Bah! They're both mere preliminary bums compared to this dude: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvmksHTzfpM[/ame]
Hey, he's not the one Degeneration X of the WWE were lampooning when they got on the microphone to say, "LLLLLets, get RRRREADYYYYY to SUCK IT!"
Both suck compare to the great Billy Jordan. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R7IMsOiftE[/ame] Look at the pose, the strong speech of let her rip. Its a good thing this was slient because if this had sound all our ears would be bleeding.
Cheers, B. Here, he cracks up the stoic Freddie Brown prior to Duran-Palomino. (Merriman certainly precipitated two classic performances in these episodes. How can you let yourself be upstaged by the announcer in a situation like that?): [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2S8ibYJ0Dw[/ame]
Getting back to the thread question though, the second to last paragraph of this article on the art of ring announcing makes it pretty clear that Buffer is superior to Addie: http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ys-maxbox121207 Michael Buffer did trademark the catch phrase that he became famous for, but he originally used it early in his ring career on ESPN as a tribute to Sal Marciano, who always said it before the main event on those Top Rank Boxing promotions. (Sal's own intended catch phrase was, "Good night, sweet prince!" whenever the referee completed a ten count. Some in the boxing press took him to task for this though, because Horatio originally said it not as Hamlet goes to sleep in Shakespeare's classic play, but as he dies.)
Still partial to ring announcer Harry Ballo's trade mark salute to the fighters: "MAY THE VICTORIOUS PARTICIPANT EMERGE TRUIMPHANT!