Calling the Action:10 best Wrestling announcers

#3 Gordon Solie

Gordon Solie, the man who called the first Starrcade

Perhaps the most influential of all wrestling announcers, Gordon Solie used to call matches for only five dollars a night!

Eventually, he worked his way into the announce booth for the CWF promotion in Florida. Gordon's trademarked phrases are many and are still used by wrestling announcers today. He was the first to say a bleeding wrestler had 'donned a crimson mask,' and originated the phrase 'pier six brawl'.

Perhaps his most famous idiosyncrasy was the way he pronounced suplex, making it sound like 'sou-play'.

Gordon worked for CWF for nearly twenty-five years, calling matches for legends like Dusty Rhodes during his Texas Hangmen days. Gordon passed away in 2000, leaving a hole in wrestling fan's hearts around the world, but he lives on in today's announce teams.