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4 hours ago, Lorne Malvo said:

CM Punk is really good at one-liners, I find. 

One that always sticks out to me is during that WWE Backstage show, when he cut a promo on some celebrity and used the line 'you think you can take me? You couldn't take me bowling!' which I thought was a great little phrase.

The one I've mentioned on here before that stands out to me (and this is how good it is: I haven't watched WWE since about 2012, and I learned about it from here) is the one where he says to Seth Rollins:

"It's not always about me, but it's never about you."

He was always good at those "OOOOOOHHHH!"-invoking, cutting lines.

2 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Long before I knew it was a lyric, Dusty's "I offered up my innocence to her, she paid me back in scorn. Now only America can give me shelter from the storm." was one of the best things I ever heard on the wrestling. Dusty is incredible in that angle.

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Also, for sheer comedy value, Hacksaw stomping into shot to deliver "We're all still looking for her!" and stomping off is great.

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Dusty Rhodes is possibly my favourite talker in wrestling, ever. I didn't catch much of his career at all, so most of it has been on videos, DVDs, and online, but there are so many great promos of his on Youtube.

Some of my favourite lines:

"I don't look like how the athlete of the day's supposed to look - my belly's just a little big, my hiney's just a little big, but brotha: I am bad, and they know I'm bad!"

"Ronald Reagan! You ain't Nancy, but I'll get ya seats!"

and one of the silliest ones I've ever seen, when he brings a "gorilla" to the set:

"Koloffs! You gotta understand: you put me in this place!"

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9 hours ago, Snitsky's back acne said:

"I would, but I know where that hand's been". - Punk to Stephanie. 

Ugh, rotten. Hate that shit.

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Some of Punk's stuff has aged terribly and some of it, like his fake vomiting bit, was awful at the time.

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Saw Dusty Rhodes at Summerslam '90 and it reminded me to post this line post Sapphire turn, if only because his inflection and delivery is wonderful.

"People have been asking me, when you gonna maaaad big Dust, when you gonna get baaaad big Dust, when ya gonna get eeeeeeeven big Dust." 

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3 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

Toni Storm to Marina Shafir on Dynamite last night:

"Marina, you Mixed Martial Arsehole!"

That's fantastic. 

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2 hours ago, Devon Malcolm said:

Some of Punk's stuff has aged terribly and some of it, like his fake vomiting bit, was awful at the time.

Not just him, in fairness. Almost everything they wrote for a man talking to a woman from 96 to 2016 makes you cringe on rewatching.

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13 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Not just him, in fairness. Almost everything they wrote for a man talking to a woman from 96 to 2016 makes you cringe on rewatching.

And it's a pale reflection of how they were really talking to women behind the scenes too.

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38 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

Not just him, in fairness. Almost everything they wrote for a man talking to a woman from 96 to 2016 makes you cringe on rewatching.

I feel like when Austin Theory was having his run on top at IMPACT, a remember him being phenomenal. Then you listen back to some of his lines and one liners and..... eeeeeessschhh... it aged badly. A lot of really homophobic content. 

In fairness a lot of wrestler's promo probably suffer from the  same fate of "acceptable" insults nowaday being really quite gross.

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