Has there ever been a woman that did regular commentary? I know that female wrestlers have done commentary during the odd match here or there, but has there ever been a woman who was a regular part of the commentary team? I couldn't recall a single one, not even in female-centric things like SHIMMER, the little of Joshi I've seen, the worst season of NXT, et cetera. If there's never been one, is it just there hasn't been any women interested in the job? There are female announcers and backstage interviewers, just struck me as odd that there's never been a single woman doing regular commentary that I've heard of.
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Mike McGuirk! She's on some of the 80s WWF regional stuff. I think she was actually married to Lex Luger for a bit too. She was terrible though . Elizabeth did some commentary in Memphis too.
Who did the Wrestlemania 2 commentary? No joke she uttered the phrase "uh oh" over 100 TIMES. That's NOT an exageration.
ReplyDeleteAllison Danger and Portia Perez does color commentary regularly for Shimmer. In fact, Allison's feud with Portia stemmed from Allison's regular comments in her commentary about how Portia looks like a little girl.
ReplyDeleteDidn't Verne Gagne's daughter do quite a bit of commentary in the final few months of the AWA?
ReplyDeleteLita did commentary on Heat when she was out with her neck injury.
ReplyDeleteTprincess does great commentary!
ReplyDeleteThat would be Kate and Allie's TV star Susan St James. It was a fairly popular show at the time she did WrestleMania, but the more likely explanation of her inclusion was that she was married to NBC executive Dick Ebersol, who had a business/personal relationship with Vince McMahon at the time (he co-produced SNME). Was there supposed to be someone else in her place originally, because she seems pretty disinterested with the whole thing.
ReplyDeleteIt reminds me of when they replaced Roseanne and/or Bob Costas at WrestleMania VII with Marla Maples -- whose claim to fame at that point was having been Donald Trump's longtime mistress, turned wife.
Yep, Lita and Coach. That was pretty rough...
ReplyDeleteYeah, it is kind of ridiculous that there hasn't been a full-time female commentator yet. I highly doubt it has anything to do with a lack of interest -- I think wrestling promoters just see it as a male position.
ReplyDeleteIt's also a bit of a tarnished area I think too -- what are the required qualifications to be a commentator these days anyway? There are so many bad ones these days that you have to think that they are operating on a whole different philosophy of what makes a "good" one.
Jacqueline did commentary on "Sunday Night Heat" for a bit. I think she only last a month or so.
ReplyDeleteWithout exaggeration, the WORST commentary I've ever heard - her delivery was more wooden than an elementary-school play.
Wasn't Jackie on colour commentary for Heat for a while, too? I remembered that like a week after I sent this.
ReplyDeleteAnd I didn't know about the SHIMMER commentary. I've only been able to find a little bit of footage and it's all been sans-commentary.
Not a single one of you so-called "old-timers" remembers Boni Blackstone??
ReplyDeleteWow, I can't believe we all missed that one.
ReplyDeleteWasn't Ivory a regular color commentator for a while in 02 or so? I know she co-hosted Jakked or Metal or Epilepsy or one of those shows with Josh Matthews, I thought she was also at the announce booth during that time? Maybe not.
ReplyDeleteI know Jackie was a ref for a while, she might have done commentary, I can't say for sure. I remember arund the time Raven was on color but before Lita took over, they had a whole bunch of random people like Dreamer, Crash Holly, D-Lo, etc. It's possible she did some shows around that time.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Danger did the commentary on the one SHIMMER show I've watched from beginning to end. She had a pretty funny line about how a debuting heel had only been there a few minutes and the crowd already hated her. She wound up working a match in the middle of the show, too.
ReplyDeleteOn the wrestlers feuding with commentators front, Booker T vs. Cody happened a couple months ago. That's one of the better examples I can think of (at least compared to something like Lawler vs. Tazz).
Was Epilepsy an actual name for one of the syndicated shows? They all kind of blurred together for me since we didn't get them down here much (well, at least the WWE ones. I swear we had WCW Worldwide until they sold to the McMahons).
ReplyDeleteDidn't Sunny do some commentary back when they were trying to find something for her to do? As far as the present day goes, I wouldn't be shocked if they had Vickie Guerrero do it someday, if for no other reason than that she's done practically everything else. Maybe she and Cole would cancel each other out, or he'd be less of a douche with her to play the heel role?
ReplyDeleteNo there was one called Velocity, Epilepsy is just a joke I cribbed from Eric Szculzewski because Velocity's intro had a lot of really fast camera whips & strobe effects and the like.
ReplyDeleteI think the lack of female commentators has to do with the low amount of females in general involved in wrestling.
ReplyDeleteHennan used to take some hilarous shots at McGuirk...
ReplyDeleteHeenan: "Who's the toots?"
Gorilla: "That's our new ring announcer, the lovely Mike McGuirk".
Heenan: "Mike?! What's her brother's name, Sally?"
Gorilla: I don't know... maybe her father wanted a boy".
Heenan (under his breath): "Looks like he almost got one..."
Uh-oh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd9Zd3fBZiI
ReplyDeleteThis is another thing I feel like I should know, and am kind of embarrassed to ask, but who the hell would name their daughter Mike? Is it some inside joke I didn't hear of?
ReplyDeleteYeah Sunny certainly did her share of color in the early Attitude era, especially on the syndicates and Shotgun.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite part of the Susan St. James commentary at WrestleMania 2 was how she was just DISGUSTED at how fat and ugly Adrian Adonis was. I know that's kind of the point of the guy, but she was downright "who would want to see this shit?" about him.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see Kelly Kelly transition to commentary full time. Every time she guest commentates she adds so much to the broadcast. Her awkward giggles at Lawler's advances, enthusiastic agreements to the face announcer's opinions and extended silence is whats missing from WWE.
ReplyDeleteWas that her actual name? I thought it was a nickname...you know, "Mic" because she was an announcer?
ReplyDeleteIt was probably Michelle but they called her Mike because it was 1984 and everyone was completely blown out on coke.
ReplyDeleteIt would've fit perfectly with the time considering all the manly rock stars were wearing hairspray and eyeliner, why not call a girl a guys name?
This post has me imagining Susyn Waldman calling Wrestlemania.
ReplyDelete"OH MY GOD KING of all the dramaaaaaatic things I've ever seeeeeeeeeeen, who could have predicted Rockyyyyyyyyyy beating Jaaaawn Ceeeeeeeeeena....I wondaaaaaa what Posaaaaaaada is thinkinggggggggg? Back to youuuuuuu Kiiiiiiiing."
Holy fuck it isn't pretty.
Her father was Leroy McGuirk, famed promoter/owner of the Oklahoma territory. His dream was to have a son that he could give the George Gulas treatment to, but he got a daughter instead and named her Mike, just because that's the kinda guy he was.
ReplyDeleteI just shot myself in the face, so thanks.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm imagining that old windbag Sterling calling the end of a match--" John Cena wins...John CEEEna wiiiieeiieeieieieieiins".
And I just shot myself in the face again. Man, if ever there were a guy whose vocal cords I'd like to rip out, it's him.
Blackstone was my first thought, but I only recall her as a backstage interviewer.
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