I wanna say this without sounding like a d***,” Kody Mommaerts starts. His job, after all, involves selecting the right words. And though the stakes are lower on a Zoom call with The Independent than when a billion-dollar company entrusts him with a live microphone, the ring announcer still considers his words – and delivery – carefully.
In this case, it is all to do with humility, and his concern that an analogy for his career might be misinterpreted as arrogance. “I used to play video games as a kid,” says Mommaerts, widely known as “Big Mo”. “I don’t play much anymore, but there was a phrase called ‘speedrunning’. ‘How quickly can I beat this game?’ In a way... I’ve kind of speedrun announcing. I don’t want that to come across as d***ish!”
