WWE Hires New Commentator

The WWE commentary crew gets a new addition...

by Andrew Pollard
Blake Howard Blake Chadwick
XFN

WWE has made an addition to its commentary personnel in the form of Blake Chadwick.

As reported by Fightful Select, Chadwick began work with the market leader earlier this week, and he'll be going by the WWE name of Blake Howard from here on out.

Fightful notes that Blake's first night with the company was this past Tuesday, where he teamed with Byron Saxton as the commentary team for the episode of NXT LVL UP that was taped for tomorrow night's outing for that weekly show.

Advertisement

Prior to joining WWE, Blake Chadwick has been involved in the wrestling business as far back as 2013. The Norfolk, Virginia native has notably called the action for the likes of Ring Warriors, WrestleCade, West Coast Wrestling Connection, and Virginia Championship Wrestling.

As noted by Blake himself during an interview with VoyageMIA last year, his career to date has seen him work in 15 different states doing "play-by-play commentary, ring announcing, interviewing, and hosting" for pro wrestling, combat sports, and high school and professional basketball and football. He also touted his "energy and consistency and overcoming any adversity" as key traits to his broadcasting work.

Advertisement
Senior Writer
Senior Writer

Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.