I was tempted to set my alarm clock for 3am last night when I heard the news that Mike Adamle had become the play-by-play commentator for ECW.
Joey Styles has been the voice for both incarnations of Extreme Championship Wrestling but he was removed from this post yesterday and Mike Adamle was moved in.
For those of you who do not know Mike Adamle, he is that guy who shows up now and again on Monday Night Raw and totally botches every segment he has been on.
He even referred to Jeff Hardy as 'Jeff Harvey' on his first night on the job during the Royal Rumble in January.
In recent weeks I noticed that Adamle was moved away from the live portion of the broadcasts and was seen in the backstage area doing interviews. I figured that these backstage skits were probably pretaped to avoid any live hiccups.
Adamle has experience in the field, though. He was the main host of American Gladiators for years. His awkwardness and ineptitude in covering wrestling has been unintentionally comical, however.
I woke up and the first thing I did was read reviews of last night's show.
I wasn't wrong.
It appears as though he made countless mistakes throughout the hour long episode. One reviewer even said it felt like watching two people on their first date as there was a lot of awkward silences between Adamle and Tazz, or 'The Tazz' as Adamle called him at the start of the show.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was another Vince McMahon trick of disturbing the legacy of ECW to the point where people's memories of the company will be the rubbish that the WWE has offered as extreme since they bought the rights to one of their 1990's rivals.
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