Tony Schiavone addresses AEW Collision commentary role
Tony Schiavone has addressed his new role as the play-by-play announcer for AEW Collision.
Schiavone joined the broadcast team of Kevin Kelly and Nigel McGuinness on Saturday’s show in Toledo. He said on his What Happened When podcast recently that he asked Tony Khan “months ago” about potentially doing play-by-play for Rampage before the AEW president eventually offered him a role on Collision.
“I told Tony, I said, ‘I would like another chance at doing play-by-play.’ And I said, ‘I could probably do Rampage.’ He said, ‘Okay, well, let me think about it.’ And I thought I was going to end up doing play-by-play on Rampage.”
Prior to Schiavone joining the announce team on Saturdays, Kelly had been doing play-by-play with McGuiness providing color commentary.
“Kevin Kelly is a great announcer,” Schiavone continued. “He is so smooth and so good and I really, really enjoy working with him and Nigel. And I know we’ve only worked together like once, but we’ve been together backstage for a number of months now.”
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