Long-Time Spanish Language Announcer Carlos Cabrera Fired By WWE
Carlos Cabrera has been let go by WWE after 29 years with the company.
WWE has let go of one of its longest-serving broadcasters.
Per Hugo Savinovich of Lucha Libre Online, Carlos Cabrera has been fired by the market-leading promotion after 29 years of employment, having been a fixture in the company's Spanish language announce booth.
The news was broken via Twitter:-
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Tal y como acaba de reportar Hugo Savinovich en EXCLUSIVA para Lucha Libre Online, el legendario anunciador en español, Carlos Cabrera, ha sido despedido de la WWE luego de 29 años con la empresa. pic.twitter.com/QXu1gUA1aO
— Lucha Libre Online (@luchalibreonlin) February 17, 2022
Via Google Translate, here's that report in English:-
LAST MINUTE! As Hugo Savinovich has just reported EXCLUSIVELY for Lucha Libre Online, the legendary announcer in Spanish, Carlos Cabrera, has been fired from WWE after 29 years with the company.
There is currently no word on why WWE chose to part ways with Cabrera. Savinovich, who works for AAA at the moment, had sat with the 62-year-old as part of the Spanish language announce team from 1994 until 2011, when he was dismissed himself.
Savinovich's replacement, Marcelo Rodriguez, will take over Cabrera's role as the lead play-by-play announcer. Jerry Soto will sit in the booth alongside him.
A long-serving announcer on shows like Raw, SmackDown, and pay-per-views, Cabrera's "Spanish announce table" (and the destruction thereof) was used as a regular trope during the Attitude Era in particular, with wrestlers choosing to drive their opponents through it rather than the English booth. This changed years ago, with WWE's foreign-language teams no longer situation at ringside.