Adnan Virk Says Commentating In WWE Was Like Catching Up To A Freight Train

Adnan Virk was hired as part of the Monday Night RAW commentary team as he made his debut right after WrestleMania 37. Unfortunately for Virk, he simply couldn’t get used to his role as a WWE commentator and was panned by fans every week. It seems Virk has an interesting view of his time in WWE.

In the end, Adnan Virk made his departure from the company and stated that the weekly ”grind” when it came to travelling was simply too much for him and his family. It was earlier reported that Virk was going to be fired before their mutual release.

While speaking to Peter Klein on Coach Potato Diary, Adnan Virk talked about his time in WWE. Adnan Virk admitted that commentating in WWE was like trying to catch up to a freight train.

“The biggest thing for me is, I loved wrestling as a kid but I didn’t watch as much as I got older. I got offered this opportunity to audition and why not, of course I’d love to do this. They sent me a few matches to look at and I’m kind of like an actor, so you give me a few scenes and I studied really hard and I nailed those three scenes, but then you actually have to do the whole play on Broadway. That’s a much different thing than doing a scene study of three scenes. The biggest challenge for me is that, it’s hard to be really well-versed in the sport when you’re trying to catch a freight train that’s already going 100 miles an hour. I’m running alongside the train trying to catch up. It’s hard to make up for that gap in time.

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One thing that helped is, unlike baseball or other sports, you don’t have to say, ‘Remember three years ago at WrestleMania and what happened,’ you actually never do that, which is very different from normal sports. When I was broadcasting on Raw, you’re only looking at what happened the previous week or two weeks. That’s it. It was never about six months ago. In that instance, you don’t really need to know the history of wrestling, but as a play-by-play guy, you have to know the moves and mechanics and I think, in all honesty, I struggled to adapt to that. Ultimately, I wasn’t good enough for that position. The big thing I missed with conventional sports is we have incredible researchers. In baseball and MLB Network, NHL, and ESPN, you have people who will hand you notes and there are five notes on each person and stats. In wrestling, you don’t have that. You just go there and you’re calling Charlotte Flair and it’s up to you to do your own research and all that stuff. In hindsight, maybe if I hired Peter Klein to say, ‘give me all the notes you have,’ I maybe would have had a better idea with storylines.”

Even Jim Ross previously said that pro wrestling fans were too quick to judge Adnan Virk. Tom Phillips was also shocked that Adnan Virk replaced him in the company. It is unlikely Adnan Virk will ever return to WWE in the future.

h/t to Fightful for the quotes.

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