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American professional person wrestling commentator, podcaster, and sports announcer

Tony Schiavone
Tony Schiavone (cropped).jpg
Nativity name Noah Anthony Schiavone
Born (1957-11-07) Nov 7, 1957 (historic period 64) [one]
Craigsville, Virginia, U.S.
Alma mater James Madison University
Spouse(due south)

Lois Schiavone

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(m. 1981)​
Children 5
Professional wrestling career
Ring proper noun(s) Fuego two
Billed superlative five ft 10 in (178 cm)[2]
Billed weight 187 lb (85 kg)[two]
Debut 1983

Noah Anthony Schiavone [ citation needed ] (, shÉ™-VON-ee; born November 7, 1957) is an American sports announcer, professional person wrestling commentator and podcaster currently signed with All Elite Wrestling (AEW) as a play-past-play commentator and senior producer. He has previously worked for Jim Crockett Promotions, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), Earth Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Major League Wrestling (MLW). In addition to his work in wrestling, Schiavone has besides worked as a broadcaster for the Gwinnett Braves/Stripers of Pocket-sized League Baseball game and Georgia Bulldogs football game.

In 2013, WWE noted that, "At the tiptop of the Monday Night State of war, veteran broadcaster Tony Schiavone's voice was as vital to the onscreen product of World Championship Wrestling as Jim Ross' Oklahoma growl was to WWE."[3]

In 2021, Schiavone appear a Kickstarter entrada for a biographical graphic novel titled Butts in Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story. Tony Schiavone can be heard on his podcast What Happened When? with Conrad Thompson.[ commendation needed ]

Dissemination career [edit]

Professional wrestling [edit]

Jim Crockett Promotions (1983–1989) [edit]

Schiavone circulate alongside David Crockett starting in 1985 until 1989 on Superstation TBS. Together they hosted NWA'south World Championship Wrestling live in forepart of a small in-studio audience in Atlanta. The testify aired on TBS on Saturdays at 9am and 6:05pm and was used every bit a vehicle to promote alive NWA arena events and introduce their stars to a national audience as TBS was the premier nationally broadcast cable station at the time.

World Wrestling Federation (1989–1990) [edit]

He was signed by Vince McMahon'south WWF for a one-year contract from April 1989 through April 1990.[4] During his time with the company, he was most notable for being the main play-past-play announcer for their SummerSlam 1989 and Royal Rumble 1990 pay-per-views alongside Jesse "The Body" Ventura. Other than Ventura (whom he would too frequently partner later in WCW), Schiavone commentated alongside others including Lord Alfred Hayes, Gorilla Monsoon, Hillbilly Jim, Rod Trongard, and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Backside the scenes, Tony produced numerous home videos for Coliseum Video.

Schiavone returned presently afterward to WCW, the sometime Crockett promotion by and then owned by media mogul Ted Turner. However, he has remained on skillful terms with the McMahon family in the years since. Years later on leaving the WWF he admitted that doing then was his biggest career mistake, and that he asked McMahon for his chore dorsum equally presently equally he realized what the Turner Dissemination System had done to the quondam Jim Crockett Promotions upon acquiring it. McMahon turned him downwards, so that Schiavone would non accept to move his young family unit again, merely was open to working with him in the future.[5]

World Championship Wrestling (1990–2001) [edit]

Schiavone became the lead voice for WCW'southward flagship program, Monday Nitro. He likewise served equally the lead announcer of Thunder, typically working alongside Mike Tenay, Bobby Heenan, Larry Zbyszko, and later with Mark Madden and Scott Hudson. Earlier the advent of Nitro and Thunder, Schiavone hosted WCW Saturday Dark and WCW WorldWide. He made an appearance in the flick Gear up to Rumble. When WCW's chief avails were bought by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF/now WWE) in 2001, he was non retained by WWE.

Total Nonstop Activity Wrestling (2003) [edit]

Two years later afterwards WCW airtight down, Schiavone made an advent in NWA: Total Nonstop Activity (NWA: TNA, later on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) in 2003, during i of their weekly pay-per-views. Schiavone interrupted an interview with Goldylocks and Percy Pringle and proceeded to cut a worked shoot promo in which he insulted both of them.[half-dozen] Mike Tenay, TNA'south lead broadcaster and Schiavone'due south former WCW colleague, then entered the ring and the ii got into an argument over their careers and what happened during the last days of WCW, where both men lost their jobs. The promo concluded when Vince Russo entered the band and promised Schiavone a job with him. However, nothing ever came of that equally Schiavone but fabricated one more than appearance in TNA, which was taped that same night after the offset appearance.[vii]

Major League Wrestling (2017–2019) [edit]

On October 5, 2017, Schiavone returned to professional wrestling at the inaugural issue of the resurrected Major League Wrestling (MLW).[8] At the prove, Schiavone provided colour commentary for the effect'southward matches. He has since continued to provide his commentary work for MLW's telly show, MLW Fusion. After taking a suspension in early on 2019 from commentating due to conflicting schedules, he returned in July 2019.[9] Schiavone noted on the November xx, 2019 Clash of the Champions Thirteen episode of What Happened When with Conrad Thompson that he would no longer be actualization for Major League Wrestling (MLW).

All Elite Wrestling (2019–present) [edit]

A color photograph of two men and a cameraman in a professional wrestling ring

In August 2019, it was reported that Schiavone had signed a contract with All Elite Wrestling. It is expected that Schiavone will go on to piece of work with MLW while working for AEW.[10] It was announced that Schiavone would bring together AEW as a commentator. Schiavone besides began working as a senior producer for AEW alive events.[11]

On March 25, 2020, due to significant delays with non-audiences, Schiavone filled in on play-by-play commentary for Jim Ross and Excalibur on AEW Dynamite with other substitute announcers Cody, Kenny Omega, Filly Cabana and Chris Jericho.

Football and baseball [edit]

After wrestling, Schiavone became the morning sports anchor for both WDUN in Gainesville and WSB-AM in Atlanta simultaneously, despite the 2 stations having different owners (WDUN has a partnership with Cox Media Group, which owns WSB-TV and WSB-AM.) Schiavone also has washed morning time sports reports for Cox sis stations WHIO AM/FM in Dayton, Ohio. Additionally, Schiavone is a writer for the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network and produced the Best of the Bulldogs, which won the AP Laurels for Best Sports Plan in 2004.[12] Along with being a writer for the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network, Schiavone as well works 1 of the post game talk shows on the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network for dwelling house and away games alongside former University of Georgia quarterback David Greene.[13]

After a few years of work with the Braves system including pre-game and mail-game radio coverage, and also spot duty every bit an official scorer for games, Schiavone returned to play-by-play duties on radio when the Gwinnett Braves began their first flavor in Lawrenceville, Georgia as Atlanta's AAA-level affiliate for the 2009–10 season.

Following cutbacks at WSB that resulted in Schiavone being let go in 2015, Schiavone took a role-fourth dimension job at Starbucks to supplement his income while continuing to practice other broadcasting work. Schiavone has stated he had no shame in working there and praised Starbucks for their excellent health insurance coverage for their employees. His time at Starbucks would be alluded to on multiple occasions by Britt Baker on AEW programming.[14]

Schiavone is an avid higher football game fan

Podcasting career [edit]

On January 30, 2017, Schiavone began hosting the What Happened When? podcast with co-host Conrad Thompson on MLW Radio discussing stories from Schiavone's time with Jim Crockett Promotions, his stint in the WWF and his WCW tenure. Schiavone as well co-hosts the "Pro Wrestling Wednesday" podcast with lifelong wrestling fan Beau Le Blanc for WZGC FM 92.nine The Game in Atlanta, a station in which he often does fill up-in work for their sports flash updates.[fifteen] On February xx, 2020, All Aristocracy Wrestling and TNT launched AEW Unrestricted, a weekly podcast hosted by Schiavone and referee Aubrey Edwards.[16]

Controversies [edit]

Mick Foley incident [edit]

An infamous incident involving Schiavone occurred on the January 4, 1999, Nitro. Nitro was airing live against the pre-taped WWF Raw is War on USA Network and was to characteristic a rematch betwixt WCW Globe Heavyweight Champion Kevin Nash and former champion Bill Goldberg from Starrcade, where Nash had ended Goldberg'southward undefeated streak and taken his title under controversial circumstances. The Nitro episode was also the first appearance of "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan since he announced his "retirement" from professional wrestling on the Thanksgiving 1998 edition of The This evening Show with Jay Leno. Meanwhile, Raw was to feature Mick Foley, who was wrestling as Flesh at the time and who had previously worked for WCW equally Cactus Jack, winning his beginning WWF Title in a friction match against The Stone. However, at the time Raw was taped while Nitro was alive, and it was a do for WCW and executive producer Eric Bischoff to spoil pre-taped Raw episodes, by telling the WCW audience the results of the Raw show, and not give fans reasons to change the channel.

According to Foley, who wrote almost the incident in the first chapter of his volume Foley Is Proficient (and the Real Globe is Faker than Wrestling), this was to exist a pivotal dark for WCW as people believed that WCW, whose record streak of 84 sequent Monday night wins in the ratings had been snapped by Raw in April 1998 and had merely 8 head-to-head wins after that, would turn the ratings tide back to them and potentially take over the lead in the Monday Night Wars.[17] During the show Schiavone spoiled the result of Raw's main event by saying that Foley, the former Cactus Jack, would win, sarcastically remarking "That's gonna put some butts in the seats".

Foley was genuinely upset by what he had heard and telephoned Schiavone to talk about information technology. When Schiavone called Foley back, he told Foley that Bischoff had ordered him to reveal Foley's title win over the air. The strategy, however, backfired on Bischoff. Almost immediately afterwards Schiavone spoiled Foley's championship win, 600,000 households switched from Nitro to Raw, to watch Foley win the title. This was enough to give the WWF the ratings win for the night, with a 5.7 final rating to Nitro's v.0. WCW's ratings never saw more than than a five.0 going head-to-caput with Raw again and Nitro's rating sank below 5.0 and by the terminate of the yr was struggling to stay above 3.0.[18] [xix]

Bobby Heenan rivalry [edit]

In a 2002 interview, Schiavone was criticized by Bobby Heenan who claimed that Schiavone would hibernate finishes and angles from himself and fellow Nitro commentator Mike Tenay during broadcasts, claiming Schiavone's central to life is "knowledge is power".[20] Longtime wrestling broadcaster Gene Okerlund concurred with Heenan, and claimed that, while he liked Schiavone and did non have many problems with him, "Tony was the consummate politician" and "Tony watched out for Tony and in doing so, had a tendency to bury people along the fashion".[21] 1 tense incident happened on the Nitro post-obit the death of Heenan'south longtime all-time friend Gorilla Monsoon, over Schiavone'southward alleged objection to mentioning Monsoon on-air (equally he had never worked for WCW). Heenan was ultimately immune to speak in award of Monsoon, admitting only a pocket-size statement. Appearing on The Ross Study in 2014, Schiavone stated that he never objected to Heenan mentioning Monsoon, only that he asked Heenan if he had first asked WCW president Eric Bischoff nearly doing so. Schiavone accepted responsibleness for the collapse of his relationship with Heenan, and said of Heenan's criticism of him: "I deserve it".[22]

Awards and accomplishments [edit]

  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter
    • Worst Telly Journalist (1999, 2000)[23]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Built-in in 1957 per Intelius check of "Noah A. Schiavone" giving age of 50 as of June 29. 2008
  2. ^ a b "Tony Schiavone Cagematch profile". CAGEMATCH - The Internet Wrestling Database. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
  3. ^ 14 Superstars you didn't know appeared in WWE: Tony Schiavone. WWE. February fifteen, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2013.
  4. ^ "Tony Schiavone On Joining WWE, If He Would Return, If Vince McMahon Produced Him, The End Of WCW - WrestlingInc.com". WrestlingInc.com . Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  5. ^ "Tony Schiavone Says He Immediately Regretted Leaving WWE, Reveals Vince McMahon'south Response - WrestlingInc.com". WrestlingInc.com . Retrieved June 4, 2018.
  6. ^ "youtube.com: Tony Schiavone Heel Turn In TNA". Archived from the original on December xiii, 2021. Retrieved Oct 30, 2008.
  7. ^ "youtube.com: Tony Schiavone Every bit A Heel In TNA". Archived from the original on April 9, 2017. Retrieved December 27, 2010.
  8. ^ Tony Schiavone Returns to Wrestling for MLW'southward 'One-Shot' - Sports Illustrated
  9. ^ "Tony Schiavone returns to the circulate booth this summertime". June 19, 2019.
  10. ^ "Tony Schiavone Reportedly "Locked Into A Deal" With All Elite Wrestling". prowrestlingsheet.com. August 19, 2019. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  11. ^ "AEW Signs Tony Schiavone To Multi-Year Deal, His Position Revealed". wrestlingnewssource.com. August 26, 2019.
  12. ^ "wsbradio.com: Inside wsbradio.com Tony Schiavone". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September seven, 2007.
  13. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007. Retrieved September 7, 2007. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as championship (link)
  14. ^ "Tony Schiavone was forced to take a 'part-time gig at Starbucks' before AEW job". July 12, 2020.
  15. ^ "PWW: Pro Wrestling Wednesday". 92.9 The Game. April thirteen, 2018. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  16. ^ "TNT and All-Elite Wrestling Launch 'AEW: Unrestricted' Podcast". multichannel.com. MultiChannel News. Feb 20, 2020. Retrieved Feb 20, 2020.
  17. ^ Foley, Mick. Foley Is Adept. ReganBooks, 1999. ISBN 0-06-039300-ix
  18. ^ Variable, X (August 5, 2012). "12 Things That Killed WCW Between the Fingerpoke and Vince Russo". Bleacher Written report . Retrieved April 10, 2020.
  19. ^ OSW Reviews. "Tv set Ratings 1999". OSW Reviews . Retrieved April x, 2020.
  20. ^ Feinstein, Rob (producer) (2002). Bobby Heenan: Shoot Interview (DVD). RF Video.
  21. ^ Feinstein, Rob (producer) (2006). Gene Okerlund: Shoot Interview (DVD). RF Video.
  22. ^ "Tony Schiavone". The Ross Report. Episode 28. August 29, 2014. PodcastOne.
  23. ^ Meltzer, Dave (Jan 26, 2011). "Biggest effect of the year: The 2011 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards Issue". Wrestling Observer Newsletter. Campbell, CA: 1–40. ISSN 1083-9593.

External links [edit]

  • Tony Schiavone at IMDb
  • Tony Schiavone on Twitter Edit this at Wikidata
  • What Happened When? on Westwood One Podcast Network
  • Tony Schiavone'southward contour at Cagematch.cyberspace, Wrestlingdata.com

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