Mike Tenay Doesn’t Rule Out Making Commentary Comeback

Mike Tenay is a legendary sports broadcaster whose name is synonymous with excellence in the world of professional wrestling. He was the voice of TNA for years until his exit long ago. Now Tenay made it clear he doesn’t rule returning to pro wrestling commentary.

Tenay, who was known as the voice of TNA, performed commentary for the company until his departure several years ago. Since then, he hasn’t performed commentary for any other promotion.

Prior to TNA’s Bound for Glory event, President Scott D’Amore inducted Mike Tenay and the late Don West to the Hall of Fame. While speaking with Mike Johnson of PWInsider, Mike Tenay revealed that he doesn’t rule out returning to pro wrestling commentary.

”Would I have liked to have continued in the role (as TNA lead announcer before I was swapped out)? Yeah, probably for a couple more years. I reflect back on it and the funny thing is I’ve spent more reflection in the last couple of weeks, in terms of preparation for what I’m going to say (during the Hall of Fame speech). I’ve done more reflection in the last couple of weeks about my career than I have in the years since I’ve announced. In my head, I kind of moved on, and it’s actually been nice to reflect back and think of so many funny stories. Things that went down through the years in terms of — and I know it went on forever on that but in terms of me coming back, would I ever?

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It’s the weirdest thing… I never wanted to have multiple retirements, come back, retirements. Pretty much everybody does in the history of professional wrestling. I felt like it was kind of a clean break. I follow everything religiously. I don’t think it would be that tough of a transition if I did want to come back. I don’t know if every company wants an old guy on their TV show. At the same time, would I rule any possibility of a comeback out? I would say no, I wouldn’t rule it out, but it would have to be under my terms.

I don’t know that any company is willing to have it under my terms. It’s nothing that I really feel in my heart like I need to go back and do. Again, in this reflection of the last couple of weeks, I think I’m kind of happy with everything that I did. And I liked moving on from it. Right place, right time. I can’t say I never would do it, but it’s not something that takes up a lot of my time thinking about thinking, gosh, I need to get back to doing wrestling announcing.”

With TNA set to begin its new era at the Hard To Kill pay-per-view on January 13th, only time will tell whether Mike Tenay will return to TNA as part of the commentary team, as fans would love that.

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