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Announcers
Ricardo Rodriguez (Jesus Rodriguez) 2010-2014
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Especially in the smark circles that follow the indies and developmental, where Rodriguez was primarily an in-ring talent and actually pretty good.
- Retroactive Recognition: In Real Life. Old footage of Rodriguez before his WWE career is regularly found on the Internet, including boxing
, being a dating show contestant, an extra on a porno, a random plant in the audience during a fight between a luchadore and an MMA fighter and a stuntman.
Commentators & Backstage Personalities
Corey Graves (Matt Polinsky) 2011-Present
Jerry Lawler (Jerry O'Neil Lawler) 1992-Present
Joey Styles (Joseph Carmine Bonsignore) 2005-2008
Josh Matthews (Josh Lomberger) 2001, 2002-2014
- Ensemble Dark Horse: He was this to a good portion of the IWC during the Lawler/Cole feud, due to the fact that he repeatedly lampshaded how insane everything was and was the only one regularly calling matches.
Matt Striker (Matthew Kaye) 2005-2013
- Badass Decay: Used to be an actual wrestler, then got put the announcing desk before becoming a backstage interviewer.
- Base-Breaking Character: Half of the IWC loves him for being a smark and mentioning things from wrestler's indy days, the other half thinks he's the most annoying commentator alive and needs to shut the hell up.
- Fridge Brilliance: Matt was an independent wrestler for five years, of course he knows his stuff.
Michael Cole (Michael Sean Coulthard) 1997-Present
Mike Adamle (Michael David Adamle) 2008
Scott Stanford 2009-2013
Todd Pettengill (Todd Clark Pettengill) 1993-1997, 2013
- The Scrappy: If he ever gets brought up nowadays, it's generally not for dignified reasons. It pretty much boils down at that he was just really, really annoying. (The facial◊ expressions◊ didn't help.) WrestleCrap, who inducted several events he prominently appeared in (such as the first episode of WWF Mania, and the 1996 and 1997 Slammy Awards) in particular made it a Running Gag of painting him as basically being the Screech for the New Generation-era WWF.
Todd Grisham 2004-2011
General Managers
"Anonymous Raw GM" 2010-2011
- Ass Pull: The Hornswoggle reveal, pretty obviously.
