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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:The WWE Spanish Announcers Marcello and Carlos, in their natural habitat.]] |
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4 | ->''"I think Hugo and Carlos better vamoose!"'' |
5 | -->-- '''Wrestling/JimRoss''', predicting the inevitable |
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7 | A ProfessionalWrestling Trope, the Spanish Announcers Table is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin naturally]], where the broadcasters for the [[UsefulNotes/SpanishLanguage Spanish-speaking]] audience sit to do their commentary. The one in Wrestling/{{WWE}} is currently manned by lead commentator Marcello Rodríguez and color commentator Jerry Soto, and [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW's]] includes Dasha Gonzalez, Alex Abrahantes, and Alvaro Riojas, while the one in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling is manned by Héctor “Moody Jack” Meléndez & Wrestling/{{Konnan}} (for select [=PPVs=]). |
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9 | More importantly, ever since [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] threw Wrestling/BretHart through it at the 1995 ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'', as a rule, the table gets demolished by a wrestling move at least [[Main/OncePerEpisode once a pay-per-view]]. It has been confirmed that, unlike the English team's, the table is specially designed to collapse upon impact (something that Wrestling/MickFoley credits with saving his life when Wrestling/TheUndertaker famously threw him onto it from the top of the Hell in the Cell cage during their 1998 Wrestling/KingOfTheRing match). Presumably, [[CListFodder it gets targeted]] so as not to interrupt the flow of the more lucrative English commentary. [[note]] Wrestling/JimCornette has stated that Wrestling/VinceMcMahon mandated the wrestlers not use the English announcers table for fear of disrupting the pay-per-view feed.[[/note]] Kind of a wrestling in-joke, it has gotten to the point where if a wrestler seems to be setting up for a move on the regular announcers table (such as [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] in his match against Wrestling/ChrisJericho at the 2002 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble''), he will be directed instead to the other one. Wrestling/CMPunk also {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this during the time he was on commentary; when Wrestling/JohnCena put Wrestling/HeathSlater through the English table he was sitting at, he reacted thusly: "This is not the Spanish announce table!" Outside of its regular use in pay-per-views, if the English announce crew even [[{{Foreshadowing}} brings up the existence]] of the Spanish announce table during a televised show, it's a safe bet that somebody will be going through it before the night is over. |
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11 | During the Wrestling/AttitudeEra, former WWE commentators Hugo Savinovich and Carlos Cabrera would {{lampshade|Hanging}} this trope mercilessly, acting surprised or even ''pleased'' if they went through a whole show with the table intact. |
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13 | When the Spanish announcer's table isn't ringside, usually this role gets taken over by the BShow's table. And in the rare instance that there's a third table for another language, it's even ''more'' doomed than the Spanish one. |
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15 | In [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]], the timekeeper's table has taken on this role, due to the commentary team/s being located at the top of the ramp and not at ringside. If there's a table spot, it's going to be the timekeeper's table getting destroyed. Or they'll just put a random table at ringside with no attempt to explain why it's there and hope no one besides Wrestling/JimCornette notices. Completely averted in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, which didn't have a Spanish table to break, in addition to the commentators usually being somewhere near the stage[[note]]And using a metal desk rather than a wooden table[[/note]] rather than at ringside by the time table smashing became fashionable. |
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17 | Of course, the Spanish announcer's table has played other roles through the years ... or more specifically, the Spanish announcers. |
18 | * In 1987, the Islanders (a heel Polynesian tag team of [[Wrestling/{{Meng}} Haku]] and Tama) were feuding in the WWF with Latino favorite Wrestling/TitoSantana, who had publicly made several comments disapproving of Haku and Tama's badass behavior toward friend Wrestling/RickMartel. After a match, the Islanders -- along with manager [[Wrestling/BobbyHeenan Bobby "the Brain" Heenan]] -- walked over to the Spanish announcer's table to confront Santana and -- naturally -- beat him to within an inch of his life. Wrestling/PedroMorales (who was still with the WWF at this time) tried to assist Santana but also got beaten; an unnamed Spanish announcer (presumably the lead announcer) got shoved but nothing more happened to him before officials swarmed the area to herd Haku and Tama to the back. |
19 | * The Wrestling/{{TNA}} Spanish table was LAX territory during their existence, with Wrestling/{{Konnan}} serving dual roles as color commentator and wrestler. TNA also had a tag team called the Spanish Announce Team, possibly inspired by this trope. |
20 | * In 2012, the [[Wrestling/ThreeMB 3MB]] tag team (Wrestling/HeathSlater, Wrestling/JinderMahal and Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre) started mocking Carlos and Marcelo in a racist style, only to begin a feud with Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio for script reasons. |
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22 | WWE themselves put together a nice collage of some of the more famous instances of Spanish announcer's table destruction [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6dN6V4dAU here]]. |
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24 | Not to be confused with the TagTeam called The Spanish Announce Team or The S.A.T. for short. |
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26 | ----- |
27 | -->''"[[Podcast/DrunkenPeasants Is that]] [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Kane?]]"'' |
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