10 Most annoying catchphrases in WWE history

Michael Cole was one of those brilliant heels who had multiple annoying catchphrases

So much is often said about the best catchphrases in WWE history. WWE’s advent into pop culture litany has everything to do with its larger than life characters. Most of them were differentiated by their catchphrases. Like any TV show or movie, a catchphrase may strike a chord and stand the test of time. It becomes a pop culture artefact.

But sometimes, the catchphrases are just plain annoying. You remember them because they just won’t stop shoving it down your throat. And once it’s been uttered, you don’t miss it anymore. It’s one major relief.

Here are the 10 most annoying catchphrases in WWE history.

?10.’Really?’

The Miz

Yes, really. Miz may go down in history as one of the best heels WWE has seen. For somebody who started off from a reality show, he’s done pretty good for himself. While he’s good on the microphone and gets some legit heat from casual and hardcore fans alike.

The origins of this can be taken way back to the time when he was the WWE Champion. While, it may be something that suits Miz, it was an embarrassing variation to the ‘What’ catchphrase by Austin. It was just hard not to compare ‘Really’ to ‘What’ and think how ‘really’ wrong WWE got with it.

Thankfully, Hollywood Miz isn’t using it anymore.

9.’Vintage’

Commentator Michael Cole’s use of the word vintage has lost it’s significance

The next person to have an annoying catchphrase is Miz’s former fanboy, Michael Cole. Don’t rest assured, as this isn’t the last of Cole’s appearance on this list. Michael Cole was given one major heel push during one summer and that may be the most mind-numbing time to deal with his commentary.

That fanboy gimmick built him into being one of the most annoying WWE personalities on screen. The moment that helped him become bearable was the way he handled the commentary after Lawler’s heart attack incident during Raw.

The ‘Vintage’ catchphrase was overused so much during commentary. No wonder, those were one of the worst years of commentary in the WWE.

8.’Ryback Rules’

Ryback hasn’t found his feet in the company

There is some untapped potential in Ryback, the superstar, but Creative is just unable to find the right gimmick for the dude. They made him start out by competing in squash matches which went on for a long, long time. Many gimmick changes later, Ryback’s character is still not fully formed.

WWE tried the ‘feed me more’ phrase to catch on, which has achieved some moderate success. But ‘Ryback Rules’ was just so forced. It was something a kindergartner would exclaim.

7.’Shucky Ducky Quack Quack’

Booker TCaption

This may be an unpopular opinion, since this phrase was considered quite funny by many. It has quite a few standalone videos in Youtube. But the best part of a great catchphrase is how seamless it seems during promos. It’s expected yet you wait for it eagerly.

Booker T’s exclamation just seemed forced and on cue whenever a divas match happened or they made an entrance. It had the tendency to feel as creepy as Jerry Lawler’s reputation when it comes to ogling at the female performers.

6.’Woo woo woo. You Know it’

Zack Ryder

Zack Ryder has definitely been treated unfairly. For someone who was the architect behind a cult following is now an irrelevant character in the WWE. His entire career is now an example of the ‘15 minutes of fame’ adage.

While ‘Don't crare, spike you hair’ was something cool and could have been used more on television, WWE decided to give him this catchphrase- Woo woo woo. You know it. There isn’t any catchphrase that is as pointless as this one. None so far. ‘Even ‘Woo woo woo’ could have been understandable. But ‘you know it’? That’s just unfathomable.

5.’Excuse Me’

Vickie Guerrero was great at being annoying. Her shrill voice was enough to get some major heat. Then came the piercing ‘Excuse Me’. This is one memorable catchphrase just because we were used to hearing it so, so, so, so much.

This is an instant heat garnering tool. But it was still an assault to the senses. Guerrero left the company last year and while she is missed, it is still a bit of a relief that we don’t get to hear that ‘Excuse Me’ catchphrase anymore.

4.’It is my destiny’

Destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny, destiny....

Did you guys doze off? This catchphrase was the major sleep inducer during Alberto Del Rio’s promos. So much that it was unanimously cheered when CM Punk said this-

“If you say because it's your destiny, I swear to Jebus, I'm gonna start drinking”

CM Punk was also right when he said that people fast forward their DVR’s during a Del Rio promo and still don’t miss a darn thing. All the writing team had Del Rio say for a major part of his early career was that it was all his destiny.

It was a failure of epic proportions.

3.’Can I have your attention’

Ladies and getlemen, now we move on to the relic that was Michael Cole, the heel. He quite simple carved a reputation for himself as being just plain unbearable. The anonymous Raw General Manager storyline was dumb and insulting because, really, how stupid does WWE think the audience is?

The moment you heard the notification tone, you just had to raise your arms in disbelief for the next painful moment that was about to go down. And then, to hear Cole’s voice was just way beyond the saturation point of tolerance.

2.’I’ve got an email from the Anonymous Raw general manager’

For how overplayed this gimmick of the GM role was, it was even more annoying to have Cole say something that is quite painfully understandable. We know that there is a message from the ANONYMOUS RAW GENERAL MANAGER, just stop the spoon feeding already!

The duration of Cole getting up from his chair to walk towards the laptop was excruciating. What a waste of screen time, this gimmick.

1.’And I quote’

This was the opposite of the term ‘cherry on top’.

To add insult to injury, Cole after that elongated response to the GM’s ringtone would walk to the podium to read a piece of paper, which everybody could see. He wasn’t reading an email, he was reading a piece of paper. An ‘And I quote’ from Cole just meant ‘Kill Me Now’ from the audience.