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Lee Marshall (announcer)

Professional wrestling announcer and radio personality

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name	Lee Marshall
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birth_name	Marshall Aaron Mayer
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birth_place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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death_place	Santa Monica, California, U.S.
names	Lee Marshall
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debut	1968
retired	2001

Lee Marshall (born Marshall Aaron Mayer; November 28, 1949 – April 26, 2014) was an American professional wrestling announcer and radio personality. In wrestling, Marshall worked as an announcer and commentator for the WWE, the American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Women of Wrestling (WOW!).

Professional wrestling announcing

World Wrestling Federation

Marshall was briefly with the World Wrestling Federation as a ring announcer. He was the ring announcer for the Los Angeles portion of WrestleMania 2.

American Wrestling Association

In 1986, Marshall joined the broadcast team when the AWA Championship Wrestling show was on ESPN.

World Championship Wrestling

In January 1996, he signed a three year contract with World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he was known as "Stagger Lee", likely a reference to the Lloyd Price song of the same name.

Marshall made his WCW pay-per-view debut at Uncensored (1996). Marshall was also one of the announcers at the 1996 World War 3 pay-per-view at the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia, covering the third ring with Larry Zbyszko. During the early stages of the three-ring, 60-man Battle Royal, the Four Horsemen and the Dungeon of Doom battled outside the ring and in the ensuing fight, Marshall was knocked down and repeatedly kicked legitimately to the head and chest by the Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) while on the floor. After the fight moved back toward the locker room, Marshall managed to get himself up and finish calling the match.

In November 1996, Marshall began a weekly 60 second segment on WCW Monday Nitro called "On The Road" when he placed a phone call to Tony Schiavone via 1-800-COLLECT from somewhere in America to plug the following week's Nitro.

In January 1998, TBS added WCW Thunder to their schedule with Marshall as main co-host alongside Tony Schiavone and (real life close friend) Bobby Heenan. Later that year, he would join Mark Madden calling WCW Pay Per View events on the WCW website. Marshall's last WCW appearance was at Starrcade (1998) interviewing The Giant. Marshall left WCW shortly after the PPV due to a contract dispute.

Women of Wrestling

He was also involved in the Great Western Forum-based Women of Wrestling promotion and served as its play-by-play announcer. He was partnered with company owner David McLane, who served as the color commentator on the syndicated TV show, and worked with Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, the color commentator on the WOW pay-per-view on February 4, 2001.

Radio and music

Marshall was also a longtime radio announcer, working at such stations as KABC and KGFJ (now KYPA) and KBLA and KHJ in Los Angeles, KRIZ in Phoenix and CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Detroit). In the early 2000s hosted an oldies AM show at 1450 the Boomer, Ventura CA. At CKLW, he was one of the anchors for the station's "20/20 News" updates, and at KDAY, he was "King News", bringing attention to the issue of gang violence. Marshall made an appearance in the rap video for We're All in the Same Gang as King News telling the gangbangers "they just don't get it."

Other works

Marshall also served as narrator of Larryboy: The Cartoon Adventures, a direct-to-video spin-off of the Christian animated series VeggieTales.

He provided the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger in commercials from 1999 to 2014, succeeding Thurl Ravenscroft.

Death

Marshall died in Santa Monica on April 26, 2014, of esophageal cancer. He was 64 years old.

Awards and accomplishments

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- Worst Television Announcer (1998)

References

[http://www.wrestlingepicenter.com/articles/138408892.shtml "Christy Hemme, Lee Marshall, Reality Star Trains To Wrestle"], wrestlingepicenter.com; accessed April 28, 2014.
Chawkins, Lee. (May 6, 2014). "Lee Marshall dies at 64; voice of Tony the Tiger". Los Angeles Times.
[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-29-ca-1320-story.html Putting the Rap on Gang Bangers : As KDAY's King News, Lee Marshall uses his on-air pulpit to bully gang members into changing their ways], articles.latimes.com, accessed May 1, 2014
(5 September 2010). "We're all the same gang".
[http://voice123.com/leemarshall Profile, voice123.com]; accessed April 28, 2014.
(30 April 2014). "Lee Marshall, Voice Of "Tony The Tiger" Dies Aged 64 In Santa Monica: - Santa Monica Mirror".
"Lee Marshall passes away".
"Lee Marshall Dies".

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