AEW’s Tony Schiavone recently missed the January 17 episode of Dynamite, and Ian Riccaboni would fill in for the legendary commentator. And now, during his podcast, 66-year-old Schiavone has revealed that he was absent because he had a stye in his right eye, which he initially thought was conjunctivitis.
“I had a little eye problem, a little stye in the right eye. Actually, it was more than one, and my eye was swollen shut last week. Thought I had conjunctivitis, which meant pinkeye and to stay away from everybody, but on Wednesday, I got a diagnosis that it was a stye. So yeah, I’m okay. I hate missing TV, but I was obviously back for Saturday. I’m really having a good time on Saturday. So I’ll be back this Wednesday, and just a part of being an old f*cker.”
Tony SchiavoneSchiavone broke into the business back in 1985, where he would host NWA’s World Championship Wrestling in front of a studio audience for Jim Crockett Promotions. Afterward, he jumped to WWE in 1989, but after just one year, he returned to WCW now under the ownership of Ted Turner. Then, following 11 years as WCW’s main play-by-play announcer, it appeared his career in the wrestling industry was unfortunately over when Vince McMahon purchased the company. Yet, he did work with TNA and MLW on a part-time basis over the next 16 years before AEW hired him, and he had a career renaissance.
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