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Birth name
  
Marshall Aaron Mayer

Debut
  
1968

Children
  
Jason VanBorssum

Retired
  
2001

Ring name(s)
  
Lee Marshall

Role
  
Announcer

Cause of death
  
Esophageal cancer

Name
  
Lee Marshall


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Born
  
November 28, 1949 Los Angeles, California, United States (
1949-11-28
)

Died
  
April 26, 2014, Santa Monica, California, United States

Movies and TV shows
  
Women of Wrestling, American Angels‑ Baptism o, AWA All‑Star Wrestling, Larryboy, Larryboy: The Good - The Bad

Similar People
  
Thurl Ravenscroft, Jim Cummings, Dallas McKennon, Phil Vischer, Larry Whitaker

Billed height
  
5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

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Lee Marshall (born Marshall Aaron Mayer; November 28, 1949 – April 26, 2014) was an American professional wrestling announcer formerly of the American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Women of Wrestling (WOW!).

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American Wrestling Association

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

World Championship Wrestling

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He later joined World Championship Wrestling (WCW), where he was known as "Stagger Lee". Marshall was the co-host of WCW Thunder alongside Bobby Heenan and Tony Schiavone. He interviewed and announced alongside Mike Tenay and Scott Hudson on WCW Saturday Night as well. A staple of WCW Monday Nitro was his regular cracking of "Weasel" jokes directed at Heenan, which would conclude his road reports.

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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 Zbyzsko. 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, after some difficulty (and questioning why Zbyzsko didn't come to his aid), finished commentating the match from his designated announcing position.

Los Angeles

In 1986, Marshall was the ring announcer for the Los Angeles portion of WrestleMania 2. 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 commercials

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). 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 rap video "We're All in the Same Gang" as King News telling the gangbangers "they just don't get it."

His bass voice is notable within announcing circles, holding the premiere position in that field, the voice of Tony the Tiger (succeeding Thurl Ravenscroft), a position for which Marshall was contracted until 2014.

Death

Marshall died in Santa Monica on April 26, 2014 of esophageal cancer.

Championships and accomplishments

  • Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
  • Worst Television Announcer (1998)
  • References

    Lee Marshall (announcer) Wikipedia