One MIND-BLOWING Secret From Every Year Of WWE History
40. 1985 - The Famous WWE Commentator You’ve Never Heard Of
While her contributions to wrestling were nowhere near as famous as Mr. T’s nor Cyndi Lauper’s - she was a year away from breaking into the mainstream - Oprah Winfrey once called a couple of WWF matches.
Albeit for a WWF broadcast on the AM Chicago regional talk show.
Oprah was excellent at her day job, mirroring the WWF, funnily enough, by going national in the mid 1980s. She was not quite as good at pro wrestling commentary.
Her stint was mostly spent asking her co-commentator several questions or otherwise inferring what was going on out loud, about which she had little clue. She did grasp that tag wrestlers have an out if they get tired. She also observed that wrestlers secrete sweat in the throes of action. Midway through the broadcast, as the action spilled to the outside and the referee lost control, she wondered aloud if “anything goes” in wrestling. She wasn’t commentating on Dynamite, oddly. She did seem to have a grand old time, at least. Oprah was not educated, seemed lost at every turn, but gave it the old college try.
So Adnan Virk, basically.