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Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald has posted a long column looking at WWE's announcing situation, and also has many quotes from an interview he conducted with Joey Styles during Wrestlemania weekend. You can check out the full article by clicking here. Some highlights from the story.
Whether he misses announcing: ``Not one bit. I called matches for 10 years, and I feel like I'm contributing to the company more now. I don't want to give away too much, but I think you've seen changes in WWE.com over the past year, and mostly in terms of video and television programming that can be distributed on the web."
How his former job as an announcer and his current role with WWE.com compare: ``Not even close. As an announcer, I could fly in Saturday morning, attend the Hall of Fame, wake-up Sunday, work out, look at the two or three matches I was calling. I pretty much knew the storylines very well from calling the weekly show. Managing the WWE.com staff on the road is just non-stop. There is always something because everything changes. With an event this big, let's get one of our three video crews. Besides all the television crews WWE has here, WWE.com has three video crews here as well as writers and all the still photographers. We've all been criss-crossing."
The current role of WWE announcers: ``We don't have traditional play-by-play announcers which I am. I'm probably better suited to call amateur wrestling or MMA or football. We have storytellers."
The WWE.com April Fool's joke where they announced Vickie Guerrero was pregnant: ``The April Fool's joke that we went with was not my idea. I got over-ruled. I wanted to go with a different one. We had three options. They all got approved by management. I wanted to go with an interview with Khali who speaks perfect English -- like with Matt Striker, five-syllable words, but they went with Vickie pregnant instead. I don't know if we fooled anybody, but it was fun.''
On WWE.com covering storyline "incidents" like the Jeff Hardy hotel attack, but ignoring real incidents like Chris Jericho being harassed in a parking lot: ``As far as I'm concerned, we are an entertainment web site. We are scripted entertainment which we make very clear to the public, and I think we should be a scripted web site. We should follow storylines. We don't need to follow hard news.''
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This one is real. lol.
I am shocked he would rather be in WWE.com than behind the booth.
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Joey was a great announcer, he just wasn't adaptable to the WWE style of announcing and given the likelihood he's earning decent money running WWE.com I can't see any reason for him to want to get behind the annouce table again. At least for the 'E.
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