Tony Schiavone Believes WWE Wanted To Hire Then Fire Him In 2019
Tony Schiavone has no doubt that WWE would have let him go almost immediately, had he signed in 2019.
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Dec 18, 2023
Current AEW announcer Tony Schiavone believes Vince McMahon wanted to hire him just to fire him in 2019.
Schiavone had previously worked for WWE in 1989/90, before departing to go back to WCW. While discussing the 1990 Royal Rumble (which he called) for a recent edition of his What Happened When podcast, the 66-year-old said:
"Who knows with the WWE, how long I would have stayed (in 1990) after that because I could have been fired like I would have been had I taken that job five years ago. I would have been fired almost immediately."
Pressed by co-host Conrad Thompson whether he really believe that, Tony replied "There is no question. There is no question, in my mind, that Vince wanted me to come there to fire me. Yeah, I believe that."
With regards to why, Schiavone offered:
"He wanted to hire me. I feel bad about Bruce [Prichard] because Bruce is in the middle of this and Bruce is a friend of mine and I believe anything Bruce tells me is legit and sincere. Vince wanted to hire me to keep me away from this upstart company AEW. COVID happened, they cut back, why not cut back on one of the newest guys that just arrived? There is no question I would have been let go."
Schiavone's AEW contract reportedly expires in April 2024.
H/T Fightful
