Back in August of 2018, Renee Young became the first-ever female member of the RAW Commentary Team, which led to a full-time position for her a month later, replacing “The Coach” Jonathan Coachman.
Recently Renee was removed from her role as a member of the RAW commentary team and has since been serving as a special on-air contributor backstage Friday night on SmackDown Live on FOX. She has also been hosting WWE Backstage on FS1.
Renee Young recently spoke to the SI Media Podcast and revealed her feelings about the job as a member of the RAW Commentary team. She revealed that she never felt comfortable in the role, and talked about how stressful of a year it was.
“I never felt comfortable doing that job, it was a very stressful year, to be completely honest.
I’m here in WWE and the first female to come into [the backstage] role. I needed something else to chew on. Michael Cole and Triple H pulled me aside and said, ‘You’re going to do commentary on Raw.’ I was like, ‘What? Why? Who approved this?’ But, like with anything, I was gonna try to figure it out. To go out there and call three hours of wrestling, coming from my role backstage, I like to have more of a bubbly personality and that was what fans have been drawn to. Or my sarcastic side. It’s hard to do that on commentary, especially when you’ve got [Corey Graves], who is great at that. But also stepping in there as a third person. I’m used to being the A person. I’m trying to jump in there and everything has kinda already been said. It was odd. I tried to come at it from a fan standpoint, but that doesn’t always work. I felt misdirection about what my purpose was when I was out there.”
“It was a cool feather to put in my cap. I’m not one to back away from something. I wanted it to be a thing to work and I wanted to excel at that. Not being good at something is a tough pill to swallow for me. It just wasn’t really working.”
If you use any of the quotes above please credit SI Media podcast with a h/t to Fightful for the transcription.
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