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Top 5 Wrestlers Who Are Horrible On The Mic - Part 1
5 THE IRON SHEIK: It was really common to feel confused during an Iron Sheik promo. It was impossible to tell if he was speaking English or Iranian from one interview to the next. Sheik is a legend in the WWE and deservedly so. His problem wasn’t that he had no skill on the mic, but his problem was that he couldn’t speak English proficiently.
Even today, you can watch him shoot on other legends on social media. It’s like he never really left wrestling, and I encourage you all to go watch them as they are hilarious and still very confusing.
4 THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR: Go listen to a Warrior promo and let us know if you understand anything he’s talking about. Warrior’s problem wasn’t the English language like some on this list, his problem was no one understood what he was referencing and he sounded like a lunatic on ***.
He had a great intensity and energy on the mic, but wrestling fans couldn’t wrap their head around the message he was trying to convey. Here’s a fun example of one of his rants: “Now you must deal with the creation of all the unpleasantries in the entire universe as I feel the injection from the Gods above.” Try to make sense of that and get back to us.
3 BATISTA: Batista wasn’t good on the mic when he entered the company and he was just as bad when he left it (twice). Batista lacked skill and passion when he was on the mic. “Bootista,” as fans call him nowadays, is a suitable name for him. He’s boring in the ring and on the mic, and it wouldn’t be surprising if he never returns from the last run he had.
It’s strange that he’s so poor on the mic, especially since he was pretty good in the recent Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
2 ROB VAN DAM: Rob Van Dam is a crowd favorite and one of my personal favorite wrestlers, with his phenomenal acrobatic skill-set and a laid back demeanor. While everyone might love his in-ring work, most can not stand listening to him on the mic. Van Dam sounded like he was presenting a bad oral presentation in his elementary school class.
He never really grasped what it took to succeed on the mic and this is probably the reason he had a short lived career as a top superstar in WWE.
1 JEFF HARDY: He had a different look to him that drew interest from fans and he was also a great high-flying wrestler, which helped him have some success throughout his career.
Problems with substance abuse derailed his career, which is tragic as he was one of the top guys in WWE at one point. The one hit on Jeff was his mic skills, as it was evident he wasn’t very comfortable and even with time and practice, he could never put it all together.