10 Greatest Wrestling Logic Fails
4. Commentary Hyperbole
Wrestling commentary is a difficult art, unlike the job of the play by play announcer in any other sport. You need a good deal of technical knowledge to call the match in the first place, but your job is more that of a salesman than anything else - you’re putting over the company’s product. Done right, everyone in the ring should benefit from what you’re saying. And you’ve got to do all this with Vince McMahon wittering into your ear via headset.
WWE’s commentary team tends to take this to the extreme, way past the point of parody. The hyperbole is incessant. It can’t just be a good match, it has to be one of the greatest they’ve ever seen. An impressive Royal Rumble performance becomes the most dominant of all time. Spots we’ve seen a dozen times will be spoken of like we’ve never seen someone jump off a ladder before.
It serves a purpose, of course, but it takes away from any kind of real sports feel that still exists in wrestling. If Martin Tyler acted as though every football match he’d seen was the best game ever played, he’d be laughed out of a job.