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[Televiper]

I finally found my all-time favorite Savage promo:

[bink_winkleman]

Teaching a public speaking course at the local CC that's 4 hours a day for two weeks.  I always have one day set aside for "theatrical speaking" where the students do Shakespearean monologues or stand-up comedy or presidential speeches or something along those lines.  This time around, I'm doing pro wrestling promos.  This thread is a GODSEND, but here's something I'd like to see:  Best Women's Promos.  Are there any other than Guerrero (who will def be in the lesson)?  I'm 30 from Louisiana--grew up on NWA and Mid-South in the 80s, watched tons of WCW and WWF in the 90s, and have been extremely sporadic in watching the last decade.  And for the life of me, I can't think of any good female promos.  It seems like the women are always speaking with their bodies.

Also, FWIW, I'll be categorizing everything--Managers, Comebacks, Challenges, Braggadocio, Arm Candy, Unintelligibles (Warrior, some Macho), Extreme, Turns, etc.--and any help with shaping or definitive examples of categories would be great.

[Rollerball]

you have to put Ahmed Johnson in the unintelligables, he was so much worse than Warrior IMO

[DreamBroken]

bink_winkleman, on May 5 2012, 01:14 AM, said:

Teaching a public speaking course at the local CC that's 4 hours a day for two weeks.  I always have one day set aside for "theatrical speaking" where the students do Shakespearean monologues or stand-up comedy or presidential speeches or something along those lines.  This time around, I'm doing pro wrestling promos.  This thread is a GODSEND, but here's something I'd like to see:  Best Women's Promos.  Are there any other than Guerrero (who will def be in the lesson)?  I'm 30 from Louisiana--grew up on NWA and Mid-South in the 80s, watched tons of WCW and WWF in the 90s, and have been extremely sporadic in watching the last decade.  And for the life of me, I can't think of any good female promos.  It seems like the women are always speaking with their bodies.

Here's some that I loved:

One of my very favorite segments/promos between 2 of the best.


Madison Rayne killing it in my fav promo from TNA last year:


Lexxus in WSU (contains 1 line of foul language)

[Lacelle]

Here are some promos that are pretty alright,

[Fin Follower Ed]

[bink_winkleman]

These are awesome, thanks.  The Johnson will definitely be added.  I knew Luna had some good mic work out there, but had trouble finding any.  Sensational Sheri was someone I completely overlooked.  Looking forward to checking out the Shimmer/indie stuff when I get a chance.

[The Natural]

Posted the following video in The New ROH thread and it deserves to go here as well:

The Natural, on May 3 2012, 02:58 PM, said:

This is the best ever Briscoe Brothers promo:



Fantastic.

[Televiper]

Found another solid gold heel Backlund promo:

Promo starts at the 3:40 mark.

[Stuttsy]

Televiper, on Jan 25 2012, 11:37 AM, said:

I finally found my all-time favorite Savage promo:

Well this is glorious.

[John Cena]

[John Cena]

DreamBroken, on May 5 2012, 09:57 PM, said:

bink_winkleman, on May 5 2012, 01:14 AM, said:

Teaching a public speaking course at the local CC that's 4 hours a day for two weeks.  I always have one day set aside for "theatrical speaking" where the students do Shakespearean monologues or stand-up comedy or presidential speeches or something along those lines.  This time around, I'm doing pro wrestling promos.  This thread is a GODSEND, but here's something I'd like to see:  Best Women's Promos.  Are there any other than Guerrero (who will def be in the lesson)?  I'm 30 from Louisiana--grew up on NWA and Mid-South in the 80s, watched tons of WCW and WWF in the 90s, and have been extremely sporadic in watching the last decade.  And for the life of me, I can't think of any good female promos.  It seems like the women are always speaking with their bodies.

Here's some that I loved:

Madison Rayne killing it in my fav promo from TNA last year:

This is cool, reminded me of Mickie's promos on Trish a few years ago. Great theme song too :)

[TimLivingston]

4:00. It's a minute long. The visual of Flair's face was awesome. Funk retorts, as well.

[ZenDragon]

Macho Man on the Aresino Hall show. He manages to put over himself, hogan, the WWF Title, the Liz angle and promote Wrestlemania.

[Infinit]

This right here is why I am and always will be a Flair mark...of countless legendary promos, this is my favorite.

Flair promo leading to Starrcade match vs Vader

Enjoy...

I

[John Cena]

[JohnAustin]

Take out the Davey Richards part of it (including where he does that stupid point of his), but Kozina's part of the promo was pretty good.  I'd like to see a Kozina/Ricky Morton match now.

[Brandon Bones]

John Cena, on Jun 15 2012, 05:47 PM, said:

That was fantastic.

[J.T.]

Man I hope that Chris Hero can replicate the Young Knockout Kid promos from ROH when Kassius Ohno hits a WWE ring.

[Thomas Bugg]

Infinit, on May 23 2012, 02:57 AM, said:

This right here is why I am and always will be a Flair mark...of countless legendary promos, this is my favorite.

Flair promo leading to Starrcade match vs Vader

Enjoy...

I

I'll copy and paste the comment I made on that video here:

If you had any reservations about buying Starrcade 1993 in the weeks leading up to the show, this was the one promo that convinced you to come up out them dollars!
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