10 Spine-Chilling WWE Calls You'll Never Forget

Have you ever tried to watch Alfred Hitchcock's Pyscho without the score? Of course you haven't. Everyone knows Bernard Herrmann's chilling music playing during the film's climactic scene is exactly what makes it so frightening.

Well, it's the same deal when it comes to wrestling and commentary. You can still enjoy the athletic and technical prowess on display in the ring with the sound turned down, but it doesn't mean as much without a good announcer talking you through what you're watching, pointing out the small details you might have missed, William Regal-style.

And yes: this even includes the perennially maligned Michael Cole. While most of the great calls featured on this list come courtesy of Jim Ross - the wrestling commentator to whom everyone else is and will be (unfairly) compared until the end of time - the current voice of Raw is a sorely undervalued part of the product, and one that would be missed were he not around. Well... maybe.

That said, one does wonder how some of these classic moments would be called if they happened today. Reference to hashtags and Twitter trends can kind of kill the vibe.

Michael Cole, though a perfectly capable announcer, is not JR. He gets reminded of this every time he logs into Twitter. Hell, he gets reminded of it every time he sits down at the Raw commentary desk - and that's just from Corey Graves, let alone the fans behind him.

But that doesn't mean that he hasn't made our spines tingle once or twice. Take, for example, his call at WrestleMania XXX, when Brock Lesnar brought a screeching halt to Undertaker's fabled winning streak after a pair of devastating F-5s.

Here, Cole (or perhaps someone screaming instructions at Cole via his headset) recognised the need for a less is more approach. Just as there are some movie scenes that don't need a soundtrack, this moment didn't need much - if any - commentary.

Accordingly, WWE's leading announcer simply stated, matter-of-factly, "the streak... is over." In any other circumstances, the pregnant I-can't-believe-what-I'm-seeing pause would have perhaps seemed contrived and overly dramatic, but on this occasion you bought that he was stunned to the point of near silence - because the rest of us were as well.