WWE: The 22 Loudest Wrestlers We Just Want to Shut Up

Eventually, almost every wrestler has to grab a microphone. For many of them, wrestling fans would hope that they decide to drop it back down to the ground. It doesn't take a lot to be someone that is not good in cutting promos, but it does take a special kind of bad to make millions scream at them on their television screens to shut up. Sometimes, even the best faces can irritate you so much that you want to reach for the mute button on your remote.

Additionally, heels want fans to wish that they would be quiet. Not every heel needs to shut up, but the best heels can make you debate in your mind if they should shut up or if you want them to keep being an annoying heel. Regardless of the situation, here are 22 superstars that have made most people scream "Shut Up!", with no real order or ranking given.

Mike Adamle

Oh, Mike Adamle. What a mistake this guy was in WWE.

On the surface, it seemed like a fine idea at the time. Mike Adamle, formerly of American Gladiator lore, was signed to a contract with WWE as a backstage announcer. He had a nice sounding voice, but what he literally said showed that he knew nothing about professional wrestling. From his very first time on screen, Adamle referred to Jeff Hardy as "Jeff Harvey", which was the first shot taken in the war Adamle had against the English language.

The Great Khali

Khali simply could not speak, which is a common problem for those born outside of North America and learning English as a second language. This is why Khali has been aligned with many different managers in his career. Even with a mouthpiece standing alongside of him, Khali has often been given a microphone for either comical reasons or to use his accent to draw instant heat.

Either way, it sounds the same. It sounds awful and I want it to stop.

Brother Love

A simple look at Brother Love tells you that you are supposed to know that he is annoying. His red face and white suits just screamed heel tendencies. His voice was about as loud as his forehead. Perhaps, he was pissed off at everyone who left him sunbathing for too long.

Hornswoggle

Hornswoggle never really spoke. In fact, most instances of seeing him imply that he doesn't know how to talk. Even his mannerisms and sound effects were enough to make him annoying. There would even be times that his mumbles would sound coherent to some superstars and they would have conversations with the little guy. Do they think he is an Irish Scooby Doo or something?

Vickie Guerrero

Excuse Me.

That's all you need to hear and you will know that Vickie Guerrero is coming out. She doesn't need any entrance music and I'm pretty sure she has never really had any official music. The sound of her voice alone spurns on instant heat from the crowd. If she literally said "Excuse Me" and just stood there and did nothing else, she would still get some of the biggest boos of the night.

Some people are on this list because they are annoying on purpose and they did a good job at making you want them to shut up.

Ahmed Johnson

Ahmed Johnson was not one of those examples of purposely being annoying. Ahmed did that all by himself. If you need Exhibit A on what a lack of good mic skills does to a rising star, look no further than this guy.

Rule No. 1: if you can't talk well, don't talk louder and less clearer than you normally would speak. That doesn't make you sound tougher. It just makes you look idiotic. At least R-Truth does it on purpose. Ahmed Johnson did it to try and seem like a bad dude.

Jeff Hardy

Jeff Hardy has never been too strong on the microphone. This didn't stop him from being a world champion. Jeff did more than other bad mic workers by at least trying to improve his skills. The problem with these changes is that they were the wrong ones. Jeff's accent was only hurting him most of the time and his ability to yell at random parts in a sentence resembled a kid going through puberty.

I always preferred Jeff when he did his high-risk moves over doing anything else, especially when those activities included a microphone.

Michael Cole

Man, Michael Cole has always been annoying. At first, he was just annoying because he was marginally good as a backstage interviewer and commentator. Cole would be hated by mostly everyone, that is, until he actually began to turn heel. Most people still hated him, but many fans began to love to hate him.

Cole has toned it down somewhat in the last few months, but he still gets a good rise out of the crowd.

John Cena

I will give John Cena enough credit that he can actually handle a microphone better than some of the other main eventers. The problem with Cena is that he is the top guy of the company in this era of WWE history. For that reason, Cena is held under a huge microscope and makes the scrutiny of his moves almost unfair to him.

Cena is not terrible, but he is often over the top. Every one of his promos starts with him quiet before he finally builds up to direct yelling. A lot of his jokes and random references are not as funny under the cloud that is a TV-PG rating, so it isn't entirely Cena's fault. He does what he can given the situation, but he should cut it out sometimes while he is still ahead.

Jillian Hall

There is no job more fun in WWE than the type of role that Jillian Hall had. Hall could come to the ring with her gimmick fully built around purposely terrible mic skills. Hall's singing would be even worse and could drive absolutely anyone up the wall. WWE would never truly take Jillian Hall too seriously, which was fine, because neither did she.

I still hold my ears when I see her in pictures.

Lance Storm

If I can be serious for a moment, Lance Storm is a good in-ring competitor and was perhaps one of the most underrated talents in the late 1990s and early 2000s. With that said, someone should make it a federal law for Storm to speak into a microphone.

For as much talent that he had for a match, he had that much less talent when he had to say anything. At least WWE had the right idea to use that boring aspect for Storm and make it into his gimmick. That was a better idea than to have him dance like an idiot.

Maryse

Maryse is such a beautiful woman that it doesn't even matter if she speaks French. Then, she begins to talk and it suddenly does matter. Maryse began as a competing Diva, winning the Divas Championship twice. She would eventually end up being a valet for Ted DiBiase, which prompted her to talk more since she wasn't doing much else.

Nowadays, Maryse is a co-host of NXT, as if we needed another reason to not watch the show. Now, we need to hear Maryse, her attitude and her constant talking in French.

Chris Jericho

Chris Jericho is the best in the world at what he does, even if all he does is speak. From the early days where he was a rock and roll sensation telling people to "shut the hell up" to his latest gimmick of using big words and calling fans parasites, Jericho would just keep on talking. As wrestling fans, we would listen to every word, even if we might not know what some of them meant.

There are rumors of a possible Jericho return, but only if he can return with a different character than he has had before. Regardless of what that character could be, Jericho will do one heck of a job on the mic.

Ricardo Rodriguez

I have a feeling that we may never see Ricardo Rodriguez again in a WWE ring after being beaten up by Big Show. In his tenure as Alberto Del Rio's personal ring announcer, Rodriguez annoyed the heck out of the WWE Universe, speaking only in Spanish. Do yourself a favor and try to look up some of the things that Rodriguez said during his entrance of Del Rio. For instance, the following was a translated version of what Rodriguez said at WrestleMania:

"

Ladies and Gentlemen, people of Atlanta and people from all over the world, it is my great honor to introduce to you the winner of the Royal Rumble 2011, making his debut here in WrestleMania, I introduce to you the essence of excellence and Mexico's pride. He is your future world heavyweight champion
Albertoooooo del RrrrrrrrriiiiiiOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!

"

For most of them, here is a link to a forum with a bunch of them.

Alberto Del Rio

Alberto Del Rio is just as annoying as his ring announcer is. Del Rio is able to switch from English to Spanish and still keep his heel heat. Del Rio constantly has used his natural heat from his gimmick to use his constant bragging about himself. I love Del Rio as a heel, but even I tend to get fed up with his repetitive mentioning of how Rey Mysterio is a chihuahua and it is his destiny to be a world champion.

Paul Bearer

I remember being legitimately scared of Paul Bearer when I was younger. His voice freaked me out. I could live with the urn, the pasty white skin and the weird faces he made. His voice always threw it over the top for me. Bearer's creepy voice and his talk of death-related promos would always send a chill down my spine. Bearer always did his job well, but I always wanted him to stop freaking me out when I was only a little kid.

Now, looking back at his great promos, I miss seeing those kinds of talkers in WWE.

John Bradshaw Layfield

From one half of a beer-drinking tag team to a clean cut, Wall Street cowboy, John Bradshaw Layfield certainly drew a lot of heat. As Bradshaw, Layfield wouldn't talk nearly as much as he did when he was JBL. Layfield would win a world championship and refer to himself as a "Wrestling God". To be perfectly honest, everything that JBL said to the crowd was at least partially about his true life, where he would earn money in the stock market and have success in the ring at the exact same time.

It's hard to not envy the very fulfilling life that Layfield has lived, but we don't need to hear him brag to us all the time.

Vince McMahon

The boss would always want to talk. He certainly had the right to do so; after all, it was his business that we were watching. McMahon could honestly come out and say whatever he felt like, which he often did. Most of the time, McMahon would piss off the fans by talking down to popular faces like The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin. McMahon would often reference his "manhood" and once called himself a "genetic jackhammer".

Thanks for everything, Vince, but please shut up.

Spirit Squad

The Spirit Squad was five male cheerleaders who would come out and yell out a cheer, then try to use their strength in numbers to beat you up. The five men collectively won tag team gold and seemed unstoppable for a good period of time.

It was so easy to hate these guys, especially because most people hated the idea of this gimmick and how strong they were built as so early. I don't like many cheerleaders, especially male ones, and especially male ones that take up time on my favorite wrestling shows.

Jerry "The King" Lawler

Jerry Lawler used to be a great color commentator during the Attitude Era. Once the company's direction began to change, so did Jerry. Jerry's change in commentary may have been even worse than the change in WWE's content as a whole. All that Lawler can seem to muster nowadays are jokes about how fat Vickie Guerrero is and how annoying Michael Cole is. Good one, King.

Rey Mysterio

Rey Mysterio has never been very strong on the microphone, so why would you ever give him the ability to talk constantly, especially when many masked wrestlers have seldom talked? Mysterio's promos are as repetitive as his matches are now. I respect Mysterio for everything that he has done, but there has been a lot with his mic skils that has hurt his reputation with many fans. Despite never being a heel in WWE, he has drawn a lot of hatred by focusing his tenure with the company on his harmless 619 finisher.

It also doesn't make sense to me how people can cheer for him when half of his promos are in both Spanish and English. Most don't have a clue what he is saying when he changes languages, yet they cheer along all the same. It just makes me shake my head.

Shelton Benjamin

The story of Shelton Benjamin on the microphone is one of the most tragic in recent memory. Rarely has such a pure athlete with such a lack of charisma tried so unsuccessfully to get over with his talking ability. It literally is the reason that Benjamin was never considered a true main event player and is probably why he is still not in WWE today.

I've pretty much had it at this point with Benjamin, especially because he should have looked for help instead of living in wrestling purgatory for so long. Yes, that was both a knock at staying in the mid-card forever and also a jab at WWE's version of ECW. I've given up hope in Benjamin making it one day and, should he ever return to WWE, I will have no faith in him until he can prove me otherwise.