Tony Schiavone recalls the Parking Lot Fight from the August 4 episode of AEW Rampage.
The 'Parking Lot Fight' match, which was contested between Best Friends (Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor) and the Blackpool Combat Club (Jon Moxley & Wheeler Yuta), was highly praised by fans, with some saying it was the best Rampage match in quite some time.
Many fans were also surprised to see Tony Schiavone during the bout, as he was joined by Paul Wight for commentary for the match. The two were live on the scene at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida, where the bout was taped.
On a recent episode of What Happened When, Schiavone talked about the bout and noted that he was thrilled to do the play-by-play style once again.
“I was really thrilled that I was able to call a match and be able to call the parking lot match because I’d talked to Tony about me doing some play-by-play again. I said I’d like to give it a shot, and then he let me do that. He and I worked together on it. The only thing I was really happy about my work was, like most people in broadcasting, I’m very critical of my own work. I just was glad my voice held out. I was thrilled about that. My voice made it the entire way. I didn’t think it would. But I was happy about that."
Schiavone then went on to talk about his hectic travel schedule from last week, where he visited four states in four different days.
“Let me start on Wednesday in Tampa, when we did Dynamite. Then I had to go to Jacksonville on Thursday to do the parking lot match. So we did that on Thursday. We stayed so late doing the parking lot match that I didn’t go to bed at all. I just went basically right back to the hotel and packaged my bags and flew to Detroit. Did an autograph signing, and it was really good. I had a great time. Then the next morning, got up early and flew to Atlanta. Picked up my car and drove to [the arena] for the event that night, Collision."
Elsewhere during the podcast, Schiavone praised the Ricky Starks/Ricky Steamboat encounter from the August 5 episode of Rampage. Fans can learn more by clicking here.
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