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* The Ultimate Warrior was also famous for this, interspersing feral snarling, grunting, and shouting with long, rambling promos peppered with million-dollar words used almost-correctly. In his later years, he even started throwing in words he made up out of whole cloth, apparently believing his character motivations to be too complex to explain in the English language as it stands. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA3bUTFNtY4 Case in point...]
* Bob Backlund's mid-'90s comeback [[Heel Turn]] was characterized by his speaking with words from the unabridged dictionary; notably, calling the fans "plebians".
* In late 2009, it is Chris Jericho who is noted for using an SAT vocabulary, usually as an insult towards the <s>fans</s> [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] Universe, calling them gelatinous tapeworms, germ incubators, hypocrites, pharisees, among other not so nice things.
* Brian Pillman used to engage in a bit of this. For example, un the promo where Chris Benoit was drafted into the Horsemen, Pillman ranted about how Sting "regaled [his] obsequious lapdogs with [his] reprehensible act."
* Humorously played with in a [[Mad TV]] sketch featuring Bobby Lee as a high school wrestler wrestling a science geek played by...[[
* Gorilla Monsoon was fond of using obscure medical terminology in his play-by-play. A shot to the back of the head would be described as hitting "the external occipital protuberance," while a chair-shot to the back would be said to have damaged "the subscapularis area."
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