Our fourth annual Road to Wrestlemania AMA series will officially kick of this Thursday with Tony Schiavone, host of MLW's What Happened When and former WCW announcer. Special thanks to my friend Conrad Thompson for helping Tony and I put this together!

ABOUT TONY SCHIAVONE

Schiavone was signed by Vince McMahon's WWF for a one-year contract from April 1989 through April 1990, doing backstage interviews with various wrestlers at Wrestlemania V.

In the WWF, he was most notable as being the main play-by-play announcer for their SummerSlam 1989 and Royal Rumble 1990 pay-per-views alongside Jesse "The Body" Ventura.

Schiavone returned soon afterwards to WCW, the former Crockett promotion by then owned by media mogul Ted Turner. For the WWF, other than Ventura, Schiavone commentated alongside others including Lord Alfred Hayes, Gorilla Monsoon, Hillbilly Jim, Rod Trongard and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

Schiavone became the lead voice for WCW's flagship program, Monday Nitro. He also served as the lead announcer of Thunder, typically working alongside Mike Tenay, Bobby Heenan, Larry Zbyszko, and later with Mark Madden and Scott Hudson. Before the advent of Nitro and Thunder, Schiavone, hosted WCW Saturday Night and WCW WorldWide. He made an appearance in the movie Ready to Rumble. When WCW's main assets were bought by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF/now WWE) in 2001.

During his tenure with WCW, Schiavone developed a reputation for his over-the-top announcing style, proclaiming many Nitro broadcasts to be "the greatest", or "most explosive", telecast "in the history of our sport." However, when this hyperbole was repeated on a weekly basis throughout the Monday Night Wars, the phrase lost meaning. Schiavone stated that it was the whole truth and anyone who states otherwise is a fool and is the worst kind of fan. He claims to have been very comfortable with his constant shilling of the WCW product and said that every night constantly topped the last night and thus became the next greatest night in the history of our sport.

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