10 Wrestling Clichés You Can't Ignore
2. "GIMME A F*CKIN' MIC..."
The immortal words of Scott Steiner as he was being given a f*cking mic at the 2002 Survivor Series, and with good reason - the microphone is a weapon both loaded and booby-trapped depending on the person holding it.
It's also - in normal times - a marker that a person's words matter. A debate with friends at the pub isn't dictated by who happens to be mic'ed up all the time, otherwise the old fella that does the quizzes would be the only one making points.
It's something that's somehow endured through the pandemic era, despite the fact that commentators could be heard calling matches in replays during Performance Center tapings. Chris Jericho's aforementioned exchanges with Matt Hardy decided to take a different tact, and oddly more jarring for it.
'LeChampion' sported a headset microphone at one point, and both went without anything for another. The visual difference was jarring, so accustomed as we all are to the now-clichéd sight of a fire-spitting performer requiring the stick to shout. It was, in their defence, an attempt to bring some humanity to the deathly dull new normal we'd all eventually become accustomed to.