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he's good for nostalgia
AEW announcers should be young dudes not oldheads
AEW announcers should be young dudes not oldheads
Do AEW fans actually like Tony Schiavone?
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VegetasHairline
Veteran
So is JR!He’s better than that Irish guy on Mondays
Saysumthinfunnymike
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Tony is an all-time great wrestling announcer. He's "bringing nothing to the table" because they have too many cooks in the kitchen. The commentary team should either just be him and Tazz or JR and Tazz.
Saysumthinfunnymike
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And yes, I left out Excalibur for a reason. I don't like his commentary voice. If they want him in a backstage role that's cool but meh
Saysumthinfunnymike
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The announcer on ROH is actually pretty good too.
Caprice and Ricobani, or whatever his name is, are currently my favorite desk team
Tony knows his role and doesn't do more than he needs to.
Jawnny Blud would be hilarious and would be fired after 2 shows for fukkery
OoooooaooooOooMahGAwD
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
The problem with Schiavone is that he doesn't really have a role within the commentary team...or the show for that matter, which used to not be the case. In Dynamite's first days, he was a combination of a semi-legit wrestling announcer (both in the sense of being an old-school WCW guy and being a legit baseball commentator) and someone returning to the business after a long sabbatical and rediscovering both what it is and his love for it. That gave us something to hang onto when listening to and watching Schiavone, as well as a proper role for him to fill as a commentator and interviewer.
For some odd reason, they seem to have largely stripped that role from him and turned him into just another announcer, which just isn't necessary when Excalibur (another guy that's regressed over the years, which makes me think this might be a production issue. I certainly don't have the weird and strange hate for him some people here and elsewhere seem to have for him, though) and Taz are doing play-by-play and color, respectively. If they're not going to actually do anything with him, they should just make him into a full-time interviewer and let him focus more on his backstage roles. If they want him to be a proper on-screen presence, though, they're going to need to make him more than an occasional whipping post and cheerleader.
For some odd reason, they seem to have largely stripped that role from him and turned him into just another announcer, which just isn't necessary when Excalibur (another guy that's regressed over the years, which makes me think this might be a production issue. I certainly don't have the weird and strange hate for him some people here and elsewhere seem to have for him, though) and Taz are doing play-by-play and color, respectively. If they're not going to actually do anything with him, they should just make him into a full-time interviewer and let him focus more on his backstage roles. If they want him to be a proper on-screen presence, though, they're going to need to make him more than an occasional whipping post and cheerleader.
WhatsGoodTy
Ya feel me
Only good one is taz.
TrueEpic08
Dum Shiny
Now here's a guy I don't really understand the appeal of. He's certainly not bad, but he comes off as a try hard, cut rate Kevin Kelly to me. And Kevin Kelly ain't that good.
...and I kinda hate his voice.
Brad Piff
The Money & The Miles
On cornette’s pod they kept track of everything Schiavonne said on an episode of dynamite and it only amounted to about 18 words of him going “wow” “that was great” “can you believe this?”