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Ex-WWE Announcer Talks Michael Cole’s Temper & Fake Company Culture

April 11, 2019

There was a story yesterday of former NFL player Pat McAfee almost quitting WWE after being yelled at by Michael Cole during WrestleMania weekend

Former WWE commentator and ring announcer Alex Del Barrio didn’t pull any punches when describing the work culture in WWE and how Michael Cole’s attitude can be hot and heated depending on who he was interacting with and Barrios was allegedly on the negative end of Cole’s wrath. He does go on to say that Cole is a great play-by-play man and teacher when the reigns are off him, but other aspects of working with WWE’s lead voice leads to bullying and fake team culture The lengthy Twitter thread is below:

https://twitter.com/alexdelbarrio/status/1116066926818660358

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Del Barrio worked with WWE under the NXT brand as a commentator and ring announcer from 2015-2016.

Dominic started at WrestleZone in April of 2018.

He is a book reviewer for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, loves Penguins hockey, Pirates baseball and the lowly New York Jets.

Dominic also hosts a weekly Pittsburgh comedy podcast with his brother called The Keystone Cast and runs a Pittsburgh-based sports & pop culture blog called The Keystone Statement.

He lived in Philadelphia for five years before setting up shop back in Pittsburgh.

Feel free to rip him on Twitter @DominicDeAngelo.