20 Best Talkers In Wrestling History

15. Bray Wyatt

And talk about a lunatic of many faces.

It seems that for the longest time fans have been upset with the way WWE treats Bray Wyatt, and not because he’s the best in-ring wrestler, but because he’s one of the most inventive and original voices of his generation, and WWE keep getting in the way of his stories.

From the children’s tv presenter, to the southern gothic poetry, to the Funhouse, which is the best movie WWE ever made, he has a hypnotic, smokey cadence and new thoughts to express and those things are diamond’s in WWE’s rough.

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14. Bobby Heenan

Wrestling managers have provided us with some of the best talkers of all time, which makes sense because that’s what they’re there to do, talk for the guys who can’t, or shouldn’t.

Jim Cornette was amazing, Sensational Sherri was, well, sensational, but few could hold a candle to the weasel, one of the sharpest, quickest minds in pro wrestling history.

Hilarious when he needed to be, diabolical when he needed to be, Heenan was a master of promo mechanics, he’d put over the match, the date, the heel, the face, the story without feeling like a salesman.

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13. Hulk Hogan

Like Cena, Hogan’s star has been dimmed by the sheer wealth of crapola he’s been a part of during his career.

His current persona as the huckster, the bloated ego-driven nonsense of late-stage nWo, the Dungeon of Doom cheeseball tosh, he’s dropped a whole bunch of mic-amplified turds on us over the years, but even then it’s hard to deny that when Hogan got a promo head of steam going, when that Terry boulder rolled down the hill, nothing could stop it and during the golden era you simply couldn’t resist being caught up in his eye-popping, sweat-drenched furore. 

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12. Randy Savage

This is Ricky Steamboat’s cup of coffee in the big time, F**K YEAH Randy Savage, no one talked like him, no one has ever since talked like him.

He was fluent in gravel jazz, he was a demented beat poet and the beat goes on. Did everything that Randy Savage said make sense, no, was it impossible to forget his signature barks and growls, those crazy eyes and unsettling rolling tempo, oh hell yes. 

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11. Chris Jericho

Y2J can do everything on the mic, from dorky comedy, to braggadocious rock’n’rolla, to quiet intensity, to the festival of friendship, to whatever he was with the hat and the spikes on his shoulders, I want to say, if the tyrant from resident evil 2 did cabaret, he made them all work.

That’s because he’s got one of the most lucrative brains in the sport. He’s a catchphrase machine, is brilliant at working the room, and his endless career speaks for itself

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