10 People Who Had No Business In Professional Wrestling
6. Mike Adamle
In Mike Adamles first night on the job, he referred to Jeff Hardy as Jeff Harvey. That basically set the tone for things to come for the rest of his short tenure. Before his hiring in 2008, Adamle was a former professional football player, but perhaps most well-known for being an announcer on American Gladiators, which ended in 1996. Somehow 12 years later this helped him land a job in WWE, despite seeming to know nothing about the product.
Vince McMahon must have thought he struck gold with Adamles initial genuine mistakes. Because soon after he awarded his employee by letting him become a character that made more mistakes, but this time on purpose. He was even given the job of hosting ECW, in one of the most ridiculous wrestling promotions of all time. Adamle continued to fail upwards likely due to having nude photos of his boss. There is absolutely no proof of what I just wrote.
To add further insult to injury, Adamle briefly became the General Manager of Raw. Mercifully, someone in management must have convinced Vince that this joke had finally gone too far. Its a good thing too, at that pace, Adamle would probably be running the entire company by now.