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Announcing Shake Up
Topic Started: Apr 15 2008, 09:22 PM (1,132 Views)
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It was announced just a short while ago at today's SmackDown/ECW taping in London that Mike Adamle is the new play-by-play announcer for ECW. He will be calling tonight's entire ECW broadcast with Tazz.

With Adamle in as the new play-by-play annnouncer for ECW, Joey Styles is obviously out. However, Styles' services will be retained by the company. WWE plans on moving him to an undetermined area within the organization.
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Kame

You've got to be fucking kidding me.
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woah why is Joey styles leaving
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Holy fuck! I don't like that! Not one bit.

Adamle is fucking shit on the mic. Atleast give Styles some decency and move him to SD to replace Coach and have Cole take a back seat!
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Joey Styles is now going to be part of WWE.com in some sort of way. We should have more soon.

Styles will not be headed to SmackDown! and Mike Adamle will now be announcing ECW with Tazz. This is unreal.
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Shit. :td:

I gues Joey would be giving video reports on WWE.com at best...

Adamle sucks. I hope he gets a severe strep throat infection...
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Mike Adamle

who is he? OVW announcer?
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He was an announcer on the original American Gladiators. He's also been a sports reporter for a long time doing mostly sideline stuff and crappy studio gigs.

I love Joey Styles, but he never fit in with the WWE style of announcing. He was a guy that called the action in the ring with emotion and put over the matches. The WWE basically told him not to do that. That is what he is best at. On ECW TV they said he will be head of WWE.com. They called it a big promotion. Hopefully his contract is expiring soon. RoH could really use him.
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I watched the first half hour last night and Mike sucks, I've never heard him announce before but it seemed like Tazz was the one carrying most of the announcing and that's pretty bad when he sounds more like the lead. :-/

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To the surprise of many (including WWE talent) the announcement was made backstage at yesterday's ECW/SmackDown tapings in London, England that Mike Adamle would replace Joey Styles full time as the play-by-play man for the ECW brand. It was later revealed in an announcement that was included on last night's ECW on Sci-Fi broadcast that Styles would take over as the "Head of WWE.com." In reality, the official WWE website will still be overseen by Brian Kalinowski but Styles will assume the managing editor role similar to what Michael Cole used to do for the website.

From what I understand the move was not made because of heat on Styles but is rather due to Adamle's hefty contract. It is believe that Adamle is making in excess of $300,000 a year and officials within WWE (including Vince McMahon) felt like he was not being used enough for his price tag. Furthermore the feeling internally is that the official WWE website is struggling and they need someone with Internet experience. Prior to his stint with WWE, Joey Styles was the co-owner of the original ECW website (formerly located at ECWWrestling.com) and the 1Wrestling website. With Styles having a lot of knowledge in the Internet field, the company felt like he would be a good man to help improve the website which has become a significant piece of WWE.

Styles will not only continue to travel to ECW/SmackDown TVs each week but from what I understand, he will also travel to Raw on Monday nights. Styles will be based out of an office at WWE's Corporate Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Apr 15 2008, 08:17 PM
I love Joey Styles, but he never fit in with the WWE style of announcing. He was a guy that called the action in the ring with emotion and put over the matches. The WWE basically told him not to do that. That is what he is best at. On ECW TV they said he will be head of WWE.com. They called it a big promotion. Hopefully his contract is expiring soon. RoH could really use him.

:tu: on all points.

I used to watch the old American Gladiators all the time and I hated the announcing by Adamle. And from what I've seen of his work in WWE so far (didn't see ECW), he still sucks.

This was a downgrade.

And seriously, are they trying to downgrade all their commentating teams? Is Grisham going to be replacing Lawler or Ross in the next few months so they all suck on equal levels?

Why did they bring in Adamle, anyway?
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Apr 16 2008, 02:36 PM
Why did they bring in Adamle, anyway?

The one I posted is from one of my other sources but PWI is reporting something similar to it.

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One of the main reasons Adamle is being promoted is that he's being paid a pretty hefty contract. Several reports indicate WWE is paying Adamle around $300,000 a year and officials within WWE (including Vince McMahon) felt like he was not being used enough to merit his price tag.

Furthermore, WWE has been putting a lot of resources into developing WWE.com over the past several months. Traffic has been declining month after month and the company has always been adamant about the site's potential and they feel Styles is the man who can help turn things around. Prior to working with WWE on the new ECW, Joey Styles was the co-owner of the original ECW website and news site 1Wrestling.com.
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I suppose Joey has went to a more productive role, however, I think it was the wrong move to make.
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Apr 16 2008, 02:36 PM
Why did they bring in Adamle, anyway?

The one I posted is from one of my other sources but PWI is reporting something similar to it.

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One of the main reasons Adamle is being promoted is that he's being paid a pretty hefty contract. Several reports indicate WWE is paying Adamle around $300,000 a year and officials within WWE (including Vince McMahon) felt like he was not being used enough to merit his price tag.

Furthermore, WWE has been putting a lot of resources into developing WWE.com over the past several months. Traffic has been declining month after month and the company has always been adamant about the site's potential and they feel Styles is the man who can help turn things around. Prior to working with WWE on the new ECW, Joey Styles was the co-owner of the original ECW website and news site 1Wrestling.com.

I was wondering (out loud...so to speak) why Adamle was brought into WWE, not the commentating booth.

I can understand them trying to get some use out of him, especially with his ridiculous price tag, but why did they go for him in the first place? He's mediocre on his best days.
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I never read if it was true, but I just assumed they brought Adamle in because they may have expected the new America Gladiators to be popular again and wanted to have someone associated with the show on their show. I could be wrong though. :shrug:
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Backstage reaction to the Mike Adamle debacle has mirrored that of fans who watched what is being called one of the worst performances by a broadcaster in the history of televised wrestling. Adamle has been the subject of backstage ridicule since botching Jeff Hardy's name on his debut a few months ago, and he is especially loathed behind the scenes by many people who are offended that the company would expect that he could one day fill Jim Ross' shoes.

The word when Adamle first appeared was that the company wanted to bring a younger announcer to take over from Ross. The problem with that scenario is that Adamle is 3 years older than Ross.
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At No Way Out, he said "WE Championship" instead of "WWE Championship". Oh well... why can't they fire the bastard?
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Kraul

Because they were stupid enough to sign him for a small fortune. :lol:
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Take over for Ross? Shenanigans, good thing it shouldn't have a shot now, seeing how shite he is on the mic.
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Yeah, he sucks... but when you watch his botching, it's funny as hell... :lol:

That was serious elevation on that dick!

Adamle moments...

Moar Adamle...
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Apr 19 2008, 02:01 PM

Maybe he just forgot the "ropk" part in "dropkick"? :lol:

Wow. That's all much more worse than it sounded typed out.
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Oh god, I missed ECW, but after watching those clips... :cry:
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lol at the poor fellow. :(
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OH BOY. I thought this was going to be a quiet week. No such thing, I guess.

In a decision that really threw everyone for a loop, WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and Executive Producer Kevin Dunn pulled Joey Styles from the position of ECW play-by-play announcer, and replaced him with the indescribably amateurish Mike Adamle.

The reaction was immediate. Even those who never saw Joey in the original Extreme Championship Wrestling were outraged.

Adamle's performance was so terrible, it drew an intense reaction from even casual fans who couldn't possibly care less, and who were ready to take a baseball bat and smash their television sets after listening to his butchering of the program.

I'm not being overly hard on Mike Adamle. It's the old joke about Vince Russo going to WCW. Russo's booking did such damage to the promotion, people in the industry actually believed Vince McMahon sent him to WCW to kill the company.

I'm not kidding. To this day, some people swear it had to be true. Mike Adamle couldn't have done a more piss-poor job at announcing if he tried.

No self-sabotage could have been that consistent. Adamle called "WWE" just "WW". He called Tazz "The Tazz." He mispronounced names, couldn't call holds, and his announcing debut was generally regarded as one of the worst in the history of broadcasting.

Now here's a little secret. SHHHHHHHH.... don't tell anyone.

For everyone who is so up in arms, screaming "we need to tell Vince what we think!" and "This guy's a total disaster," I have a scoop for you, and you're not going to like it.

Adamle is horrible. No one likes him. People at home actually loathe his presence on the show. AND THAT'S EXACTLY THE SORT OF PASSIONATE RESPONSE VINCE McMAHON IS LOOKING FOR!!!

Do you really think Vince doesn't realise how incompetent this tra-la-la-goon-de-yay of an announcer is? The ECW show from the UK was TAPED.

That means there was time for Adamle to grab a mic backstage and clean up the performance. Not the whole miserable, horrible, intolerable hour. Just the really obvious "branding" issues, like all 3 letters that identify World Wrestling Entertainment. Hey, that would be a start, don't you think?

Vince McMahon is not a fan of Joey Styles as an announcer. In 2005, when we were heading into the first ECW One Night Stand pay per view, the lead play-by-play spot was never put into the script.

Even a few weeks before the show, I was writing "announcers" because the decision still hadn't been made to finalise the deal with Joey. Trivia note, by the way: The backup plan was to go with Jim Ross.

In memo to Vince, Stephanie, Shane, Kevin Dunn, and John Laurinaitis, I wrote "If we can't come to terms with Styles - which I am very hopeful we can indeed do, because if we want this show to be "authentic," Joey has to be the play-by-play announcer - then a suggestion for the show without Joey is for Jim Ross to do it.

If the Heyman character does the dreaded ECW shoot promo on Raw, and walks up to JR and states that because we couldn't come to terms with Joey, the only conceivable other answer would be you, JR, because while you've never been in ECW, we all respect your ability to call the product, and there's not an ECW fan alive who deny that you are universally recognised as the best in the game...I would suggest everyone would accept JR in that role, and he would not disappoint on the night of the show."

But Joey did come to terms. And then, when Vince decided for the umteempth time to replace JR, Joey was signed to a five-year contract. And ever since about 10 minutes into Joey's first broadcast, Vince has hated the decision to hire Joey Styles.

I lost more hair arguing that Joey needed to be the host of the resurrected brand in 2006 than I want to even remember. Vince thought of everyone else who could be in that chair. Everyone, of course, except for Mike Adamle.

OK, here it is. Oliver Stone can kiss my kosher ass. This conspiracy is presented to you ... BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!!!

Vince McMahon is not only keenly aware of just how bad Mike Adamle is, he's counting on it. That's why there was no editing done to clean up Adamle's embarrassingly bad performance.

WWE's ECW is doing 1.2 and 1.3 ratings on Sci-Fi. That may keep Bonnie Hammer and Sci-Fi happy because very little else on that network comes close to that number, but I remember the panic setting in when the new ECW was "crashing" into the 2.1 zone.

The show has simply settled in with the audience that will watch whatever product is on, be it "Heat," "Velocity," "TNA," or any other lite version of Raw or Smackdown.

So Vince's big idea for ECW is the train-wreck mentality! I can just see Vince right now, believing every word he himself says. "This guy is so bad, how can anyone NOT watch the show?" And he means it.

Vince actually believes that Mike Adamle is so mind-bogglingly awful, so ill-prepared, so horribly wrong for the show, that people will never be able to turn the dial. It's the Britney Spears mentality. Is she wearing her panties today? Uh oh, she's driving on the highway. Someone call the gossip blogs!

So, what have we learned today? Well, for one, the decision to remove Styles from the broadcasting position in favor of Adamle has dragged down the quality of the already-suffering show even more.

Number Two, that when a young, hungry, ambitious, qualified announcer like Josh Matthews, who has been waiting in the wings for half a decade, is passed over for an incompetent boob like Mike Adamle, there must be a good reason for it.

And three, that reason is because Vince McMahon is sure Adamle is so bad, people will look forward to his performances on ECW because of the very fact that you never know what he's going to screw up next.

And in the end, if you realise that I've spent all this time writing about the decision, you have to give round one to Vince's theory. Let's check those ratings in a month. We'll see how the theory pans out.

Until next time, E-C- ...... um ...... nevermind!
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Just read this earlier and nothing is going to change unless people stop watching and ratings do go down but seeing how there are so many loyal fans, that would say anything to stick up for their favorite wrestler, then complaining is going to do nothing, unless action is taken.

I'd prefer Matthews myself also.
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Apr 19 2008, 12:06 AM
At No Way Out, he said "WE Championship" instead of "WWE Championship". Oh well... why can't they fire the bastard?

He actually said the "WEDF Championship". :lol:
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Apr 20 2008, 09:38 PM
then complaining is going to do nothing, unless action is taken.

QFT. If people wanted to get rid of Cena and Orton, just raise a 7-8 digit fund and pay a crime organization to wipe them off the face of the earth. So easy to get rid of them... bitching won't get you anywhere.
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You have a problem. :squint:
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I wonder if he will ever call any "Jest Harvey" matches. :lol:
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I wonder if Jest would be Jamacian him crazy :P
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Regarding Harvey, it'll be "Swanton me crazy", most likely.

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Apr 20 2008, 11:51 PM
You have a problem.   :squint:

You have people like -O- bitching endless about Orton. You have Purps, Scottman and Fittes bitching endless about Cena. Instead of going around like bitter bitches 24/7, why not do something about it and put an end to their misery? My suggestion isn't that bad of a thing... to them, at least.
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