35 WTF Moments From WWE Backlash 2016

16. It's Mauro O'Clock

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Yes, it's my least favourite time of writing these SmackDown based articles because I have to pick faults in the saviour of WWE play-by-commentary, Mr Mauro Ranallo's work.

Was it just me or was Mauro having an off night? For me, he wasn't at his usual levels of supreme awesomeness. This has to be a record in terms of the mistakes he made during the course of a single broadcast.

First or all, we have the moment when Mauro called Nikki Bella's new Fireman's Carry Cutter finisher a "Modified Argentine Backbreaker." Of course, as we all know, the Modified Argentine Backbreaker is otherwise known as the Rack Attack and isn't used by Nikki anymore after the surgery on her neck.

Mauro's obviously been reading up on the former longest reigning Divas' Champion of all time and picked up some out of date information. SHAME!

Next, we have the moment where Mauro called the move occurring in the image above a "corner clothesline," even though, as you can quite clearly see, it's a corner dropkick.

This was corrected by JBL which means in the last two SmackDown Live shows Mr John O'Clock himself has had to correct Mauro Ranallo at least once. You know what this means, right? THE END IS NIGH! ARMAGEDDON IS UPON US! RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN!

Then we had the moment that saw Mauro turned into Kim Jong Il from Team America as he started replacing numerous sounds with 'R' - well, it only happened on one occasion but I like to dramatise things up a bit because I'm a sick guy.

Yes, I'm going there, Mauro called Heath Slater the One Man "Brand".

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