Greatest Wrestling Commentators w/ Sean Mooney
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Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Tommy Dreamer talk to one of the greats, someone who's never been on the Busted Open Podcast before. Sean Mooney joins us right now on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. The legendary Mr. Sean Mooney. Sir, how are you? And thank you so much for the time.
Thanks for having me. It only took longer for me to get an action figure to, we're coming on this show. Finally got one.
I got to listen. You're somebody we can, we get this with anybody that we talk to that's involved in wrestling on the announcer side, play by play or color commentator, you know, you've done so much before and after. So, you know, you, you worked with, with doing baseball, like talk about that transition going in to professional wrestling.
Wow, that's a lot of ground to cover. Yeah, I worked for Major League Baseball Productions. That's how I ended up starting in the business, at least working in production. And that's what I initially did. And we did highlight films and This Week in Baseball. And the way this all crazy situation happened was we started to branch out to do other things. And they did a show called Light Moments in Sports. I don't know if anybody remembers it, but Joe Namath, they got Joe Namath to host it. And they wanted to go out and do these bits where they could, you know, it's kind of one of the first blooper shows, sports blooper shows. And Joe certainly couldn't go out there with his knees. So I raised my hand and like, I'll do whatever you guys want me to do.
And they had me doing all kinds of crazy things, right. Writing camels and, you know, going to paintball camps and that kind of thing. And I went to the monster factory. Somebody came up with an idea. They had an in to one of the wrestling schools and Larry sharp. Let us in. And I went there and, you know, of course they beat the crap out of me and we just, we had a really good time, but it was a great segment. And Vince apparently saw this. It was on the NBC affiliates. And I had a friend who was working at Hamilton at the time, the production facility. And he called me up and said, Vince McMahon wants you to come up here and audition. And I was like, what? You know, I knew about what was going on with professional wrestling at the time.
This was like 1987. So it was really blowing up. And I took the train. I was living in Manhattan at the time. I took the train up and auditioned and sold the broom. And two weeks later, I was working for the WWF. And so it was wild. And Tommy, I wanted to bring up something to you because you might find it amusing that your greatest nemesis, Scott Levy, was at the school at the time. I connected with him later and put the dots together, but he was at the school. And in this segment, he was going by Scotty the Body then. And I did this, you know, stupid interview thing with him.
What led Sean Mooney to transition from baseball to professional wrestling?
And I remember seeing it later. Somebody sent it to me. I'm like... that guy looks familiar. And I did a podcast with him later, you know, prime time with Sean Mooney. And I said, look, I don't know if you're going to remember this. And he he's like, oh, my God. He goes, yeah, that was like one of the first television things that I did, you know, like actually felt that I was tested to see if I could do a promo. But it was crazy that he was at that school and we know how his career went. So that's how it all started. I ended up in Stanford, Connecticut, working at
the television facility doing the event center i'm definitely going to look that up because uh those things are i love seeing stuff like that before you start now uh hang on when you said you were this week in baseball that was one of my favorite shows really uh What, you worked on production on that show?
Yeah, I was a producer. I actually produced it. People go back in credits that- How about that? I had a whole other world back then that I was actually a producer for a year on the show with Mel. Yeah. And it was just an incredible experience in my life. I mean, I was 22 when I went back there with a couple of bags.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:06
2
What led Sean Mooney to transition from baseball to professional wrestling?
3:06–6:37
3
How did Sean Mooney's early experiences shape his broadcasting style?
6:37–11:12
4
What challenges did Sean Mooney face when starting with WWF?
11:12–14:32
5
Which legendary wrestling figures influenced Sean Mooney's career?
14:32–18:17
6
What memorable moments from wrestling does Sean Mooney recount?
18:17–20:46
7
How did Sean Mooney navigate his relationship with wrestlers like Randy Savage?
20:46–24:44
8
What insights does Sean Mooney share about the evolution of wrestling commentary?
24:44–30:52
Speakers
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