Tony Schiavone: The Return Of Skia-Vone

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

What happened when WCW closed in 2001? Well, Tony Schiavone quit the wrestling business cold-turkey for one. Tony’s talking about the rise and fall of WCW, his near 20-year absence from wrestling, and what recently brought him back. Tony’s also got stories about his early years working for Jim Crockett, his short run with Vince McMahon and WWF, the Monday Night Wars, why he jumped to WCW, and the message Tony received from Vince on his first day on the job at WCW. Plus, Tony shares backstage and road tales about Gorilla Monsoon, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, Jesse Ventura, Bruce Prichard, Vince Russo, and the NWO.

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0:00.0	TALK IS CHERICO BEAMING TALK IS CHERICO
0:07.0	TALK IS CHERICO MAMA TALK IS BAY
0:13.0	Welcome to Talk is Jericho, it's the pod of thunder and rock n roll.
0:17.0	And today, former WCW and WWE announcer Tony Shuvani, or Ski of Own as I used to call him,
0:23.0	makes his talk as Jericho debut.
0:25.0	And all about his days with WCW, his brief one year stint at WWE, he's talking about why he made the jump to WCW after such a short run with Vince McMahon,
0:34.0	how Vince reacted to Tony's leaving, and what led to WCW's decline in an eventual end.
0:39.0	Tony's also talking about why he quit the business cold turkey after WCW, and how he came back into the business through his podcast.
0:46.0	What happened when with Conrad Thompson?
0:49.0	We love Conrad on the show obviously. Tony's done a lot of great stories about his early days at Jim Crockett Promotions.
0:54.0	Hulk Hogan and the NWO, the Monday Night Wars, his infamous line on WCW TV when Mick Foley was made WWE Champion,
1:00.0	and working and traveling with Bobby the Brain Heenan, so let's get to it. Tony Shuvani on Talk is Jericho starting now.
1:08.0	We are here.
1:09.0	So for the first time, I think in about 20 years, the bigger union of Ski of Own, about that, Chris Jericho, Tony Shuvani is here.
1:17.0	But yeah, Matt, 20 years.
1:19.0	Okay.
1:20.0	I was as the maiden ox in the door right now.
1:22.0	I was gone for two hours waiting for you guys, but now I'm doing interviews, so we have kept to come back later.
1:29.0	The real behind the scenes stuff.
1:31.0	So yeah, like 20 years since I saw you last.
1:36.0	Okay.
1:37.0	Let's get this live on the thing.
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