Ranking WWE Superstars' MICROPHONE SKILLS (WWE Tier Ranking)
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Cody Rhodes delivers promos like he doesn't know wrestling is fake 😂😂😂 he be going through every emotion
Son of Dusty Rhodes,He should be good in that 🤣🤣
That’s quite literally the whole point of kayfabe… 😂
Scripted*
@@jamesgamon74exactly
But every cody promo be like, "My father is Dusty Rhodes"
Orton reminds me a lot of Jake “The Snake” Roberts: cold, calculated, and menacing. You won’t jump up and cheer/chant, but you know they mean business.
Absolutely. Jake barely had to try!. He was fantastic
I somewhat agree. Jake Roberts was special though. There's this aura when he cuts promos. The best way I can describe it is emotionally intimidating.
Orton's character is often emotionless so an emotional promo would cause inconsistency so I totally agree with you. You won't ever remember an Orton promo like you would a Rock or Jericho or Austin but to create character consistency he is absolutely brilliant.
Orton's promo style is very much like Jake Roberts.
I guess that's appropriate given Jake through a python on people and Randy Orton was called The Viper.@@kylehill3883
I think Shinsuke, Asuka and IYO all have good mic skills. When they speak Japanese that stuff is fire.
Right!! We might not understand it but you feel what they say
That promo Shinsuke cut on Seth’s back tonight just made me realize how fantastic he really is on the mic
@@idkcutno7276it was an incredible promo
Iyo's skits with Zoey Stark in NXT were solid.
my thing is why don’t they at least try to learn english .. all these years and only 2 word promos , it’s holding them back so bad
FINALLY someone gets it!! The segment about Randy is on point. I can't believe people don't get what good promos are, its keeping your persona, loyalties and all your quirks intact while you talk. Very few, and handful of the few can do that consistently while telling a compelling storyline.
Brock at trash is crazy, when given the mic he can cook, look at his stuff in recent years. he wasn't good before but he's developed amazingly without heyman
Absolutely not, there’s no consistent top star that’s been worse on the mic than Lesnar
He’s terrible on the mic, he had his moments. He doesn’t need to be good at it, he still has that main boss vibes.
I think you need to look at Brock the same way that Santi looked at Cody, where he didn’t enjoy his promo’s but he acknowledged they were good.
I have enjoyed Brock’s promo’s, but they were absolutely dreadful on the face of it.
Imagine it was a newcomer coming in and cutting those promo’s…they would be ripped to pieces. It’s JUST the fact it’s Brock Lesnar cutting them, acting that way…with the name and reputation that he has already built for himself…that makes them much more entertaining than they have any right to be.
@@JDTStagg-same man you speaking facts
@@chiefskingdom_24lol sorry, if Reigns is hall of fame(which he's def not) then Brock is atleast great.
Obviously this was recorded before tonight’s Raw, but Shinsuke Nakamura’s prerecorded promo with subtitles was actually really good, obviously it’s a bit harder to do that for a traditional in ring promo, but it worked really good for that type of promo
Dude, his promo tonight's one of the best promo's in recent memory. Really going all in on making Nakamura a perfect foreign heel (like Iron Sheik, Nikita Koloff, Yokozuna) and one I'd be thrilled to see beat Seth.
Agree with Jey. Emotionally he just excels on the mic. Same with Miz.
Jey is awesome but jimmy is at the same lv in my perspective if they tell him to out there and cook he does when the usos are in the ring he does most of the talking now they have this story line that Jimmy gets this weak promo but the " when it comes to the greatest tag team when it comes to the day one then uce I AM THE TRIBAL CHEIF" that promo by Jimmy was phenomenal
Feel like Jimmy is a top tier promo in the tag team. But not solo. Jey is top tier promo tag or solo. I think Jimmy relies on bouncing off Jey for the “lockdown” and “Uso penitentiary stuff”. It’s no knock on Jimmy, he built his promos around being a tag team wrestler and he was fantastic at that. I think he’ll improve solo too, Jeys had more experience.
The Miz top 3 mic users of all time
Mic users lmao idk why but this reminded me of Star Wars fans saying force users like miz got a special power or something lol
1. Rock
2. Stone cold
3. John cena
4. Cm punk
5. MJF
6. Ric flair
7. Chris jericho
8. Paul Heyman
Where is miz😂😂😂😂
@@Sad-Man-y2j punk just whines on the mic
@@Sad-Man-y2jMJF???😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Sad-Man-y2jTop 3 at the very least
Randy orton is quite chilling on the mic when heel. Does it so well. And i actually enjoyed his run with riddle, great sense of humour. Randy is a better wrestler but his mic work is great.
I agree with Jey & Jimmy promo skills. Jey speaks with passion and his facial expressions are on point.
imo cody is really great on the mic
He’s the best currently with La knight
He is. I think the issue is that due to TikTok and modern day social media, people don’t have the attention span to be able to listen to longer things without going on their phone.
@@xdestructivecdx6714facts. And he’s so formal with it which fits his character perfectly but fans like disrespectful roasts instead
Sorry but omitting Ludwig was criminal! You put Gunther but, honestly he's not the voice of imperium, that's Ludwig all day!
Jon Moxley\Dean Ambrose was the voice of the shield, Seth didn’t talk as much as Dean
Great list. Far and away most improved in the last few years is Roman. Like you said, once upon a time was ultra cringe, getting torched by all especially Cena and was outta his element. Before the pandemic he had a couple glimpses but nothing continuous or concrete. I still remember him lashing at the audience when him and Ambrose were in the ring and the crowd told him "you can't wrestle" and he told them to "calm down, take a sip of beer and shut the hell up"😂. Another moment was when the leukemia came back and he had to relinquish the strap. Was cool to see the genuine and heartfelt side of him that really connected. Working alongside Paul the last few years and seeing his transformation on the stick has been enjoyable.
Ilja Dragunov is a guy that has been amazing me with his promos. That intensity and passion whenever he speaks is very hard to find in a wrestler nowadays
hes those small guys a promoter should really consider pushing..his intensity and passion for the world of Pro wrestling is great
He was doing main roster people.
Man his promo is just fierce that it would give everyone chills, he mean it if he said he gonna hurt his opponent
Ur a grinder bro much respect to ur work ethic
Shinsuke's promos towards the end of this year with how they've been doing these prerecorded anime/animated infused vignettes have been great to watch. Sure his english isn't amazing but his expressions and menacing character with this new style has been great for me.
Jimmy doesn't touch jey? Bro go back to the promos when they had the tag team division on lockdown Jimmy was fire💯🤙
It's recency bias because jimmy used to cook
He should at least be great
My man put becky lynch on HOF 💀
I stop it when he said becky is a hof mic talked 😂
😂😂😂same
From Trash to HoF... Awesome journey... Roman Reigns....
Love how you don't get skeptical and always try to see the best on everyone I identify with you in that aspect, glad I subscribed !! ✊🏻
La knight not being in hall of fame is a crime, the stuff he did in nxt, was really good especially the promos with Cameron grimes, not to mention on the main roster he’s been doing crazy well, his promo against the miz shows he can go the distance, he absolutely flamed flop dolla and the rest of shit row, and the build ups to wrestlemania and mitb he was always delivering great characters
Dick up youngboul stop glazing
Oh well, every persons opinion can be a b!tch to certain people
If he's a heel Santi probably gonna put him in Hall Of Fame but ever since he turn face his promo kinda weak compared to his heel promos
I mean honestly not really. Don’t get me wrong LA Knight is still an amazing talker, but I can understand why you would put him there. Knight isn’t quite as fine tuned as most guys in the hall of fame as I will notice him stumbling over his lines at times. Not to mention I would argue LA Knight relies a lot on catchphrases and isn’t nearly as versatile as a lot of the best talkers.
Don’t get me wrong I still understand the argument for him being in the hall of fame, but I also can see why he’s not there yet.
That why his TH-cam channel sucks booty-o"s buddy sleep on la knight.
no idea why Shinsuke and others don't get a translator who acts like a manager, let him cut promos in his own language and have the manager try keep up
that would be a good gimmick
Like Khali
I don't watch much wrestling anymore but I'll always watch the promos. Even when I was watching I was more into promos/segments than matches.
Jimmy Uso is great on the mic at least. You're forgetting those promos with the New Day and that one with the American Alpha
Yea I really don’t know what he was talking about lol Jimmy is every bit as good on the mic as jey it’s just jey has been given more time
@@user-wt8im2ro1p Jey gets the edge because his range is better. Jey's always been the emotional one, Jimmy(Probably because he's the older one) just sounds more mature and not as loud, as intense.
@@greatnessdelton1381 I respect that but I think Jimmy in jeys role would do just fine
Brock's personality is a limit. If he is front of a crowd he can sort of get lost in the fact it's a haze and be reasonably comfortable but he is actually a shy guy and doesn't ever go out because of it. This is a reason he struggles connecting with the audience cos he doesn't do it in real life. So I agree he's not that good but it's also life imitating art unfortunately. Still goes with his character cos he's still scary af which is the point.
Brock at trash is insane, dude can cut a really good promo, he can connect and bounce off the crowd, and I definitely agree that he doesn’t need to talk but neither does Gunther and yet he’s at good
Really about lesnar, lesnar has been fantastic on mic and promos. He didnt need heyman and for the fist time since his return from ufc hes showed how good he is. Heyman and lesnar thing was past the point of getting old.
Exactly. And you can tell he keeps the intimidation with his promos
wrong, he is mediocr eon the mic, he need heyman.
also he never was fantastic on the mic, you praise him waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much
Dean was by FAR the best on the mic in the Shield. He gave them that “oh sh*t” feeling when he cut their promos
I agree, dean stood up with john cena without any hesitation and even did better off in one of his promo where john said "talking's cheap".
Eww the deathmatch wrestler? wasnt he always drunk?
30:55 I think dean ambrose was the best mic worker in the early days of shield and even after shield broke up. Dean ambrose was definitely a hall of fame mic worker.
Hands down.
Gonna shout out Tomasso Ciampa for the list, his promo got the intensity, emotion and he can adapt to any segments/conversation he needs to
I understand why you have Iyo and Asuka in trash, but I feel that even without being able to understand them, you've as much as admitted that you get invested in it, it's entertaining, and therefore I'd rate them higher than Liv who never gets you interested in what she's saying even with her unfair legup in this situation.
Gunther recently did an interview where he said he doesn’t really like promos and never really did them and just does them because it’s WWE and entertainment and he has to and he thinks he’s getting better. I agree, I think he does just fine. Also watch Shinsuke become the best promo in WWE now they’ve incorporated English subtitles 😂
Bro santi made me have a whole fucking new perspective on randy orton promos. I always loved them but santi made me realize how genius he is and how much that makes sense
another absolute banger. keep up the amazing work and get to the 100k!!
Dare I say, Miz talks better than everyone on this list.
Not a hot take
I mean where's the lie?
Lol cold take
Glad you’re all acknowledging Miz’s greatness. Finally. Only took decades.
@@02Raul434 blame wwe they have treated him mid for years. Look what happens when he works with a star and it’s serious LA knight he’s the best thing on tv instantly.
"Its called a promo kid..... If you wanna be the Big Dog you gotta learn how to do it" 😂
Now he is the biggest Dog in wrestling community....
What an incredible journey from trash to HoF....
@@subhasgram roman on the mic is still a joke tho
@@lightyagami6251at least he way more better than you
@@ar1p238 i mean unless his job involves speaking on the mic to a crowd.. what u said wouldnt make any sense
@@Zanoladab if his job didn't involve any of it then just don't say anything man(even though I haven't any right to stop that). Makes fun of someone that didn't do anything to you is so embrassing
Brock & Bobby are really good on the mic Brock was really bad & I think tried to hard but him keeping it short & going slow made hum better & Bobby going to impact & tht heel run & championship run made him so good on the mic he hasn't been able to be on like that in WWE but he's far from trash they both are really good
I honestly don't know how he can come up with banger video ideas EVERY DAY! And I agree with you about LA Knight. WWE has honestly just been having LA Knight cut promos for a great reaction. I always enjoy his promos, but I think its just his confidence and crowd reactions that really carry his promos. He hasn't been given great material to really show his mic skill in quite a while, so yeah hopefully this Miz feud will shine a light on Knight.
That Shinsuke promo in Japanese last night was nuts though. Need them to let him fly in that realm
The best mic workers in my opinion are Miz, Becky Lynch, The Rock, John Cena, CM Punk, Steve Austin, and Vince McMahon
becky is mediocre dude
Becky Hall of Fame on Mic🤣🤣🤣😭. Youre crazy for that one. Even Great is a bit of a stretch, I'll put Good
The Miz really got me interested in him after he tore down LA Knight. Looking forward to seeing where that goes.
Jimmy should be higher honestly. He was the best out of the 2 back in 2017 - 2018
The Miz's mic skills are less appreciated. He is one of the bona fide mic workers.
Never seen someone change on the mic as much as Bayley did.
She was completely shy and insecure as a face, but the heel turn totally changed her persona, and now she’s gold on the mic! Full of confidence, spontaneous, hilarious, she’s the total package
My tribal chief evolved from so shit on the mic to being one of the best. He learnt from getting absolutely smashed by John Cena before their no mercy match. More reason to acknowledge him
he is still mediocre on the mic, stutters and can't cut a good promo
ambrose would do all the talking for the shield i think you getting it mixed up
Should re-do this list since they started adding subtitles to Shinsuke's Japanese promos. His promos are actually FIRE when he's speaking Japanese.
That pic for logan was wild
Roman went from suffering succotash and getting ethered by Cena to obliterating Theory in that one promo and the epic trash talking to the camera “this is my show, I run it all”
He even said John 20 years of missionary might have been good for you but it wasn't good enough for Nicki Bella that was savage and it's not talked-about a lot
he's still trash
still boooooooring , zero personality roman
@@lightyagami6251oh the same guy, well for you it's boring because you can't understand one bit about it.
Brock at trash with those other trash mic workers is criminal
TRISH STRATUS BAD?!?! U CLEARLY DIDNT PAY ATTENTION TO HER PROMOS WITH BECKY…Trish is Amazing on the mic!
You should make a Rowdy Roddy Piper tier, that is a level above hall of fame. When it comes to promos and microphone skills, Piper is above hall of fame, and is his own tier. He is the level that everyone strives to get to when it comes to mic skills.
it boggles my mind WWE doesn’t get translators for the japanese wrestlers for live events. it makes them sound more monotone but it’ll be the easiest was for ppl to understand them i’m sure even the other wrestlers would appreciate it. i remember xavier woods using google translate in an UUDD video with nakamura and asuka. also considering how many of these wrestlers have pretty big careers in japan (ex. the OC) or are just weebs why haven’t they picked up any japanese to be like helpful either lol.
i think rather than trash the japanese wrestlers and solo should just be in N/A bc it’s not fair to judge their skills on specifically english promos.
also, after the bray wyatt tribute/promo against the mix LA Knight cut man is HOF status for mic work.
man roman reign has been long journey with the mic , waiting for part 2 with kaiser, maxine , otis , ciampa & theory
really doing Brock dirty, we just passed the 2 year mark of cowboy Brock and his promos have been hilarious and also scary. 100% he used to suuuuck at talking but now he definitely deserves good rating.
Some of Drew’s best promos were in ICW; “ I’m Drew Galloway, the personification of Pro Wrestling; Joseph Conors…. YOU ARE FUCKED!!!!”
Santi please revisit this tier list!
How much do they travel? You are right that the Japanese having English as their second language is a massive handicap with mic work. Maybe travel time would be a good time to learn English. They did make Asuka an after thought in the triple threat but if you can't cut a promo you can't really help that. If they spend the flights learning English they would have enough time to be able to do a better job. Maybe not perfect and maybe not as good as a native speaker but they could utilise their time better.
Trish is trash? I think she's pretty entertaining. I'd put her in Good easily, she's fun. Also, I think Charlotte is Good too. Overall, the writing of women's division is pretty poor and she doesn't have a lot to work with, but I can recall a couple of her promos that I liked.
Bray Wyatt: Hall of Fame tier
funny seeing this now after shinsuke just had a good long promo with subtitles. i think that approach is great for people who are great in ring but live promos arent the best for them with english not being a strong suit
My all-time favorite Randy Orton
ewww
@@mihaimercenarul7467 kid 🤡
Riddles mic work with Seth was really good
I dont know whether WWE despite pushing Roman knew if he was trully to be the main guy he needed to improve his mike skill so they put him up against Cena to really show him how to do it. I dont think you can learn from Cena unless your going up against him, seeing first hand how he can disect you piece by piece, if you cant learn from going up against Cena then you will never learn. I also think the promo he put out when he had to take time out because of Lukemia helped him because it wasnt scripted, it was from the heart.
For me the best superstars at the mic is Becky, Miz and Alexa.
The accuracy of this ranking 💯
After Nakamura promo today, he deffo moves up a tier at least
If John Cena was in the list he should've been the GOD TIER.
Oh and by the way, Kenji Muto( Great Muta) speaks perfect english but did have a character when he performed in America especially that did not really require him to talk. But if he needed to he could speak to an american audiance. If Keji Muto learned english why can't Asuka? Why can't the other girl learn too?
Because it is not a necessity. Muto learnt English which is good for him, but I'm guessing he refers Japanese over English. This is probably similar to Asuka, Iyo, Shinsuke or any other foreign wrestler. Wrestling is not just in English so it's nice when wrestlers do promos in their own language and we can tell they are comfortable.
Aj definitely hall of fame on the mic
That Shinsuke promo yesterday was great
i don't think Jey Uso is a HOF mic user. Yes, he can get emotional, but is verbiage is terrible; He can't express his thoughts word-wise and has to rely on emotions. For that I say middle of the great category.
Cody conveys emotion on the level of Sami Zayn it's absolutely incredible the crowd reaction on smackdown before elimination chamber 2023 was nuts and that was before he even said a word
Also I have Bayley in HOF as a promo artist I believe she's on Becky's level and the way her promos have evolved with her character you can even argue better than Becky I'm not but wouldn't blame you if you did
OK my notification came up with 'rating superstars MICROP...' and I was so confused
lol LA knight should be in HoF. Yes he has some of the best/over catchphrases but dude pretty much cooks everyone on the mic in the modern era and it’s been only 3 years he has been knight. I agree he hasn’t been in lots of storylines but every time he has the mic, it’s CINEMA
We need you to rate every single wwe wrestler
Cena, the Rock and CM punk are the only ones i would put in the top tier. Miz, KO and Edge are close
ABSOLUTELY agree with I
Opening comments. 75% if it is in good promos and storytelling
IMO Grayson Waller is going to be the next promo king, dude's really charismatic in the ring, on the mic and as a character. I really hope he becomes the next big deal, something I wanted Austin Theory to be but dude's got a long way to go.
i emailed this idea to your email three days ago, ima take credit for this video idea 😆
The best of all time with the mic is the rock I mean that’s a no brainer
Santi please do this with all time wrestlers. It would be amazing !
100k soon Santi!
I'd put Knight at Hall of Fame, considering his mic work long before the WWE. Also, while he is a catchphrase machine, he has gotten better with not using them as much in recent weeks.
Cm punk mic skill is HALL OF FAME
Roman Reigns' promo work: He graduated from Sufferin Succotash Junior High, and now he is currently enrolled in Tribal University!
Jimmy is Great on the promo
You forgot Karrion Kross 🕓⏳️🔥 the next big thing in Hollywood 🖤
This video dropped the same day Nakamura absolutely cooked on RAW 🤣
fun game in the SanitVerse:
take a drink whenever Santi says any variation of "cook"
There should've been a tier above HOF that was Icons. Guys like Rock, Cena, Heyman (as a manager), stone cold, etc
6:59 I didn’t know this guy was still in the company, is he still tag team competitor? I remember they were great in the ring
Nakamura speaking in Japanese for the Rollins feud the last couple of weeks really sounded like a real threat.
Awesome video
I think the LA Knight promo after Bray Wyatt passed was top notch
Miz skills are better than stone colds