Chad1m
Don Corleone
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Post by Chad1m on Nov 10, 2009 3:32:33 GMT -5
I tell you what, I'll take 2001 Schiavone/Tenay over 2009 Cole/Lawler any day of the week.
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Post by Schattenjager on Nov 10, 2009 3:35:09 GMT -5
I tell you what, I'll take 2001 Schiavone/Tenay over 2009 Cole/Lawler any day of the week. Seconded.
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Post by tarheelfan on Nov 10, 2009 23:29:47 GMT -5
The irony is that when Bobby Heenan was up north playing a cartoon type character in the WWE Tony was down south in the the NWA as a great announcer calling serious type NWA matches. I really like Bobby Heenan and enjoyed his character but he should have known that WCW was not like the WWE and a different type of element. Bobby has gone on record as saying how he strongly disliked being around Schiavone. That Tony hated the wrestling business and hated the fans and would go into business for himself when announcing. Bobby also said that whenever he tried to give suggestions to Bischoff on how to make the product better, he was told to just shut up and announce, so that's what he did. He even admits he was phoning it in because the company was one big clusterf*** and he did what he was told to collect his paycheck. The reality is that you can have two companies that are in the same industry that are ran totally differently. That is the real world. Just because Bobby was use to a certain way of things in WWE does not mean that WCW had to provide the same atmosphere. Bobbys opinion on Schiavone is irrelevant to the fact that Schiavone had been an outstanding announcer since the mid 1980s and even earlier as an interviewer in the early 1980s. again I liked Heenans character in the WWE but to be fair WCW was not the WWE. In a way it is easy to glamorize Heenan because he and Monsoon made a perfect broadcast duo of sorts but the fact of the matter is that Schiavone had paid his dues in the announcing business for a long period of time. And frankly if Schiavone did indeed hate the wrestling business what does it really matter because Tony did his job. I started watching Schiavone in the early 1980s as an interviewer and through the Mid Atlantic NWA days and then through WCW and as a whole I thought Tony was one of the best announcers I have seen in my close to 30 years of watching wrestling. And I think everyone will agree that the last couple of years Tony was not as good as an announcer which I attribute to the fact WCW was dying and IMHO it is possible that Tony was maybe getting burned out with wrestling announcing and the fact that Tony was also into baseball announcing after he left wrestling.
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Post by Jock Ass on Nov 11, 2009 1:43:47 GMT -5
Mark Madden wrote about this fairly recently, and although I don't like the guy, I didn't see any reason to doubt what he had to say about Schiavone. According to Madden, Schiavone had a ton of unofficial duties that he was responsible and really was under a great deal of stress. Link please (if online).
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