Morrissey Wrestling Reference?!

[anotherordinaryboy]

So I was watching the WWE wrestling company's ECW show on the ScyFy Network (it might be fake, but it's really fun to watch), and a british wrestler, William Regal, was fighting. The commentator called him 'the ringleader of the tormentors'. Gotta be the first time wrestling and Morrissey have been mentioned in the same sentence!

 

[Mozza220559]

Not to detract from the question but your signature should be...

"I was a small, fat child in a welfare house, there was only one thing I ever dreamed about, fate has just handed it to me...Whoopie..."

Sorry.

I'll go now.

 

[anotherordinaryboy]

When Morrissey first started performing the song live, before its physical release, 'welfare' was replaced with 'council'. I like that better because it's British and not American. That is all.

 

[bobalmighty]

Matt Striker (The commentator you mentioned) has made a few Morrissey references in his commentary since he started.

 

[Pokey]

Striker has indeed, and I believe William Regal mentioned a few years ago in a magazine interview that he was a Morrissey fan so perhaps he had something to do with having that nickname spoken of him?

 

[northernleech]

When Morrissey first started performing the song live, before its physical release, 'welfare' was replaced with 'council'. I like that better because it's British and not American. That is all.

hear ! hear ! i was mildly peeved that the recorded version used "welfare" , but when he played it recently he had gone back to "council" . Americanisms are a touchy subject with me - my son , through watchin family guy/simpsons/disney channel etc now peppers his speech with them. Nothing against y'all but moz is quintessentialy english and he should remain so ! SO THERE !

 

[Billtwasreallynowt]

hear ! hear ! i was mildly peeved that the recorded version used "welfare" , but when he played it recently he had gone back to "council" . Americanisms are a touchy subject with me - my son , through watchin family guy/simpsons/disney channel etc now peppers his speech with them. Nothing against y'all but moz is quintessentialy english and he should remain so ! SO THERE !

Quintessential?
Whilst Moz has his charms, he certainly isn't quintessential at anything except perchance self deprecation!