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Pipebomb vs Math

  • Pipebomb 1810
  • Math 3252
  • 2024-03-27
  • 5062 votes
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OLI: Vote what you think is objectively the best wrestling promo of all time.

Do the right thing.

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Comments

Franklin

Steiner Math is the OBVIOUS choice

FelKat

Pipebomb defines C M Punk. Stiener math defines pro wrestling. Sorry Oli.

Donald Gold

Not Oli trying to influence the vote by saying "Do the right thing".

Geraint Bowen

The pipebomb is just Joey Styles’ “I Quit” Promo with added Colt Cabana That’s the hill I’ll die on! #SteinerMath4Life

jdlznpack

lol guys it’s math you know the Answer

Andrew Millward

‘I’m here to make a good… meta… thing’ -The Pipebomb

Daniel Ault

Luke was very convincing in his argument

Oliver Drake

Pipe bomb is the correct answer. But Math will win because banter.

Jared

The numbers don't lie, folks

Misha Sumra

The polls don’t lie, and they spell disaster for the Pipe Bomb

Sean Furlong

I think we will look back in a post apocalyptic world at today and say we could have stopped Luke Owen from radicalizing the world but we all chose chaos.

Woffubett

I can think of multiple promos that Steiner had that’s better than the pipe bomb!

Sleepy Magpie

The Pipebomb was the right promo at the right time but honestly, I wasn't there for it and I hear it now and it doesn't move me. Steiner Maths, however, is timeless. Every listen, every time it's quoted is pure joy.

Nick Devine

Massive Boaty McBoatface energy in this poll

Barny

In the words of Ron Burgundy "Steiner Math is Pro Wrestling. Boom"

General Jimmy G

Math for the lols... That's a sentence I'd never expect to say since I was a child. Plus oli breakdown for the win haha 😄

Brett Braud

Steiner math leaves a lasting impact. I can quote that in everyday life (jokingly) and it fits contextually. Kinda hard to do that with the pipe bomb promo

James Paine

Oli now preparing his "You People" promo he’s going to cut on all of us for this.

Juan Gabriel

The Oli breakdown is gonna be epic 😂

Adam Pearson

The pipebomb changed wrestling for a generation, Steiner Maths is just Scott Steiner acting like a characters of himself while people look on, getting evermore confused.

Franknfoot

I show people Steiner math all the time. My professors, math teachers, friends… everyone loves that promo so much. I show pipebomb? Crickets. Nowadays it doesn’t even hold up really anymore anyway. Sorry Oli. Cry me a river

Josh Collier

All I'm saying is without the pipebomb we wouldn't have gotten such a great ending to season 1 of the wrestling news.

Hasan Mahmood

When you add Kurt Angle to the mix, then the Pipebomb has only 33⅓ chance of winning the poll. Steiner Maths now has 66⅔% chance of winning, because Kurt Angle knows he can't beat Steiner Maths and he isn't even going to try.

Jeremy

Neither. Pipebomb is sufficiently overrated that Steiner Math gets my vote. (It wasn't even the best promo of it's own feud.)

Rob James

Pipebomb makes me feel sad remembering how awesome it was and in just 2-3 months Punk was asking HHH to wear his blazer on Raw. Steiner maths bamboozled me but is just genius and always makes me smile

Lawson Douvier

This is genuinely difficult. Pipe bomb is absolutely legendary and amazing, but Steiner math is absolute joy. I still pop every time I see it, and I can’t say that about the pipe bomb. Pipebomb was more important, though. I think I’m on Luke’s team for this.

Thomas

When we talk about "of all time" then that includes things that have come since. And I think a lot of the issues with Punk, how he's handled himself, etc. have tarnished what the Pipebomb was. I watched it before he came back to wrestling and, wow. Amazing. But since he came back? Not as much. Cody even torpedoed the promo by (truthfully) letting CM Punk know that he's more Punk than Punk. Steiner math, though? It's honestly gotten better. It's not bad in the way where people roll their eyes, even non-wrestling fans, but bad in a way that brings a lot of joy. And the separation from the context and feud and all that have honestly made it better. It's better by itself than it was in context. But, in context, especially in the grander context up until now, the Pipebomb isn't as hard-hitting or relevant.

Jake Bell

"Hey, Colt Cabana" with a friendly wave alone cuts the knees out of the pipebomb. In that light, the fact that Dusty's heiney remained just a little big until the day he died and his son is still referencing it (the promo, not the big heiney) in his theme song makes that promo from the 80s age better than the pipebomb.

Will Campbell

The Pipebomb is great, but in the ensuing decade-plus certain things have tarnished it and its greatness. There is no such issue with Steiner Math. That promo is absolutely mad, but the math works out, and one of the best parts of it is the fact that Petey Williams is doing his damnedest to not just bust out laughing the entire promo.

ItzSmashley

Steiner math is everything I want in my entertainment. Ridiculous

BrokenGhost217

I think Luke’s logic is honestly pretty fair. CM Punk is a great promo cutter there is zero question about that. He has many great promos through multiple companies. Although, Scott Steiner has also been in multiple promotions and I cannot remember a single one of his promos, except for Steiner Maths. This man single-handedly turned the worst promo into one of the most memorable, for all the wrong reasons I’ll give you that but memorable nonetheless, things I’ve ever seen.

Elliot Jay O'Neill

I would love it if this led to a Wrestle Debates style show where the Wrestletalk team debate various wrestling topics

Adam Gallick

Luke is right, as proven with his sound logic and reasoning. The Pipe Bomb only gets worse in hindsight, because Punk was just blowing smoke, he ment none of what he said... Cody pointing out that he done all those things instead of Punk just hammered it home

Andrew the Elder

I wouldn't call either of them THE best, but while I personally think the Pipe Bomb is overrated, I routinely re-watch Steiner Math every year or two. So it gets my vote! #LukeIsGod

That Welsh Guy

Well since the pipebomb turned out to be an overly scripted dud, Math absolutely blows it out of the water. Honestly it wouldn't have even made my top 10

Redrum972

The loser of the poll should have to do the winning promo.

Nick Smith

I was originally on Olli's side, but the more I though about it... Luke's right. I've never shown any of my friends the pipebomb. I show everyone who hasn't seen it Steiner Math. I can't quote more than a few lines of the Pipebomb. I can recite Steiner Math verbatim. It may not be for the right reasons, but it is definitely the most memorable, iconic, and therefore best promo ever.

Chad Gregory

Everyone has heard of the pipebomb not everyone has heard of Steiner Math’s, including me until all this started.

Nacht Bogen

Im doing my part for math

Square root of negative one

I vote for Pipebomb only because of grammar. MJF doing Steiner Math as a promo on Joe makes it close though

Jake Bell

You are grossly overestimating the reach of the pipebomb. Maybe "everyone who voluntarily opts to pay money to support a free wrestling news YouTube channel" has heard of the pipebomb, but many casual fans don't know what it is or have only heard of it because others mention it but never watched it.

Micah Newby

The right promo is winning, Oli, and that spells disaster for you at Saccafice

Josh Gionet

Pipebomb is a legendary promo in the wrestling community but the maths promo transcends into worldwide meme culture. I know people that know the math promo that have never watched wrestling in the their life let alone know who cm punk or what the pipebomb is.

GoldenRK9

Oli they’re just fucking with you lol chill

Glenn Dallas

Steiner Math. Pipebomb is famous in wrestling circles, but Steiner Math has been referenced by other companies on Twitter. I think Steiner Math has greater reach.

Dr. Judge, Private Eye

The Pipe Bomb is like 'Mania 30: people ignore the fact that a chunk of it isn't very good (he promotes the PPV as part of his 'shoot') because of what it meant at the time. Steiner Math on the other hand, only gets better the more you listen and examine it.

BC_Auron

Pipebomb's impact was crazy high at the time, but was fleeting, and has been tarnished by many things over the years (didn't do any of it after leaving, FOX show, then actually returning to WWE) to mean almost nothing now. Steiner Maths was small at the time, but grown to meme status and continues to have an impact now. Ask people who know nothing about wrestling about details from both, and which are they more likely to recognize? Maths Oli... Maths...

Swizlestik 97

I love both of them but simply put math over pipebomb… like luke said if you say promos in TNA everyone thinks of this one

Scott Robinson

It's going to be absolutely meant to be if Maths gets 66 2/3%

Jake Bell

Oli set up this poll trying to get the sympy of the people, but he'll get no sympy from me!

Thaddeus Wenger

Two points: first, this is genuinely tough. On one hand, I know EVERY word of Maths. On the other, Pipebomb emotionally moves me. Second, IT ISNT “SENOR JOE”!!!! Stop saying that. He says “See McJoe”

Chocobo_Sage

Pipebomb was great, can't remember a single line of it. Steiner Math I can damn near quote the whole thing and so can most other wrestling fans. It's iconic

Vagisil36

Gotta disagree with both, still think jericho's armbar promo was the best, but maths 600% over the pipebomb

Mark Brett

The Pipebomb is even more relevant now than it was when Punk cut it. He laid out everything wrong with Vince McMahon's WWE, every reason why I already wasn't watching it anymore when he said it. And now, considering the recent allegations, AND how much better their programming is without McMahon? Punk was a goddamn prophet. Don't get me wrong. Steiner Math is more fun, and I do love it. But better than the Pipebomb? No way.

Kyle Sowden

Steiner Math > AJ Lee's pipe bomb > Punks pipe bomb

TEi HasPants

The pipe bomb is one of the most crucial promos, if not *the* most crucial promo, in all of sports entertainment. Steiner Math is funny as balls. Both are very deserving of being considered the best promo in wrestling history.

Evan Steinberg

I'm voting out of protest that whose your daddy Montreal was not in anyone's top 10