10 Phrases that WWE commentators are banned from using
WWE fans have no idea how daunting and difficult the task of a WWE commentator is. Vince McMahon himself was a commentator up until the mid-1990s, but then, he wasn't able to be in the ear of other commentators like today.
That's the biggest challenge. You're on live television, you're basically the gateway to telling millions of people across the world the multiple stories that take place inside the world of WWE.
We've seen commentators rotate, come, and go, but what the job is - it's anything but easy. Apart from just having Vince McMahon in their ears, they also have a whole set of restrictions and "Do's" and "Don'ts" that they strictly have to follow.
Nowadays, the training of commentators is done in the WWE Performance Center, the same place where wrestlers train as well. Corey Graves, Renee Young, Byron Saxton, Percy Watson, Nigel McGuinness are just a few of the others who have been trained inside WWE's PC.
However, based on a list of sheets that was leaked onto Reddit's Squared Circle, a shocking list of restrictions and instructions to commentators was revealed. The Boss himself has a lot of specifications and requirements of his program, and he likes to take full control of it. Let's take a look at some of the words and phrases that WWE commentators are not allowed to use under any circumstances.
#10 "Title changing hands"
Fans often refer to the change of championship to the "title changing hands". However, WWE doesn't allow this. For them, a superstar has either won the championship or lost the championship. In fact, they hardly ever say "the title is on the line". Instead, they choose to say "the title will be defended" instead.
You'd think that such minor things wouldn't make a difference, but you're about to be very surprised!