Right! I ... never ... freakin ... knew ... This is the wildest shit I *never* saw!

Jim Nicholson but he’s one of the best on commentary how could he not cut a promo

@@aldairrocha3374 Doing babyface play-by-play and cutting a live in-ring heel promo are 2 different worlds. During play-by-play, they have papers in front of them with rundowns, historical notes, bullet points, etc. Not to mention someone talking to them through their earpiece telling them when & how to make certain points. It's equally challenging, but in a totally different way. Generally, whenever babyface announcers have made a heel turn and tried to cut heel promos, it has been a disaster. They sound overly scripted, the crowd doesnt buy their new attitude, and the whole angle flops before it ever has a prayer of getting over. Seeing Schiavone like this makes me wonder why he was never used in this capacity before. The guy started doing interviews for Crockett in '83, commentary in '85. Aside from the year he spent in the WWF, he worked consistently for the same promotion through all of its evolutions (JCP/NWA/WCW) for almost 20 years. Seems like his true talent was severely overlooked by everybody.

I'm not surprised he carried the Monday Night Nitro commentary team for years. In fact he carried the whole WCW commentary team for years. Him and Jesse The Body Ventura are an underrated commentary team in WWF and WCW

He literally watched the greats for years!!!!!! Not really a surprise

i agree. when they snagged Tony, he had some great noteworthy matches he called that made WCW awesome. He was fukn devastated when they died though.

His voice is as familar as JR's

@@spdutahraptor777 Now there in AEW including the Voice of PWG Excalibur

@@ericmonaco4509 I really like Excalibur

He was the voice of a generation.

Who's watching AEW after signing Tony Schiavone?

@@devildogg061 me

i am watching it after Sting showed up back on TNT.

IT'S STIIIIIIIINGGGGG

No wonder he has heat with Impact fans 😂😂

Andy Reierson 37!

Tony wasnt even supposed to be there that day

lmfao looks just like him

Dude I was thinking the exact same Fucking thing!!!

@@RobertSmith-gn2he in a row?

DAMN NATION funny ain’t it that tony schiavone has a job in AEW as a commentator and mike tenay is out of a job now lol

Bologna!!! it's was Conrad who's friend with Cody and the Cents contact them to sign Tony before he sign with the WWE.

DAMN NATION because they are stupid! Smmfh I couldn't agree more with you!

@@DevanteMcDaniel to be fair why should they care about two commentators going back and forth? They weren't going to have a match this was just a pointless filler promo

@@thetruth619ful I disagree! I think this was good!

Hey should've quit for good lol

It was boring. Should of kept it online and not on TV

I love Tony Tenay and Vince Russo

I would have to agree with you, because this is Awesome, also I wonder if Tony Schiavone heard about what Happened to Chris Benoit and his Family?.

Isn't this just scripted story line ?

@@DIGGER1969 dude, its an angle

I wish Tony would go to AEW do commentary with J..R.

Percy Pringle

Loved paul Bearer.

But....he did tho?

So ummm..they are immortal? Ghosts? Hiding with Tupac in Cuba? 🤔

Cereal Killer it’s a reference to The Sandlot...”Legends never die”.

@Anti HHH McMahon LeBron he learned at the foot of the best..j.r

Yeah, except that time he said " the Yeeetayyyyy!"

That was the greatest promo in the history of our sport.

"A pair of sleepers....That flopped over on top..Oh well what ever, UP" LOL Uncensored 1999

And he's doing outstanding in AEW now

Yes

Sucks the fans were being dicks about it

Pipe**mb Tony is awesome!

Now, he's in AEW, and doing some TOTALLY AWESOME mic work, alongside of Good Ol'J. R! Now THAT'S what I call a WINNING COMBINATION!!!!!

@@ronaldshank7589 JR and Tony both worked together in the NWA and later WCW before comin' to AEW and I LOVE It!

Sad it never lasted. They should have him take over the announcers table. Sadly he may had one other appearance after this. It went no where.

@@Steinerecliner Now hes in AEW and doing great.

@@CoreDreamStudios Yes he is.

yea he wasn't too bad. best work as a face announcer getting into matches.

I wanna see it in AEW

Yes 😂😂😂😂

I don't know if you know this or not, but several years after this confrontation between Mike Tenay and Tony Schiavone, there was another confrontation-This time, it was between Mike Tenay, and Don West. Don actually accused Mike of basically the same thing, that Tony accused Mike of: Caring only about himself, and, allegedly, not wanting to work with Don West! Just so you know.....

Wow. Time flies

thats what he wanted you to believe jim

​@@jamieoiler5690What? What do you mean?

@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu they are told what to say and what not to say in the sport of wrestling

That’s exactly what brought me here

When the crowd chants boring you should listen wrestling 101 and heat is of the go away variety Schiavone taking that gig at Starbucks was the right long term career move. Starbucks is a tshirt TNA is a trainwreck. I know Impact has gotten a lot better since these days but it's really hard to get past crap like this in the eyes of casual fans.

@@griffinemerson8475 nobody wanted Schiavone, not Wwe, not Tna, not Roh, HE SUCKS

Jokes on him, cuz he wasn’t even hired, so he already done with the business before this promo 😂😂

Paul Bearer aka Percy Pringle The III is looking at all this and is thinking "I left the WWF for this bullshit?"

@christopher olivarez tna really almost felt like WCW under a different name alot the WCW guys along with announces were in there early on. Why WWF or WWE nowadays is going strong is because Vince Mcmahon is in control of his organization and understands what it takes to manage talent like him or not no one can come close Vince in wrestling because his knowledge and how he operates is beyond anyone in Wrestling

Mike's too nice of a guy to say anything too harsh. Schiavone's wrestling career was over. He clearly didn't give a damn.

Ricky T.P.B In the words of The Macho Man, Randy Savage:"Oooooo, yeah"!!!!

Ricky TPB- the Goldberg streak was Tenay's idea. You're clueless and know nothing about pro wrestling.

no he didn't.

@@kennydnolan Tony Schiavone is BACK in Pro Wrestling with AEW along with Jim Ross, Taz and Excalibur

Not too bad as a bad guy. Had a lot of interesting points 2 y he was so bitter after WCW died. Hell i'd be a lil bitter myself if i was Tony.

Tony and awesome should never be used in the same sentence imo

Yeah, that crowd sucked. Not sure why they didn't give him some legitimate heat.

they musta never watched WCW or the monday night wars between WWF n WCW cuz if they did, they woulda practically wet themselves to see the voice of WCW resurface after at least 2 yrs after WCW went down.

Agreed, That crows was definitely either drunk or not wrestling fans who witnessed the attitude era

Which is weird because wcw used to go to this arena a lot

that crowd was stupid rednecks that don't understand good real shit when it's in front of them I agree I mean Tony was the voice of WCW

Was that during the Florida studio days I wonder. Would make sense.

​@@BAYBAY_316A Ukraine mark

@@StandWatie1862 I am . thank you for noticing. 😊

@BAYBAY_316 Yeah you're doing a good thing for a country you've never heard of before last year

@@StandWatie1862boi you cant be trash talking with your pfp like that. 🤦‍♂️

well, since the company is called TNA, they wanted some fucking action, not commentators doing shoot promos. People got tired of these shoots quickly as they usually accomplished nothing around the time. In fact, this very shoot ended up being a complete waste of time as Schiavone never appeared on TNA again.

Yeah but how the hell do you expect people to tune into your show, if there's no great action like this? This was based off of the NWA-TNA moniker for so many years.

So much knowledge spoken between both of them. Going through half of the companys history. Great info.

Where did this feud go? People don't want to see announcers arguing for 10 minutes.

john gault pearl before swine

yeah Tony is missed

AEW

Tony would become commentary table on Collision.

Hes not even supposed to be there today

Lol he kinda does. Dante is a koo character.

The wwe doesn't want him

WWF owes Tony Schiavone.

I would have to agree with you.

Grace Martin Schiavone was a cancer

+Grace Martin is Gordon Solie in

lol just loved the whole shoot til Russo came in n boogerfucked it all.

@@Machete87 You replying a 11 years old comments. He is dead now.

@@reibzaise5310 Probably yes. Lol. You never get a reply back when you reply to these 5+ years old comments on KZfaq for some reason.

@@hafizsyednomanali6868 I have. I replied to a 15 year old comment before and the OP replied to me as i stood there shocked

YES!

Only because of that.

He had been in the business for 20 years at the time of this promo..

Lmao he's been around since 1983, which was two decades before this😂 WCW was finished for two years at this time and before that he was big in Jim Crockett Promotions then spent a little time in WWE.

John Lowry aew

AEW!!

Bologna!

@@mikelong2756 Bologna is the meat; baloney is how you spell what Schiavone said. It means something foolish or ridiculous.

That cracked me up😂😂

Loved both of them.

swacfan100 watch MLW on KZfaq, he does the commentary on there. Takes me back to Nitro n WCW Saturday Nights. One of the best n he definitely deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame!!!

swacfan100 Tony was one of the best commentators ever.. don’t know what his doing here or what happened to him

'Tony Schiavone is a way better commentator than Mike Tenay' What babbling nonsense. Schiavone was one of the worst announcers ever circa 1999/2000. You're clueless.

I agree. Tony was a better commentator than Mike ever was in the entire history of our sport.

He's a huge fan

Naw, more like “I wanna know why the fuck YOU are gonna be on the next ‘Maury’ episode!” 🙀

That's the one! The voice of Nitro indeed!!

All 3 of them sucked Russo doesn't sale

F WWE

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lmao

WTF?

JA livengood schiavone is still alive fool

It was a joke comment y'all

I wondered if elements from this was used to create Enzo's character. Lot of similarities here.

How you doin 😁

That's true.

That's because it's fuckin Tony Schiavone; Fat fuck ignorant piece of useless shit. Who cares about what he has to say? If he had a heart attack and shit his pants while having a seizure in the middle of the ring, then it would've been entertaining and the crowd might've cheered

***** Not disputing his skill as a play by play man during the 90s, because he was indeed very good. My issue with him is that basically he was a douchebag. Schiavone played dirty, and seemed to enjoy doing so. Yes it was Bischoff who had the idea of giving away Raw results, but Schiavone took it a step further, insulting and making fun of guys who didn't deserve it. He was very disrespectful in not allowing Bobby Heenan time to say a few words to acknowledge the passing of Gorilla Monsoon, a legend in the business, simply because Monsoon was associated with the competition. Classless moves. He was also the man behind putting the world title on David Arquette; It was his idea. His antics didn't go unnoticed either. It was no surprise that after WCW was bought, Schiavone was out of a job, and off to the middle of nowhere calling little league games. It's just my opinion. On an unrelated note, I worked as a personal trainer for several years while in university, and I really like your "Get a Grip" name. Clever

***** Schiavone rocked plain and simple!

Is it me, or are the fans chanting "shut the f*** up"?

Good comparison. I agree. TNA should hire Striker before they go out of business.

I find Michael Cole more compelling than Mike Tenay..... AND I fuckin hate Michael Cole!!!

Mike was always in it for the WRESTLING. He was never a stooge or an asskisser. He just does his job. Wish every wrestling announcer was like that.

@@InterestingFella Striker never cared 4 him as a performer, great announcer. Striker get me really hyped for match during Lucha Underground n the commentary between him n Vamp was lit🔥

same here. I'm 38 and think tony was damn good at his job. I enjoyed monsoon, heenan, lawler, jr and tony doing commentary. hell even vince wasn't that bad. I always heard that heenan never liked tony

He started out with MidSouth (as did a myriad of JCP Greats) before he ever announced for The Crocketts. And never forget that Tony Schiavone and David Crockett only were called upon to replace this guy named Gordon Solie is all!😏😂🎤🌊☀️🍊🌴🤼‍♂️B.W.

This wasn't even on Spike. This was still on PPV but they were cheap PPV shows. A plus on their end to shill out their content.

@@aboundingvampirekiller2048 This segment was aired on Spike TV after the pay-per-view event, in a censored form.

@@LaptopLarry330 ah okay.

@@aboundingvampirekiller2048 I was bout to say they were barely on FSN yet

This comment has aged like milk in the summer sun. "Oh wow! This is so great!"

@@jamesb1988 kind of like your old ladies vagina!

They're chanting "shut the fuck up" at 4:25

shiavone 3:16 says i just bought a ticket on the titanic

That fan is an idiot. Wrestling just wouldn't be as interesting without storylines and promos, it really is that simple.

Zombies Ate My Pizza! Not like promos and storylines make wrestling the whole. Everything should be balanced. Which is why WWE is utterly shit now. Shit talkers get pushed far more than actual worthy wrestlers just for the sake of talkin. Promos are really startin to be overrated

Granted, there is no one without the other, but back to the fan in this video, TNA wasn't all about storylines in the slightest in its early days. I also disagree about WWE, I mean it's not the greatest it's ever been, but look at the guys who are getting pushed right now - AJ Styles isn't the best promo cutter, but he's the WWE Champ because he's popular and an excellent worker. Roman Reigns is always getting pushed for reasons unknown, because he's an average worker and a shitty promo cutter. Brock hardly speaks at all.