champchumpchange
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Post by champchumpchange on Apr 22, 2022 6:40:48 GMT -5
Yeah man
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2022 12:57:36 GMT -5
I think the same thing every time I watch AEW.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Apr 22, 2022 14:59:09 GMT -5
Honestly in retrospect Tony giving up on caring in WCW towards the end is one of the things that entertains me the most when I rewatch it. I mean it was mostly garbage, can you blame him?
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Magnus the Magnificent
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Apr 22, 2022 15:28:19 GMT -5
Tony "Shavontay" has always been a *good* commentator, but I think he excels into the *great* realm with the right colour person. He was good in his earliest years the NWA. Good and sometimes great in WWF with Ventura. He would sometimes sound like a radio commetator; "Armdrag and a twist!" "Yes, I. Can. See. That. Tony. Go back to commentating baseball, cheez." Mostly good, border-line great, coming back to WCW. The pairings with either Ventura or Ross wasn't all-time classics, but he had his moments. Good, but no real chemistry, with Boobby Heenan, IMO. Lattter WCW, "THE GREATEST NIGHT OF OUR SPORT", yeah, that was rough. I get why, but, yeah, he phoned it in. Gettin back into the groove, in AEW, with Excalibur and Tazz, he's close to being great every time he's either commentating or doing an in-ring interview. He just looks (when he's onscreen) or sounds so damn happy to be there and doing what he does, and as a viewer, I feel that, and it makes me excited. Excited for whatever he shilling, and him for being happy to do it. IT'S STIIIIIIIING!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Apr 22, 2022 15:32:33 GMT -5
Tony’s half of one of my all-time favorite calls, when Warrior and Hogan meet in the 1990 Rumble
Ventura: “Warrior eliminates the Model, and look at THIS!!” Tony: “My God!!!”
Just his stunned reverence at seeing them getting ready to fight is great. Tony’s great.
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Post by Bo Rida on Apr 22, 2022 15:42:50 GMT -5
He's fantastic. Has that mostly proffesional gravitas but allows it to break at the right times often with genuine enthusiasm and in the process manages to enhance things.
Most importantly he's a genius when it comes to covering and aknowledging things as appropiate, eg they didn't make a clumsy botch they sucumbed to damage taken. He moves things on from JR's detracting rants without undermining his collegue. Yet occasionly has to throw his hands up and tells it like it is, this stops him sounding like the corporate shill he was once viewed as and makes those other attempts to cover more plausible.
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 22, 2022 15:55:20 GMT -5
Conrad deserves some amount of credit because the podcast did put Tony out there for a lot of people, but AEW cinched the redemption arc.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Apr 23, 2022 11:00:02 GMT -5
I also feel it has been very beneficial for JR to have Tony and their rich history to bounce off of.
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Apr 23, 2022 11:41:31 GMT -5
Honestly Sting’s reunion with Tony is one of the most low key heartwarming moments in AEW history. Even better considering how good being there has been for both. Tony’s no longer just the “that’ll put butts in seats” guy, and Sting’s last stint in the wrestling business wasn’t the horrible WWE run.
But honestly Schiovane’s ability to put anything over combined with a product which doesn’t need much help in that regard is a match made in heaven.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Apr 23, 2022 13:16:30 GMT -5
AEW is more Tony Schiavone's redemption story than anything else.
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Post by DeeBee on Apr 23, 2022 13:33:05 GMT -5
I've always loved Tony Schiavone and thought that he was much better than others who are held in higher regard (*coughJRcough*). I get that he was checked out during WCW's end, but shit, who wouldn't be? The man watch a company he'd been a part of for years die a slow death due to extremely dumb shit choices. I imagine that would break you down. Then there's the Mick Foley junk that's unfairly stuck to him, when it has been pointed out time and time again he was directed to say it. It's not like it was his idea and he just did it for the hell of it.
For me, growing up on old NWA tapes and later watching WCW, Tony is the voice I hear when I think of wrestling.
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Post by 67 more on Apr 23, 2022 13:39:27 GMT -5
Just getting round to watch Revolution and this exchange is great.
MJF: Give me the f***ing mic! Ex: We apologise for MJF's language. Tony: We apologise for him being alive.
I love Tony's hate for MJF so much.
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Kalmia
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Post by Kalmia on Apr 23, 2022 13:44:56 GMT -5
He reminds me a little of Don West in TNA. Tony is obviously a better commentator and more knowledgeable about wrestling than West ever was, but he has the same genuine and infectious enthusiasm. Having someone like that in the commentary booth is so important. It just lifts everything. I'm so glad Tony returned to wrestling and is enjoying himself again.
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Post by Bad Moon on Apr 25, 2022 6:56:48 GMT -5
As someone who had only known done-with-this-shit Tony from the latter days of WCW he has been a joy to listen to in AEW, totally turned my opinion on him around. I feel like I've made 3 threads on here just appreciating him since he came back.
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Post by eJm on Apr 25, 2022 7:06:55 GMT -5
Just getting round to watch Revolution and this exchange is great. MJF: Give me the f***ing mic! Ex: We apologise for MJF's language. Tony: We apologise for him being alive. I love Tony's hate for MJF so much. The first time Wardlow was being held back by security, I remember Jim Ross being concerned about MJF having to stop him and then Tony's response was "Yeah! Go get him, Max!" like a cartoon sidekick provoking their much bigger boss to pick a fight with the witty good guy. Also, Tony at Stadium Stampede 2 is his Bobby Heenan at Royal Rumble 92 purely for the amount of MJF hate. It was glorious.
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Bad Moon
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Post by Bad Moon on Apr 25, 2022 7:13:55 GMT -5
Just getting round to watch Revolution and this exchange is great. MJF: Give me the f***ing mic! Ex: We apologise for MJF's language. Tony: We apologise for him being alive. I love Tony's hate for MJF so much. The first time Wardlow was being held back by security, I remember Jim Ross being concerned about MJF having to stop him and then Tony's response was "Yeah! Go get him, Max!" like a cartoon sidekick provoking their much bigger boss to pick a fight with the witty good guy. Also, Tony at Stadium Stampede 2 is his Bobby Heenan at Royal Rumble 92 purely for the amount of MJF hate. It was glorious. Also the Brodie tribute show when -1 got to beat MJF with the stick. "Hit him again! Go for broke kid!"
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 25, 2022 11:02:59 GMT -5
Just getting round to watch Revolution and this exchange is great. MJF: Give me the f***ing mic! Ex: We apologise for MJF's language. Tony: We apologise for him being alive. I love Tony's hate for MJF so much. The first time Wardlow was being held back by security, I remember Jim Ross being concerned about MJF having to stop him and then Tony's response was "Yeah! Go get him, Max!" like a cartoon sidekick provoking their much bigger boss to pick a fight with the witty good guy. Also, Tony at Stadium Stampede 2 is his Bobby Heenan at Royal Rumble 92 purely for the amount of MJF hate. It was glorious. God, could you imagine the sheer blatant biased Broadcast Journalism, The Brain would do for MJF?
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Post by eJm on Apr 25, 2022 11:04:55 GMT -5
The first time Wardlow was being held back by security, I remember Jim Ross being concerned about MJF having to stop him and then Tony's response was "Yeah! Go get him, Max!" like a cartoon sidekick provoking their much bigger boss to pick a fight with the witty good guy. Also, Tony at Stadium Stampede 2 is his Bobby Heenan at Royal Rumble 92 purely for the amount of MJF hate. It was glorious. God, could you imagine the sheer blatant biased Broadcast Journalism, The Brain would do for MJF? He’d be like a proud damn Dad.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Apr 25, 2022 13:06:37 GMT -5
I liked Schiavone in WCW when I was younger. When I got older, I think the internet's smarminess about him ruined my appreciation of him.
But now, here he is again in AEW, giving it all, and I'm like, "God damn, I forgot how fun he was."
I'm actually wanting them to go with just Excalibur and Schiavone for Dynamite. Because as much as I loved JR, he's starting to wear on me.
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Post by eJm on Apr 25, 2022 13:09:04 GMT -5
I liked Schiavone in WCW when I was younger. When I got older, I think the internet's smarminess about him ruined my appreciation of him. But now, here he is again in AEW, giving it all, and I'm like, "God damn, I forgot how fun he was." I'm actually wanting them to go with just Excalibur and Schiavone for Dynamite. Because as much as I loved JR, he's starting to wear on me. So I have no real evidence of this but I sort of feel like, considering JR's contract expired in March, he's probably going to last until Double or Nothing and then pass the torch to either Taz or someone of that nature because from the interview he did, he seems to know his time is coming and they at least want him to do DoN considering that was his debut show in 2019.
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