Tony Schiavone

The year 2020 marked the fifth decadeTony Schiavonehas announced professional wrestling.A native of the tiny town of Craigsville, Virginia, Tony grew up loving pro wrestling, baseball,and dogs. His sports announcing career began in Staunton,Virginia, at radio station WTON,where he did basketball and football play-by-play and was an afternoon disc jockey. He moved to Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1981 to do baseball play-by-play for the Yankees’ Single A team in the South Atlantic League. There he met Lois Berger. Now, after more than 40 years of marriage, he and Lois have five children, six grandchildren, and two dogs. Tony and Lois residein Marietta, Georgia, where they have lived in the same house for over 30 years. Lovingly known by wrestling fans across the world as “The Voice of Your Childhood,” Tony is currently an Announcer and Senior Producer with All Elite Wrestling and co-host of the podcast What Happened When with Conrad Thompson on the Cumulus Podcast Network,www.whwmonday.com, and www.AdFreeShows.com. He can also be found on Twitter and Instagram under the handle@tonyschiavone24.  A lifelong fan of comics,Butts in Seats: The Tony Schiavone Story is his first foray into thecomic book industry in a professional capacity.