WWE Release Rich Brennan

Another announcer bites the dust.

by John Bills
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Seemingly out of nowhere, World Wrestling Entertainment has released Rich Brennan from the company.

The announcer, real name Rich Bocchini, worked as the lead commentator for NXT before being promoted to SmackDown, where he had a good run before being replaced by Mauro Rannallo. Brennan also worked as a backstage interviewer, with his final chat coming this past Monday as he interrupted Becky Lynch's lunch (Becky Lunch?).

Brennan's response was fairly low-key. Twitter was where all the action happened, as his WWE account was deleted and his personal one came into use again. A simple 'Thank you. Come again #newadventures' followed, and that was that. Like ships passing in the night, Rich Brennan was gone.

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The release comes as something of a surprise as Brennan seemed to be favoured by the company, and was more than cromulent in all the roles he performed. One can only assume the release was amicable, and here's hoping that's the case. Brennan and WWE may have come to terms on his release, but I don't know how we, the WWE Universe, will come to terms with the loss.

Goodbye, sweet Milhouse.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.