Catch Phrase/Professional Wrestling
Examples of Catch Phrases in Professional Wrestling include:
- Wrestling lives for these, and virtually every wrestler has Catch Phrase or two, from Hulk Hogan's "What'cha gonna do?" to Stone Cold Steve Austin's "Gimme a hell yeah!" to The Undertaker's "Rest In Peace!" to John Cena's "You can't see me!" (today used more often in his Entrance Music).
- One of the earliest examples, from a Heel, is "Superstar" Billy Graham's: "I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour!"
- Ric Flair has built up quite a selection throughout his career, from a simple "Wooo!", to "Diamonds are forever... and so is Ric Flair" to "limousine-ridin', jet-flyin', kiss-stealin', wheelin'-dealin' son of a gun" - and of course "To be The Man, you gotta beat The Man!"
- One of the most repeated was Randy "Macho Man" Savage's surprisingly versatile "OOOOOOOHHHH YEAH!"
- The Rock, at one point, had 16-17 Catch Phrases; he would often cut a 5-minute interview consisting entirely of Catch Phrases. In fact, the WWE series SmackDown was derived from one of his trademark phrases, and as such he often referred to the program as "The Rock's Show."
- One of his phrases involved him asking the victim a question, and as they answer he interrupts with, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT/IF..."
- For example (Billy Gun's Prayer) "...then your house is gonna shake, the sky will open and God Himself will say, "BOB!" "But my name's Billy-" "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!"
- One of his phrases involved him asking the victim a question, and as they answer he interrupts with, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT/IF..."
- Raven is well known for ending every interview with "Quote the Raven, nevermore"
- And that's not even his only catchphrase. Other favorites include "so it is written, so it shall come to pass" and "the world is full of kings and queens, who'll blind your eyes and steal your dreams."
- More recently, Ron Simmons returned from Character Limbo to become a fan favorite, complete with merchandise, simply by uttering his old Catch Phrase, 'Damn!', at comically appropriate moments.
- Hi, I'm Dolph Ziggler.
- It's time to play the game!
- EXCUSE ME!!
- Priceless
- My name is Alberto Del Rio but you already know that
- NEVA...EVA...AGAIN!(again pronounced "Uh-GAYNE")
- Will you please... SHUT. THE HELL. UP!!!
- WASSUP!?
- Because I'm the Miz, and I'M.........AWESOME!
- REALLLLY?
- Woo woo woo, you know it!
- Clap it up, bro!
- OHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!
- How can we forget about the universal "After our fight at [insert PPV here] you no longer be [insert name of the championship here]champion anymore]"
- And even the announcers get in on it, which can be traced back to Gordon Solie's frequent comment that a wrestler was "wearing the crimson mask".
- Gorilla Monsoon frequently dealt with some of the more outlandish claims of Jesse Ventura and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan with "Will you stop?"
- Jim Ross's oft-parodied "[someone's] stompin' a mudhole", "[someone's getting beat] like a government mule", matches (or wrestlers) are "bowling-shoe ugly", and a really good, really vicious beating is a "slobberknocker".
- In his UWF days, Ross also shouted, "High elevation!" and "Pinning predicament" with amusing regularity.
- Bah Gawd!
- Joey Styles, meanwhile, has "OH MY GOD!" (or the lucha-related version, "AY DIOS MIO!"), a wrestler "getting introduced" to various hard-hitting objects, and referring to flying wrestlers as "Air _____".
- CAT FIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!
- Jerry Lawler is happy to shout "Puppies!" at the slightest provocation.
- His TNA counterpart, Taz, has "Let the pidgeons loose!" whenever a Knockout (especially The Beautiful Elite) enters the ring.
- Speaking of Taz(z), back in his WWE days, it was "Well, here comes the pain!" Whenever Brock Lesnar's entrance theme played.#
- And because of that, whenever D'Angelo Dinero enters the arena, Tazz gets to say "Welp, here comes the Pope!"
- World Championship Wrestling's Tony Schiavone frequently felt that the particular PPV/Nitro/Thunder/Worldwide/whatever was "the greatest night in the history of our sport". This has occurred more than once a week, leading some to believe that Schiavone has severe memory problems.
- This is not Fair to Flair.
- Given the volatility and cult following of his series of shoot interviews, The Iron Sheik has turned the list, "Suplex 'em, put 'em in the camel clutch, break his back, fuck his ass, and make him humble!" into a catch phrase.
- "Ravishing" Rick Rude: "What I'd like now, is for all you fat, out-of-shape, alliteration based on city to be quiet, while I remove my robe, and show these ladies what a REAL man looks like!"
- When you're nWo, you're nWo 4 Life!
- And you're "Just... 2... Sweeeeeet!"
- It's true, it's true!
- It's real, it's damn real!
- Big Poppa Pump is your hook-up. HOLLA IF YOU HEAR ME!
- Hacksaw Jim Duggan's boisterous HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
- DDP wants you to know that in your next match, YOU WILL FEEL! THE! BANG!
- "Mr. Monday Night" Rob Van Dam will take time in the middle of the match to remind you he's "the whole fuckin'/damn show!"
- Did Eddie Guerrero tell you he didn't have a catchphrase? HE LIED!
- Bill Goldberg would often demand of the camera a simple "WHO'S NEXT?", fitting for a guy who almost never cut a promo.
- There's never a bad time for Booker T to refer to someone as a "sucka", most often when, at the end of a promo, he asks "CAN YOU DIG IT, SUCKAAAAAAAA?!"
- The New Age Outlaws had a catch-SPEECH, spoken at the beginning of most of their matches:
- "Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, D Generation X is proud to present the current/future and (previous reigns)-time TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS OF THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD...THE ROAD DOGG JESSIE JAMES, THE BAD ASS BILLY GUNN, THE NEW! AGE! OUTLAWS!" "And if you ain't down with that, we got TWO WORDS FOR YA!"
- "Ladies and gentlemen, Shawn Michaels has left the building". (a parody of the well known "Elvis has left the building")
- The Mountie "The Mountie always gets his man!"
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