Jonathan Coachman
Jonathan William Coachman ( born August 12, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri), also known as " The Coach ", is an American journalist and former wrestling commentator. He has worked as a sports journalist for ESPN today.
Life
Youth and beginnings
Coachman was in his high school years of successful basketball players at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. After two successful seasons there, he joined the crew of the McPherson College 's. He was twice McPherson 's Athlete of the Year. Besides, he was interested in the theater, wrote the sports section of the school newspaper and commented on local radio, local basketball and football games. Later he worked for the native to Kansas TV station KMBC - TV.
Wrestling career
1999 Coachman began to work as an interviewer and commentator in the then World Wrestling Federation (now WWE). After a short feud with The Rock In 2001 he was a reporter in the Football League XFL, which belonged to the WWF. In 2003, to him at a heel and he became the assistant to the General Manger of Raw, Eric Bischoff. Later he became a commentator for the B -show Heat, where he worked with Al Snow. The team began a feud with the Raw commentators Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler.
With the help of Garrison Cade defeated Coachman at the Backlash PPV Tajiri in 2004. In 2004 and 2005 he hosted the WWE casting " Diva Search " and got his own columns in Raw Magazine and on the WWE website. He was officially the third member of commentators teams of Raw 2005. In October 2005 Coachman was involved in a storyline in which it came to the public dismissal of Jim Ross ( kayfabe ) by the McMahon family, in which Steve Austin was also involved. Actually, a match between Austin and the coach was scheduled at " Taboo Tuesday " where it should go to Ross' and Austin's work. However, Austin said from so there was a match between Batista and Coachman, which is, however, no longer went to the job of Ross.
The Official WWE were dissatisfied with Coachmans commentaries, so you replaced it with Joey Styles, but later brought back into the team. In January 2006, he was granted an appearance at the Royal Rumble and let him moderate in April, the Divas Bikini Contest. Then Coachman disappeared for a time from the scene, which was converted from the WWE in a storyline in which no one knew where befände the coach. As of May, he served as Executive Assistant of Vince McMahon, the Raw show. In this position, he helped the McMahons in a feud with D- Generation X. As of June 2007, he was even official General Manager of Raw.
With a win in a Battle Royal William Regal new GM and Coachman was demoted back to his post as assistant. From January 2008, he commented along with Michael Cole expenditure of SmackDown, but was replaced by Mick Foley in April and leads his career since then outside of the wrestling business continues.
Other works
Since 2007 Coachman also works as a commentator for American TV station MSG Network. Since August 2008 he has been at ESPN in both the TV division ( ESPNEWS ), as well as in radio as a presenter operates.