Ricky Jackson Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Speaking of WCW... RIP Lee Marshall http://www.kfbk.com/articles/kfbk-news-461777/lee-marshall-voice-of-tony-the-12292486/ I didn't know he had been the voice of Tony the Tiger since 1995. He did have a good voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hammerva Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Somewhere there is a truly depressing Nitro party going on right now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 RIP "Stagger" Lee i'll always remember his random appearance at WM 2 oh and him getting beat up by Meng and Barbarian at World War 3 1996 for some reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shakla Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Speaking of WCW... RIP Lee Marshall http://www.kfbk.com/articles/kfbk-news-461777/lee-marshall-voice-of-tony-the-12292486/ I didn't know he had been the voice of Tony the Tiger since 1995. He did have a good voice. 2005, radio station goofed up their facts. Thurl Ravenscroft (good potential manager name, a few generations ago) died in 2005 and did Tony til he passed. Lee Marshall, not sure what to say, although it amused me that the 1-800-COLLECT Nitro parties or whatever were a thinly-veiled way to get him away from the WCW staff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 Me and my brother joked that when he did the phone stuff he was just backstage or off-camera but in sight of the broadcast booth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricR Posted April 28, 2014 Report Share Posted April 28, 2014 When I watched a bunch of AWA TV for the 80s project I developed an appreciation for Lee Marshall's cool and uninhibited love for Ricky Rice. I started noticing him getting to more-than-friends territory when commentating Rice matches, and I told my buddy about this while we were watching AWA. Two minutes later Marshall says "Would you look at Ricky Rice's thighs? Mmm Mmm Mmm." I could not have planned it better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted April 29, 2014 Report Share Posted April 29, 2014 I'll always remember Marshall's commentary during Superclash III, and the enthusiasm with which he'd say "Steve Do It To It Cox!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 I might be in a minority but I LOVED Lee Marshall for some reason. He was always shit on by hardcores on the internet and I just didn't see it. I thought he was great I'm also in the minority who thinks Larry Z was a fantastic commentator in the 90's......so yeah, I'm an odd duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 Tony Schiavone gets a lot of crap, but from about 1993 to early 1996 I've found him to be pretty darn underrated. He had great chemistry with Jesse Ventura, and I wish they had been able to stay together longer. Just as he was building up nice chemistry with Bobby Heenan they felt the need to insert Dusty Rhodes into the mix. That's where I really feel that things started to go downhill for Schiavone, and Starrcade '95 was probably the breaking point. He gets unmercifully ragged on by Dusty for bothering to actually call the action in the ring and call moves by their names. You can hear Schiavone slowly losing the will to fight back until by the end of the night he's gone from calling a German Suplex a German Suplex to calling it a throw to the mat to appease the idiotic Dusty. It's kind of sad to hear actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohtani's jacket Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 I love me some Tony Schiavone, but when did he start developing a rapport with Bobby? When Bobby first jumped they were unbearable together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 Tony Schiavone gets a lot of crap, but from about 1993 to early 1996 I've found him to be pretty darn underrated. Schiavone was excellent during the early nWo days too. He had some terrific moments and really helped get the angle over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 I never understood why Lee was positionned as the female wrestling specialist in WCW. He had that cool deep voice though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillThompson Posted April 30, 2014 Report Share Posted April 30, 2014 I love me some Tony Schiavone, but when did he start developing a rapport with Bobby? When Bobby first jumped they were unbearable together. Around the middle of 95 I'd say. They were never great together, but around that time they finally started feeding off of one another rather than just doing their own thing. Then WCW goes and inserts Dusty at the end of 95 and the announcing immediately turns into a bunch of unintelligible crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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