Talk is Jericho Recap w/ Tony Schiavone – Leaving Vince McMahon for WCW, Working with Bobby Heenan, “What Happened When” Podcast, More!

Schiavone says he started many shows in WCW without a format. Sometimes assistants would bring them out segment by segment, on live television. He points out that this was a challenge.
Schiavone says he and Bobby Heenan were very good friends. They would travel together and Heenan was so funny. Unfortunately they had a big blow up at one point, and Schiavone blames himself for that. Schiavone took control over the announcers at one point, and he had to sign off on all the announcers’ payments and had to do performance reviews as well.

When Heenan was fired by WCW, Schiavone’s boss told him to avoid contacting Heenan, who had threatened a lawsuit. Schiavone says he should have ignored his boss’ request and called Heenan, his good friend, right away, but he didn’t. That was his fault, but thankfully they were able to put that behind them years later.