What a WWE Referee Hears In Their Earpiece

[@SteRDLK]

Mike Chioda's carny: saying numbers Hulk Hogan's carny: Bizig bizoobs

[@lazypaladin]

_"They dont teach you Carny in school?"_ Well, Get on it Mike!

[@Yoni123]

They should

[@Leanzazzy]

The whole reason Carny was invented was so that the audience never realised it was all an elaborate work and the wrestlers are communicating with each other and backstage. Nowadays everyone knows it's scripted and kayfabe has gone out the window. So no one cares even if wrestlers loudly communicate in English. There are many wrestlers who are old-school and obviously grew up speaking Carny, but now they just speak in plain English e.g. Shawn Michaels, the Undertaker etc because newer talent don't know Carny.

[@tmoneyync]

Legendary ref

[@antoniodagostino2291]

This is why refs and commentary should be eligible for HOF it's everyone working together to put on a show and some of the refs taking a bump for the fans is their dedication to the craft

[@beatngu9469]

💩 take

[@TheQuincyEdwards]

Wait wait wait… am I just learning the reason it’s called gorilla position is because Gorilla Monsoon sat there ?!?

[@AlmondGlazedSunrise]

I didn't know at first either. My dumb ass thought they sat by the curtain like a gorilla. 😂

[@L4-295]

@@AlmondGlazedSunrise????

[@DemonDriver31]

​@@L4-295 He was confused.

[@741blizz]

yes it is named after him

[@smoothpoon86]

Welcome to a 30 year old conversation

[@smoothpoon86]

When you spend your much of your life waiting on people you get really good at predicting and managing time

[@sjdhgydhfyrn1023]

Sad that the historical carnival wrestling culture has almost died out, even the remnants of jargon. The business has probably the most fascinating origins of any sport/performance genre, and almost no one is still alive who knows about it, even the kids in the ring.

[@kingpeso4240]

Being a Referee and WWE star has to be so hard😂

[@stevemiller4292]

If you haven’t replaced the lyrics of My Sharona with Mike Chioda you aren’t my friend

[@leatherface964]

They definitely didn't teach that in the hood. 😂😂😂

[@powerofme7144]

I imagine it's more like "$#!t! What the ___ are you doing damnit?!? Noooo! You ruined the spot, two seconds late! I'm going to ___ on your head when you get to the back! I love Brock!!!"

[@CVVCLIPS]

Watch the full interview with Mike Chioda on my main channel here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jILbfKBrlLipiM0

[@danielpopa3344]

Mike Chioda was the best wwe ref

[@lightweights]

incredible chat

[@RYAN45d]

Best referee

[@bilders6701]

He's still standing looking confused holding a MITB briefcase.

[@michaelvazquez7851]

Good interview

[@mauricegilliam7102]

This is what I like to hear about, the technical stuff of wrestling 😂

[@nicolekestner185]

Cvv wouldn't never made it 20 years ago exposing the industry like he does

[@JaaySnipes]

Oh hellllll nah . Vince woulda put a hit on this dude

[@EBK_iN_MY_DNA]

@@JaaySnipesyea the 90’s I could def see that happening

[@Taima]

@@JaaySnipes lmao exact words I was thinking reading his comment before checking the replies

[@AnthonySalinovic]

Late 90s early 2000s , off the record with Michael Landesberg . Great interviews , out of character. Watch those, very good stuff

[@joshuahurdle239]

Kayfabe died years ago so it doesn't really matter anymore.

[@TheLivewire18]

lol makes me think of Kizarny

[@HempBraum]

holy deep voice!

[@realdealastrology9]

Definitely a chain smoker

[@majinpvegeta]

Damn and I thought Don Callis was the only one that spoke Carny

[@Taima]

Tbf I do wonder how well Chioda can actually speak it since he only ever repeatedly gave the same examples. Sure minute counts are one of the most important things he'll say to a talent but it's hardly the only thing.

[@ZTriggerGaming]

I broke into the business (just indies) in 2004. I spoke carny but very few of my peers did. I imagine it’s almost totally gone by now. Never once did I use it to call a spot. Just while talking business at the after party or something like that.

[@FranBushardt]

TOMMY YOUNG IS TRULY HALL OF FAME Material!!! He was a Long time Ref Before his NWA Days!!

[@philthatcher6111]

Assumed it was common knowledge what the gorilla position is, they named it after his passing no?

[@Alan-ms3kp]

It was the Gorilla position from about a year after he started sitting there. It just never lost the name after he stopped (RIP)

[@thesupervisor3270]

Mattel needs to make a figure of Mike 💯

[@EBK_iN_MY_DNA]

I always wondered why they didn’t make refs! I had sone special ‘guest referees’ tho

[@therapper000]

I thought they did

[@davescire3004]

Wow Vince truly was a tyrant not only was he screaming into the announcers ear piece telling them what to say but he did the same thing with the referees I don't understand the need to countdown every single minute I can understand telling the referees they have 5 minutes 2 minutes etc but every minute they do a countdown?? That's insane

[@right-wing_reactionarychri8798]

Thats good to know because I'm aspiring to be a pro wrestler.

[@realdealastrology9]

Good luck baby

[@AjFrancisshomeboySteve]

So carnys have a language all their own?? Good to know

[@kotsy]

Odd that Theo Von had a carny on his podcast last week and they talked about the carny language.

[@solidsnake5317]

Mizark 😂

[@anon2414]

Y isn’t he still referring is my question

[@a_red_dragonfly]

Interesting!

[@kidbrown2010]

That's insane that they are not teaching them "carny" anymore. How the business changes through the generations.

[@FranBushardt]

I hate Hearing All the DEDICATED NWA Wrestlers that never wrestled for Vince that have Become WWE people instead of either TNA or AEW..

[@Clipperbossman]

Cool

[@AwakeningKillz]

This interview is old must be desperate for views to repost a clip again

[@billoneil2719]

I just hated this guy..He was always in the way

[@jaredwhite489]

Wrestling’s fake? Screw this I’m out

[@kellysavalas5937]

Why are you dressed exactly the same?

[@GillBoldberg]

“We’re not wrestling!” -Bucky Beaver 🦫