Renee Young

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

Audacy

News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode 21 of the Sports Media Podcast features Renee Young, who was recently named as a fulltime commentator on Monday Night Raw, the WWE’s flagship show. Young is the first woman to hold that position. In the podcast, Young discusses why her six-year run at WWE has worked out as well as it has; how she found about getting the Raw job from Michael Cole, Triple H, Stephanie McMahon, and Vince McMahon; what her process is like to prepare for Monday Night Raw; how much she is aware of specific match activity versus storyline/backstory; how NXT helped develop her as an announcer; what her WWE audition was like; how her real-life will or will not impact what viewers will hear from her if Dean Ambrose (her real-life husband) is appearing on RAW; what makes Stephanie McMahon and Paul Heyman such great performers; how Heyman has helped her since her early days with WWE; which people in the company she hangs with while on the road; her newfound love of the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights; why The Shield would beat the nWo; the dream WWE match she’d like to call, and much more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. This is Richard Deich, and welcome to the sports media podcast. My producer, as always, is Lou Pellegrino. This week, it is a guest who was on the Sports Illustrated podcast three years ago, and she returns, but she returns being majorly in the news.
0:16.6	Renee Young made her WWE television debut on March 29, 2012,
0:26.7	and has since held a variety of on-air assignments for that company, as WWE fans know.
0:30.9	This month, in what is a historic announcement, no matter what you think of professional wrestling,
0:36.5	Renee Young was named as the full-time or as named as a full-time commentator on Monday Night Raw.
0:38.6	That is the WWB's flagship show and a program that regularly draws around 3 million viewers weekly against Monday Night Football.
0:44.3	It is a longtime juggernaut. Renée Young is also a native of Canada. We like that.
0:49.8	An alum of the score, which makes her a far more successful score alum than ESPN's Adnan
0:55.9	Verk.
0:56.7	Renee Young joins us on the sports media podcast.
1:00.7	Renee, thank you very much for doing this and congratulations.
1:03.5	Thank you.
1:04.1	First of all, shout out to Adnan-Virke because he's a badass and I love him.
1:08.5	And secondly, you kind of just psyched me out.
1:11.4	I mean, not like lead up to everything that's happened.
1:13.7	I'm like, man, I have butterflies right now thinking about it.
1:17.6	It's very exciting.
1:19.6	And I'm just hoping that I can really feel these shoes.
1:22.6	Art Serena, I'm glad you brought that up because this is my first question for you is this.
1:26.7	Why has this job?
1:28.3	Why has this six-year run that you're on at the WWE worked out as well as it has for you?
1:33.7	Oh, wow.
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