10 Worst WWE Moments Of 2008
2. Adamle Becomes Raw GM
...made Mike the new Raw GM on the 28 July '08 flagship?!
WWE took an announcer who had limited product knowledge and was woefully out of place on ECW, and they (in their infinite wisdom) decided to turn him into a recurring authority figure on their biggest brand. Adamle was a fish out of water as the General Manager of Raw. The promotion would have been as well drafting in some celeb who knew nothing about wrestling to fill that spot.
Mike's 3 month reign of terror included plenty of boring promos and announcements, and he never really seemed to have a clue what was going on. Shane McMahon was the one who announced he was new GM, and it wasn't lost on anybody that he would've been a preferable choice to Adamle. Hell, anybody would've been. You could've given the gig to future Raw guest host Bob Barker and he'd have made a better fist of things than our Mikey.
Raw was, is and probably always will be WWE's television focal point. So, to pluck an out of his depth 'C' string announcer from ECW (where he was tanking) and think he was going to thrill fans tuning in on Monday nights was frankly crazy. It was a bonafide 'chuck at wall, see what sticks' moment in time. There was no reasonable justification for giving a role this important to Mike f'n Adamle!
He'll go down as one of the worst Raw GMs of all time, guaranteed, but what did WWE think was going to happen here? Did they honestly believe he'd suddenly develop charisma and become the latest version of Teddy Long?