Best promo of all time.

ill throw Punk on the list but that's personal bias. makes a nice top 5 though.
even though as an objective fan i can recognize that that man was gold on the mic. i just think Flair, Dusty, Piper & Rock were better in history.

Mick Foley's 7 minute anti-hardcore promo aimed at Tommy Dreamer from the 10/3/95 episode of Hardcore TV:
You know I'd like to kind of apologize for my behavior, I'm embarrassed. Certainly I feel a little stupid about the way I acted here out on this show a few weeks ago. Because I get a little emotional when I talk about wrestling because wrestling's been my livelihood for the past ten years. It's enabled me to live out my childhood dream. So for me to come out on a show such as the ECW television program and badmouth the wrestlers there, well… I'm sorry. But I think in order to understand what's going around my head and going through it, you have to understand where I came from and what my goals were when I got into wrestling. You see back in 1985 there was a program on 20/20 that, that challenged the wrestling industry, kinda portrayed it in a negative light. And Tommy if you're listening, try to understand that I was just about the world's biggest wrestling fan. And for me to stand in front of that television set and see people running down a business that I loved and held dear… even though I new very little bit about it. To see my friends laughing at me saying "that's what you want to get involved in?" And that night I went to bed, NOT WITH VISIONS OF SUGARPLUMS DANCING IN MY HEAD, BUT OF BROKEN BONES, OF BATTERED BODIES, OF BLOODIED CORPSES, saying to myself, "if it's the last thing I do, if I have to hold myself up for a human sacrifice… the world will respect professional wrestling." Oh and that dream came true, yes. I've sacrificed myself for the past ten years AND LEFT THE BETTER PARTS OF MY PAST LYING ON CONCRETE FLOORS… from Africa to Asia to South America to right into the middle of the ECW arena. And what's it really done? Where have we really come to? Lying in a hospital bed in Munich, Germany, watching my ear being thrown out into a garbage can NOT BEING ABLE TO TAKE IT BACK ON THE TRIP HOME BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THE GERMAN WORD… for formaldehyde. And having a nurse walk into my room… looking at that piece of my body that's laying in the bottom of the garbage and saying, "EST AUL ESPAUCHEIL", which means, "it's all a big joke". EXCUSE ME! I DIDN'T KNOW! DO YOU OPEN UP THE LUNGS OF A SMOKER AND SAY "OH MY GOLLY, I THOUGHT SMOKING WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD FOR YOU!". DO YOU OPEN UP TERRY FUNK'S NON-FUNCTIONING LIVER AND SAY "OH, I DIDN’T KNOW THAT FOUR DECADES OF HEAVY DRINKING TOOK THIS KIND OF TOLL!". So if they show that much respect for the patient… WHAT MADE ME ANY DIFFERENT? Because I was a wrestler and professional wrestling will never be respected, no matter have many teeth I lose, no matter how many ears I lose, no matter how many BRIAN CELLS HAVE TO DIE! And so it comes down to the point where it's just not worth it. It's not worth it. And Tommy Dreamer you've got to start looking realistically at wrestling as a way to make a living. Nothing more and nothing less. And as long as it's strictly business, then you may as well be cuddled in the welcoming arms of World Championship Wrestling. BECAUSE ECW FANS WILL BE THE DEATH OF YOU! You see, they realized – and they were smarter than any of us – that *they* ruled ECW wrestling, not us. What happened, Tommy? You came back from All Japan Wrestling with your trunks and your boots and said, "by golly, I'm gonna wrestle". Did Giant Baba hand you a dozen eggs and say, "HIT THESE ON JUMBO TSURUTA'S HEAD"? YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO THE PROFESSION, TOMMY! You're becoming a damn fool! And I can't sit back there and take it, because I've got a moral obligation. You see, when I survey the wasteland that is professional wrestling... Tommy try to understand. I am but a failed experiment in human sociology, and I can accept that. But never in my sickest dreams did I imagine that there would be other people taking dives onto concrete floors, committing human suicide on my behalf, like I'm the patron saint of the sick sons-a-bitches. Is that all I stand for, Tommy? Is that all I stand for, to sit in an arena where J.T. Smith lands head-first on the concrete and hear the fans say "YOU [BLEEPED] UP!" WELL [BLEEP] YOU!!! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? WE'RE NOT A WRESTLING ORGANIZATION ANYMORE! WE'RE THE WORLD'S DAMN BIGGEST PUPPET SHOW! AND I'LL BE DAMNED IF I'M GONNA STAND IN THAT ARENA AND LET YOU CALL ME MY MATCH! One, two, three, JUMP! One, two, three, JUMP! Well not me, because I'm nobody's stooge. And Tommy Dreamer if you had a little bit of pride or a little bit of common sense you'd understand that those people don't love you… THEY LAUGH AT YOU! You took the worst beatings the sport's ever seen and they STILL laughed in your face. And I stood there with my arm around you six months ago and endorsed you saying "He's hardcore. He's hardcore". Well for that I deserve to die a terrible, painful death, Tommy. Because I feel responsible. And I go to bed at night… AND I'M NOT SURE WHERE I'M GONNA SPEND MY ETERNITY. And you Tommy… you're my salvation. Because by delivering you to a better organization where you can be appreciated, loved, and held with just the littlest amount of respect in the Turner Family. Then maybe there's a chance for me too. So please, Tommy, for my sake, think it over. Because a "yes" to Cactus Jack would mean a great deal to me. And a "no", well… I'd have to take that as you're putting a big OK stamp of approval… ON MY ETERNAL DAMNATION! I'M COUNTING ON YOU, YOU LITTLE SELFISH -----!! DON'T MAKE ME HURT YOU, BECAUSE I CAN! DON'T MAKE ME DO IT, AND IF I DO, AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, IT WON'T BE IN FRONT OF THOSE LITTLE SCUMBAGS AT THE ECW ARENA… it will just be me and you, Tommy. And you won't know when it's coming… and you won't where. SO UNLESS YOU WISH TO DAMN ME TO THE DEPTHS OF HELL, answer my call and say "Okay, Cactus, you win. I'll put on the suspenders, I'll groom that moustache and I’ll call Uncle Eric and say 'Count me in'." Because not only would you be doing yourself a big favor; not only would you be helping your life, but you'd be saving mine. You'd be saving mine. YOU BE SAVING… mine
(there might be inaccuracies, I just pasted this from somewhere, the video is no longer on youtube, without a doubt the greatest promo in ECW history, and maybe even wrestling history)

You know it's so hard for me to sit back in the studio looking at a guy out here hollering my name...

I don't think i can answer this.. there have been SO many damned good promos over the years..

dude I was THERE!!!! I'll never forget it... WCW monday nitro in Dallas Texas. myonly nitro show I ever gotto go to.

I remember hearing this and getting a good laugh... since i could not see any screen from my seats... we were in nosebleeds but it was worth it!

I went to so many Nitro's between here and Georgia but honestly nothing will ever top the ones that had Flair promos during them where he was standing at the top of the ramp with mean gene.

Also.. Its great how so many people are just posting promos instead of reading what I said.

In all seriousness, this is my best promo of the PG era.

Thank you.

This was meant to be a discussion on who people felt kept people hang everytime they had a mic. Not who cut the best promo ever.

I've enjoyed a lot of harpers promos. I think the best is yet to come when it comes to Bray and Owens.

I agree though its must see TV if dusty or heyman are talking.