FORMER ECW STAR TEARS APART ADAMLE REPLACING STYLES
tehMot...@gmail.com
April 28, 2008
I’m going to go on a bit of a rant this week, as I’m finding it hard
to bite my tongue. As most of you should know by now Joey Styles is no
longer announcing ECW television. Joey has been moved to the Website
division and has been replaced at the desk by Mike Adamle. I’m both a
friend and fan of Joey’s, but his moving away from the desk isn’t what
I’m going to rant about. Joey is a great guy, and above all else a
professional, so he will succeed no matter where he goes. What I want
to rant about is moving Mike Adamle to the desk and having him call
ECW action.
I missed Mike’s debut at the desk but caught the highlights, or rather
lowlights, on YouTube in an amaze compilation video. This week I made
a point of watching ECW to witness his announcing first hand, and
after those two experiences I can’t for the life of me figure out why
this man has a job. I will grant you that announcing wrestling is a
very difficult job, and if Mike Adamle just sucked I’d be okay with
that. I’ve done play by play before and believe me I sucked too. My
problem with Mike Adamle is that in addition to sucking he is
completely unprepared for, and incompetent at, the job he is being
paid for.
Adamle is obviously not a wrestling fan, has no knowledge of our
sport, and is completely unfamiliar with the WWE product. This is
completely inexcusable! Even if he had never watched a wrestling match
in his entire life, the day he accepted the job with WWE it became his
job to familiarize himself with the product and prepare for the job he
was being paid for. Mike has been working for WWE since the beginning
of the year and after his debut interview with Jeff “HARVEY”, he
should have been watching 4-6 hours of WWE television per day to
ensure mistakes like this never happened again.
In his debut on ECW television he screwed up the names of wrestlers
and their moves, and even after a degree of post editing was still
absolutely atrocious. This past week on ECW he said practically
nothing at all. There were unbelievably long stretches of absolutely
silence when I guess either Tazz needed a breather from trying to
carry the entire show, or they just tuned Adamle out in post editing,
to avoid even more mistakes. The only comment I remember hearing
Adamle make this past week was when he informed us that Tommy Dreamer
“TAPPED OFF” in his tag match, when he in fact “TAGGED OUT”.
How many tag matches do you have to watch before you figure out that
it’s called a “tag”? I’m guessing unless you are Eugene’s dumber
brother 1, which leaves me thinking Adamle didn’t watch a single tag
match before sitting down at the desk to call this one. I guess we
should be grateful, it could have been much worse. He could have said
that Dreamer “Tapped Out” rather than “Tapped Off”, or maybe if it was
Out Back Jack tagging out he would have called it “Jacking Off”.
I just don’t understand how someone can care so little about their job
performance, and show up so unprepared. Mike Adamle has been employed
by WWE for 4 month and is still struggling with the most basic
wrestling terms not to mention the names of the guys on the show. This
should be completely unacceptable. There has to be a better choice out
there somewhere. Hell, even Helen Keller would be better; at least a
blind deaf mute wouldn’t say anything stupid. Mike Adamle needs to be
replaced and he needs to be replaced NOW. If he really wants this job
make him go home and study wrestling and pass a wrestling quiz before
allowing him back, or sending him another pay cheque.
There is a saying I am a big believer in. “If you fail to prepare, you
are prepared to fail” and thus far Mike Adamle is an EPIC FAIL!
Lance Storm
hobb...@yahoo.com
wrote:
More than anything, Lance should remember that Chairman Wackjob is
going out of his way to desecrate the spirit & legacy of ECW. Adamle
has experience as a play-by-play announcer (original American
Gladiators) and as a color analyst (NFL in the early 80s). The common
link between him & McMahon is his former employer at NBC, Dick
Ebersol, a personal friend of McMahon's. Adamle, if he even had a
remote idea he'd be in the booth this quick, should've been spending
his downtime doing research, as Lance suggests.
That having been said, to Lance, I say, bravo.
J. C. Gilbert
Benjamin Pavsner
at a job and being totally incompitent. When JBL went into the announcing
booth, I was hard on him (as was a lot of others), but that was just his
style of announcing. He pretty much knew the moves and terminology, he just
needed a little prodding to do better (which he did. No Jesse Ventura, mind
you, but..).
Now with Adamle: I haven't watched ALL of stuff (I have my limits with what
I can stomach), but he's TOTALLY incompitent. OK, he might have SOME
experience, but how many fans bother to find this out. So far as most ECW
fans know (not many of them), Uncle Vinny pulled this ham n' egger from the
street.
"MikeMW...@live.com" <tehMot...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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hobb...@yahoo.com
wrote:
> And what people should remember is a difference between just not being good
> at a job and being totally incompitent. When JBL went into the announcing
> booth, I was hard on him (as was a lot of others), but that was just his
> style of announcing. He pretty much knew the moves and terminology, he just
> needed a little prodding to do better (which he did. No Jesse Ventura, mind
> you, but..).
>
> Now with Adamle: I haven't watched ALL of stuff (I have my limits with what
> I can stomach), but he's TOTALLY incompitent. OK, he might have SOME
> experience, but how many fans bother to find this out. So far as most ECW
> fans know (not many of them), Uncle Vinny pulled this ham n' egger from the
> street.
Ben,
I wrote two weeks ago here and elsewhere that Adamle was badly miscast
as a backstage reporter when he debuted 3 months ago. They could've
moved Coach over from Smackdown, and it wouldn't have been as bad as
having Adamle move from Raw.
Let's consider the creative process at the moment. "Uncle Vinny" is
prematurely senile. Stephiekins is about to go on maternity leave for
the 2nd time in 3 years, and the staff is falling apart around her.
Hayes is under suspension and probably off on a Jack Daniels binge
right about now, for all we know. Goofwitz may have his moments, but
he's still about as smart as a pin prick left from being jabbed with a
rusty thumbtack. Blubberlips Rhodes is in Florida, but may be
regretting doing this move too soon.
J. C. Gilbert
Deadline
| More than anything, Lance should remember that Chairman
| Wackjob is going out of his way to desecrate the spirit &
| legacy of ECW. Adamle has experience as a play-by-play
| announcer (original American Gladiators)
-and was not very good at that either but at least he knew
the names of the contestants and gladiators. I don't know
how much time they had to fix the show, though.
This is likely a "Maria" type thing. She, like Adamle,
screwed up a name when she started her interviewing bit,
which was turned in to her excessively dumbass gimmick.
hobb...@yahoo.com
One big diff, D-line. Maria was a novice to start with. Adamle's
experience as a broadcaster extends nearly 30 years, from football to
American Gladiators to WWE. He was one of those guys who retired from
football and went straight to television.
J. C. Gilbert
Deadline
Yeah, which makes my point that it is a "gim". The only
other place I have heard him is "Am Glads"; he was not very
good but he was not "awf" like he is in ECW... Seems like
a "das" "W-tainment" scheme to me...
('TF? Verily.)