NEWS: Taz Calls Out Mauro Ranallo

March 18, 2017

NEWS: Taz Calls Out Mauro Ranallo

NEWS: If you watched this past week's edition of SmackDown LIVE, you probably noticed that the lead announcer of the SmackDown crew, Mauro Ranallo, was absent from the broadcast. Mauro was caught up in inclement so he called in to miss the show, leaving SmackDown with only two announcers, JBL and Tom Phillips. Former ECW original and WWE announcer, Taz, didn't take kindly to Ranallo's absence and did not mince words on his own podcast, The Taz Show,

"You can not miss a show. You can’t. You can’t miss a show. When you miss a show – in no order of preference – you get heat with the locker room, you get heat with your boss, you get heat with your broadcast colleagues. It’s just not a regular job. You are there once a week, and you are making a lot of money with a massive, massive platform. You’ve got to be there. You’ve got to make the shot. No matter what happens. Mauro is from Canada, okay, so he’s well-versed when it comes to weather and snow. People knew the storm was coming for days. You have to prepare yourself to get to that town early.”

Taz went further and indicated that because Ranallo missed a show so close to WrestleMania, Ranallo may be close to losing his job to Tom Phillips. Taz speculated that Ranallo may be too focused on his side projects to be able to do his job effectively. Former WWE announcer Josh Matthews also tweeted criticisms of Ranallo's absence and legendary Hall of Fame announcer, Jim Ross, has been retweeting Taz' critiques.