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Craig Carton to WWE?

Once Curtis & Kuby reunite on WFAN, C-squared's gonna need something to pay the bills...
 
prescott said:
Carton is being looked at as a announcer for WWE's Smackdown telecasts as a side gig. Why I am not surprised.
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This is a BS post although its pretty funny that someone came up with it.

One of Smackdown's commentators, John Bradshaw Layfield, is coming out of retirement and will be an active wrestler on Monday Night RAW. So there IS an opening on Smackdown's announce team, but this thread is the only mention of Carton. Behind the scenes stuff in wrestling gets around fast on the internet, and if Carton was an actual candidate, I wouldn't be reading about it on this board first. Nice try though.
 
JoeFromTomsRiver said:
prescott said:
Carton is being looked at as a announcer for WWE's Smackdown telecasts as a side gig. Why I am not surprised.
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Behind the scenes stuff in wrestling gets around fast on the internet, and if Carton was an actual candidate, I wouldn't be reading about it on this board first.
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Mosty likely true, you must be a big wrassling fan. As a wrestling and radio fan myself, I thought WPLJ's Todd Pettingill had a decent run in the then WWF. Anyone else get a kick out of WWE's Jonathan Coachman as a quasi-serious sports talker on MSG?
 
Let's not forget another one of Vince McMahon's henchmen, Matt Vasgersian, one of the play-by-play guys from the first and only season of the XFL, now doing regional action for the NFL Sundays on Fox.
 
Rob Bartlett used to do some comedic commentary when Monday Night RAW first started, and like you said, Pettengill was involved also, so there IS a history of McMahon recruiting radio guys. However, that was back when RAW was done from New York EVERY week, not all over the country like RAW and SD are done now.

Also, both Pettengill and Bartlett were basically just "throw-ins" on the telecast. In the case of Smackdown now, whoever replaces JBL will be the driving force behind putting over the talent and moving the storylines along. I don't see someone who is doing it as a "side-job" getting the gig.

BTW, McMahon also had Opie and Anthony doing some XFL pre-game show live from the now defunct WWE restaurant in Times Square.
 
JoeFromTomsRiver said:
McMahon also had Opie and Anthony doing some XFL pre-game show live from the now defunct WWE restaurant in Times Square.
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Yes, the "XFL Pregame" emanating from what was then the "WWF New York" (now a Hard Rock) Saturday nights at 7:30. As I understand it, it was only aired on WNBC in New York, and none of the other affiliates on the network. I think WNBC weekend sports anchor Bruce Beck was on the show, as well.
 
Back to you, Rusty.


But seriously - Carton has already complained on-air that he hates being away from his wife and kids so much. I don't exactly think he'd dig a WWE travel schedule.
 
DToTheJ said:
Once Curtis & Kuby reunite on WFAN, C-squared's gonna need something to pay the bills...
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What makes you believe that there is even a remote possibility of this occurring?
 
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