10 Wrestlers Who Were Secretly Promo GODS
7. Lance Archer
Paired with a mouthpiece throughout a fitful AEW run, you might think Lance Archer is unable to sell fans on a fight by himself.
It helps his aura but hinders his reputation at promos that the man is a tremendous physical actor with a creative mind for putting himself over as a force of nature. Beating up hapless jobbers on the way to the ring, or smashing ceilings in with the crown of their heads, Archer - when he's even on television - says "everybody dies" after Jake Roberts, remember him, does most of the talking. Archer never needed Roberts, though Roberts was, for a brief time, excellent at putting over the encroaching menace of his new charge.
As an example, watch Archer's promo ahead of a NJPW G1 Climax meeting with vegan wrestler Zack Sabre, Jr.
Zack had poked fun at Archer's catchphrase, but made a hasty exit when confronted by the man himself. Archer, wondering aloud where Archer was going, asked him if he was done "talking all that sh*t".
That's exactly what Zack was going to be when they met in the ring: sh*t.
That is because Archer - in a great promo with a threat that conjured a delightfully revolting mental image - needed his vegetables. He was going to eat ZSJ alive and take a "nice, smooth" sh*t in the middle of thing afterwards.
Very funny, but also really quite intimidating: AEW really should be doing more with the man.