Adnan Virk on feeling like the "weakest link" during Raw commentary run

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

Adnan Virk recently spoke with Peter Klein of Couch Potato Diary about his short stay in WWE.

Although he mostly spoke positive about his time with the company, he noted that they "didn't give me any training" and that some people thought that was "unfair." He pointed out that while other sports don't throw people into the fire like that, he ultimately recognized "that's the way WWE does things so no excuses. That's my fault that I wasn't good enough."

Virk and WWE parted ways in May, less than two months after he started as the lead commentator on Raw. MMA commentator Jimmy Smith, also new to WWE and pro wrestling announcing, replaced him.

Virk also spoke about his relationship with Vince McMahon, noting that he didn't meet the WWE chairman right away which he had noted in the past.

"It's not like I met with Vince before my first show. I literally was just prepping on my own, doing my best, and Michael Cole was helping out. My first show was April 12. I didn't meet Vince. I heard his voice in my ear at one point and he was giving some direction during the show. I met him after the second show. He summoned me in. I met him. He was very polite and very respectful and he basically just gave really good feedback. He went through everything....very detailed. At the end, he said, 'You're doing a good job. Best of luck.'"

There was an struggle for Virk to adapt to the wrestling commentary style which he attributed to not learning the "moves and mechanics." Virk also noted that he was used to other sports commentary where he would receive notes on each athlete and their stats.

It was also made very clear by Virk that he couldn't do the 52-week schedule, noting that he "really didn't like" the travel aspect of the job.

Although he praised fellow commentators Byron Saxton and Corey Graves, he said he always felt like the weakest link.

"Everyone there is awesome. Corey Graves is phenomenal. I think he's a huge talent. I think Byron Saxton is a huge talent. You never want to be in a situation where you're the weakest link and I knew I was. That's never a good feeling to have. Those guys were such good teammates because it's like a baseball team. 'We know you need some help, we're here to help you out. You're new, just lean on us and we're good to go' which was so generous of them."


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None of this is really news since he's said most of it already. We knew he didn't get any training bc he was hired and called Raw like two days later lol what I liked was him saying he was used to getting stat sheets on the athletes in other sports....bruh you gonna have to pull up prowrestlingwikia for that.

Also considering his comments on the travel, even if he'd gotten more training I can't see it working out once WWE went back on the road. Jimmy Smith is handling everything fine in a basically the same situation, he basically survived the trial by fire.

 

[Kiffy Lube]

What did anyone expect when they removed Samoa Joe from commentary after he got better every fuckin' week?

 

[Cwalker]

Hiring a guy that knows nothing about wrestling to be a wrestling commentator won’t end well.

They’re lucky Jimmy Smith is working out

 

[Chris]

Hiring a guy that knows nothing about wrestling to be a wrestling commentator won’t end well.

They’re lucky Jimmy Smith is working out

Yeah my thoughts exactly lmao it kinda says a lot about Jimmy to me that he didn't go the same way as Virk

 

[Cwalker]

Yeah my thoughts exactly lmao it kinda says a lot about Jimmy to me that he didn't go the same way as Virk

I’m not a huge Jimmy Smith fan but he’s definitely better than Virk was

 

[Chris]

I like Jimmy quite a bit actually, blows my mind that they hired him right after Virk didn't work though and threw him into the same situation. Felt like they just really wanted to force someone new on Raw

 

[Cwalker]

I think they’re looking to groom the next lead announcer. I thought it was gonna be Tom Phillips but you can tell they’re looking for the new guy. Won’t be for another 10 years or so but they’re looking

 

[Adapting]

Because he was? lmao.

He wasn't very good or knowledgeable about the sport. Plus his voice wasn't great. Just all around bad choice unfortunately, hopefully he'll find success elsewhere.