“Schiavone now is in the extremely rare position of being the morning sports anchor for both WDUN in Gainesville and WSB-AM in Atlanta simultaneously, even though the two stations have different owners (WDUN has a partnership with Cox Communications, which owns WSB-TV and WSB-AM. WSB-TV’s weather staffers broadcast weather on WSB-AM). Schiavone also does morning sports reports for WHIO-AM and WHIO-FM in Dayton, Ohio. Additionally, Schiavone is a writer for the Georgia Bulldogs Radio Network and produced the Best of the Bulldogs, which won the AP Award for Best Sports Program in 2004.[4] Schiavone owns his own radio production company, Blind Dog Sports.”

He was a big fish in the WWF’s small pond.

Now he’s a big fish in a bigger pond.

I think WWE fanboys need to get over the fact that the Rock is now bigger than wrestling and bigger than WWE. And should realize that the main reason the Rock stopped doing business with the WWE in 2003/04 was due to the Triple H and how the company was being run. Meltzer was all over it…Rocky didnt like Triple H’s reign of terror….wouldn’t put over Booker T in 2003 before WM XIX unless Booker was getting the title. So he put over Hurricane, who Triple H embarassed as soon as Rocky left.

As for The Rock acting like a dick at the HOF…HE WAS BEING THE ROCK!!! That’s what The Rock DOES.

What do you people want? Are you really hurt that The Rock won’t come back and give YOU another match? The Rock says he loves the business, he thanks it for giving him everything he has, but you say he only does this when someone ASKS him a question about it. WHEN THE HELL ELSE WOULD HE BRING IT UP? Do you want him to put up billboards of himself giving a thumbs up that say “THANK YOU VINCE AND WWE I WILL FOREVER BE IN YOUR DEBT!”.

As for walking up to strangers on the street and asking them who Dwayne Johnson is…yeah, that sounds like something that would go over well in public, lol.

Wrestling is a cool idea when you’re young but every single one of them should be planning for the day when they can permanently walk away and be something besides a wrestler. Too many don’t and wind up pretty sad stories.

I’ve loved Wrestling since I was a kid but in real life
Headlining a corny Disney movie > Headlining WrestleMania
every single time.

So far it’s the happy ending of happy endings as far as wrestlers go.

But guys like Ric Flair, who SHOULD HAD walked away from wrestling years ago, still shows up and slaves himself to McMahon. For example getting a beatdown from Jericho. Flair retired yet he can’t even stay away for a year. Flair embarrassed himself last Monday. And Flair is too stupid too realize McMahon never really liked him. The biggest rib IMO is getting demoted to Midcard after Flair’s title loss to Bret in 1992.

For posters who say they lost respect for Dwayne Johnson, don’t hate him cause he can move on and make money. And he didnt have to show up last year at the HOF thing. But he did, but yet some people forget that. I remember years ago The Rock was on David Letterman and he was still under contract with the WWE. Letterman called him Mr Johnson and only talked about his movie. Never about Wrestling. Thats when you know Rock made it.

I don’t have a problem with Rock leaving wrestling and doing movies, it’s his choice. But to say he still loves the business and thanks it for everything it gave him but only if someone forces the question on him. Like he’s ashamed of the business that made him a star. Proof: go up to a random person on the street and ask them who Dwayne Johnson is, they’ll probably blank. Ask them who The Rock is and they’ll know straight off. They’ll also likely say he’s a wrestler and not an actor.
It just pisses me off as someone who’s loved wrestling since I was a kid to see someone use it and then act like he’s above it afterwards. I can’t think of many other people that were as big of pompous dicks then Rock at the Hall of Fame last year.