10 Reasons Conor McGregor Would Become WWE's Franchise Player

10. Untouchable Mic Skills

For all the talk of how WWE’s in-ring action has been “dumbed down” to a cleaner, safer style since the Attitude Era, changes to the way wrestlers speak have been just as stark. Superstars just aren’t as captivating on the microphone as they used to be, and while much of this has to do with WWE’s heavy scripting, we’re not exactly living through a golden age of charisma either.

Aside from Chris Jericho and Paul Heyman, there’s nobody in WWE that can legitimately hold a candle to the all-time greats. Wrestling promos have become flat, sterile, and uninspiring: traits usually associated with MMA fighters, whose primary role isn’t to hold a crowd’s attention on the microphone, but put on a good fight.

Conor McGregor is the exception. He’s not only the best promo in MMA (by a landslide), but if he were to walk into WWE today, there’d only be one or two wrestlers who could legitimately challenge his microphone prowess. When he talks, people listen, and his soundbites and quotables are just as important to his act as his elite fighting skills.

You can’t become WWE’s franchise player if you can’t talk, and nobody talks like Conor McGregor. He’d obviously need to tone the language down, but that shouldn’t be much of a challenge, even if he’d likely have Kevin Dunn & co. pulling their hair out for the first few weeks.