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To be a top tier superstar within the world of professional wrestling, it is almost a certainty that the talent must have strong microphone skills.
It’s a necessity as a skill to build a great in ring worker who is stuck in the mid-card, and turn him into a shining star of the main event. Some Superstars within the WWE aren’t of American origin and have to adjust how they talk in their countries to adjust to their environments.
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Here are 6 of the best non-American superstars to talk on the mic.
#6 Rusev
It certainly isn’t any secret that Rusev’s mic skills were down to Lana cutting most of the promo work in the early days of his career. Lana is captivating, alluring and one of the company's best mic workers.
Her presence has helped catapult Rusev, making him one of WWE's fasting rising stars
This has changed as of late for Rusev. He has been given more time to talk for himself and his mix of broken English and intensity has worked for him as a heel in the business. Lana will probably for the foreseeable future be his main mouthpiece but he is definitely improving and is holding his own when it comes to the mic.
#5 Paige
Paige has gone from being a heel to a face and vice versa a few times already in her young career. She is an interesting talent to have on the list because she’s so young. This means that her style of promo cutting is still developing and going to change dramatically with years of experience.
All that being said, she still has delivered some good promo work to date in the WWE and her mic skill are definitely improving. Her mic skills stand out especially in the Divas division because of the ratio of American woman to foreign woman in the business.
Without a doubt, Paige’s mic skills and in ring work will elevate her to massive heights in the years to come.
#4 Wade Barrett
What helped Barret increase his mic skills exponentially was the introduction of the Bad News Barrett gimmick. Barrett was excellent at delivering disheartening news to the masses of WWE fans.
He may not have the deep store of charisma that some of the top talkers in the business have, but he was regularly entertaining.
His delivery was strong. His lines were crisp, and his inflections were ideal. Because he was doing this gimmick in America, his gravelly voice and English accent only aided his negative rants.
#3 William Regal
When looking back over the history of wrestling and assessing all-time greats in anything, William Regal is far too often left out of the discussion. Regal could entertain on the microphone whether he happened to be working as a heel or as a face.
As a heel, he had an uncanny ability to fill his promos and dialogue with menace and vitriol. He could make you scared for whoever his opponent was going to be or whoever he was addressing because his diction and how he sounded made bad things seem imminent for that other person.
Regal’s greatest strength as a talker was his work as a face when he would get extremely angered at whoever he was addressing. It’s hard to pick out moments where Regal was actually bad on the mic.
#2 Chris Jericho
It’s no secret that Jericho has exceptional ability on the microphone, to compliment the amazing things that he is capable of as an in-ring performer.
There haven’t been many people who have been better at portraying arrogance on the microphone than Jericho. He also displays a huge level of self-confidence on the mic, which is always a good start to getting over with a crowd.
Whenever Jericho speaks as a heel, you always got the feeling that even though he would say that he was better than whoever he was up against, that wasn’t going to stop him doing something incredibly underhanded to succeed in winning.
Truly a legendary old school heel.
#1 Kevin Owens
Kevin Owens tops this list ahead of Chris Jericho, perhaps merely because his first language wasn’t English. Hailing from the predominantly French-speaking Quebec, Canada, Owens reportedly only picked up the English language by watching other Superstars cut promos.
This is something Owens himself has narrated in an episode of Talk is Jericho, incidentally.
To think that his promo cutting skills are at the level they are, and in a language that isn’t even naturally familiar to him, is nothing short of mind blowing.
