10 Phrases Guaranteed To Anger Most Wrestling Fans
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Wrestling fans tend to be an intense bunch. We're also a fiercely loyal group, and will get behind a performer or a storyline 100 percent - so long as it's entertaining. But if we feel slighted (cough, watching 90 percent of Daniel Bryan's WWE career, cough), we're going to let that distress rise to the surface.
Because, for all the joy this business routinely provides us, it's not easy to forget how incredibly awful wrestling occasionally makes us feel. For every "Hulk slammed Andre" moment there's a "Gobbledy Gooker hatches" moment not too far behind. For every nWo, there's an X-Factor. For every Rock promo that left you clutching your stomach from laughing so hard, there's some long-winded dreck from Lex Luger that left you craving a lobotomy.
Some of these moments are much, much worse than others. Some of them went so far above and beyond the usual, absorbable amounts of unpleasantness that they've remained wedged somewhere deep inside of us.
And though we try our best to block these moments out, sometimes all it takes is a few related words to set us off.
10. "Oh My!"
All right, let's ease into this whole thing with something a bit lighter: Michael Cole's infamous "Oh my."
It's such a simple phrase. Two words. Two syllables. Zero sense of enthusiasm generated. The oft-repeated "Oh my" - or "Oohhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy", depending on how much time he needs to buy until something of value pops into his head - had become a placeholder for "shocking" WWE moments.
Except, this catchphrase of his was too bland to properly capture the weight of any of those moments. Cole's tone-deaf "Oh my" could never stand on its own the way Jim Ross' exacerbated "Oh my gawd!" did, yet he always left it hanging in the air as if that was enough. Like that got the folks at home all jacked up for whatever was about to happen.
Michael Cole has a lot of terrible mantras that he repeats far too often -- "vintage" etc. -- but his stodgily-inflected "Oh my" is actually infuriating in its blandness.
But the worst part about this phrase is that hearing it instantly reminds every fan who suffered through the Anonymous GM angle, or his feud with Jerry Lawler, or his constant insults of the NXT Divas, that Michael Cole is one of the worst commentators of all time. And he still has a job in wrestling.