being setup and then screamed while you watched somebody fucking die
Excalibur is just fucking awful

Vince was a great commentator, his problem was just that he needed to put over his own shit, and during the most memorable time of him commentating his product was terrible. Listen to him on this match with some real top grade guys where he doesn't have to put everyone over and he's great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiYr62_OXaQ

>>18166240 (OP)
Why did Vince decide to stop doing commentary?

>>18166240 (OP)
THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE THATS GOTTA BE KANE

>>18170586
>>18170560
Vince is the best heel of all time https://youtu.be/A3Fw7loEEfk

>>18169896
Apter mags in 1986 had WWF Head Vince declaring himself Walt Disney. Sadly, a lot of WWF fans couldn't read at the time.

>>18168240
I loved Vince as a commentator, in my opinion he should be in all the 2K games as an option, his WrestleMania the Arcade Game calls are iconic.

>>18171465
He didn’t enjoy doing it. Vince always wanted to be a wrestler but his dad told him he was too small. By the time he stopped doing commentary in Attitude Era he was already formulating his character and had some matches.

>>18172150
pretty sure it was public knowledge that he was the guy that owned the WWF since he had full control, you cant really hide the ownership of a corporation like that, but probably not not the average person, if the casual viewer found that the commentary guy was the owner it probably wouldnt bother them al that much, by the time of the steroid trial pretty much everyone knew was the guy
>>18169218
>too small
>Billed Height: 6'2
>was jacked and roided to the point he almost went to prison for it
his dad told him that promoters shouldn't be wrestlers, even though like half of the territories were ran by wrestlers or former wrestlers, what a waste though, he proved that he could be an absolute menace of a heel, possibly the greatest heel ever, sad we never got to his what he would have been like if was ever allowed to

>>18172232
His dad told him that when he was like 20 years old. Vince was a scrawny guy back then. He didn’t get shredded until the 80s. Vince Sr. was just trying to protect his son

>>18172232
>possibly the greatest heel ever
He IS the greatest heel ever, by every metric.

>>18166240 (OP)
GOAT

>>18166240 (OP)
WOAT

>>18166240 (OP)
I imagine he said this while taking a shit on Janel

>>18171915
or they didn't care about jewish ragmags

>>18168212
For me it's
>AAAND FOR THE COVER, ONE, TWOOO AAAAND no he didn't get it
The way he goes from turbo hyped to "meh whatever" in less than a quarter of a second is funny to me

>>18170586
>if you were one of the 5 people who watched dead Memphis, you knew McMan owned the WWF, ergo everyone knew
Are you working heel?

>>18171465
He was switching priorities to the Mr. McMahon character and felt that if he was going to be an on-screen authority, he couldn't kayfabe being just a random lucky tenured employee conveniently calling commentary like he knows what's coming.

>>18166240 (OP)
Kek

>>18174308
"Ref's going for the count!
HE'S GOT IIEEM!
HE'S GOT IIEEM!
No."

kek

>>18166240 (OP)
UNBELIEEEVABLE

>>18166240 (OP)
VINTAGE

GARY STRYDOM!
WOOOWWW!

>>18176002
What's so young about him?

HES GONNA PUKE

>>18166240 (OP)
THE CLOWN IS DOWN

>>18176002
This is really funny because I'm sure the "Young Vince McMahon" part is because everyone has said one of the things that makes Vince nuclear seethe is being called "Junior"

>>18166248
like Heyman he is a good commentator but its a waste of their talent, they should be out there.

>>18166240 (OP)
a single phrase that has mind raped smarks for over 40 years lol