Cool. I used to watch him wrestle on WTBS out of Atlanta when I was a kid. Anyone remember Gordon Soley?
Yes, I remember Solie. Great announcer, but overrated by the WWF-haters.
I do..
Yeah, but do you remember Mr. Wrestling II and his atomic kneelift?
>>Cool. I used to watch him wrestle on WTBS out of Atlanta when I was a kid. Anyone remember Gordon Soley?<<
Sniff.... "So long from the great peach state of Georgia..."
>>Cool. I used to watch him wrestle on WTBS out of Atlanta when I was a kid. Anyone remember Gordon Soley?<
http://www.wrestlingclassics.com/fe/fe-solie.html
>>So why is Gordon so much more revered than any of them?
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Because Gordon did such a great job of getting everybody else over, he got himself over more than any announcer ever.
Anybody that listened to Gordon Solie believed in wrestling. They may not have believed it was a contest, but Gordon made them believe what was happening was important and the guys doing it were special.
He was often called the Walter Cronkite of professional wrestling. Cronkite is considered the most credible and most trusted newscaster of all time. Solie brought the same level of credibility to wrestling, no matter how incredible his assignment might be at the time.<<