In late 2010, Mathews often worked as the color commentator on Raw due to Jerry Lawler's increased in-ring competition. On the April 7, 2009, episode of ECW, Mathews was announced as the new play-by-play commentator, as the previous commentator, Todd Grisham was moved to SmackDown after Tazz departed WWE. He continuously praised himself, and he argued with D'Angelo Dinero throughout the broadcast. Results – December 9, 2005", Josh Mathews blog confirming final episode of Heat, "Draft Thoughts...Another Von Erich to Enter the Ring? Recognized by the most discerning eyes as one of the best-dressed personalities in WWE history, Burberry poster boy Josh Mathews began his career with WWE in 2001 after being a part of MTV's reality show, “Tough Enough.” Instead of embarking on a career with WWE as a Superstar, Josh instead became a television interviewer for SmackDown and other shows. He later offered and was accepted to be Booker T's temporary partner for a tag team match on an episode of SmackDown!. In December 2002, he began appearing as the backstage interviewer for the SmackDown! Mathews was attacked by Kurt Angle. Mathews’ announce career continued to trend upward as he served as a color commentator on both SmackDown and WrestleMania. [10][11] In addition to commentating on ECW and ECW pay-per-view matches, Mathews along with Matt Striker represented the ECW brand on Superstars every week starting with the inaugural episode on April 16, 2009. Mathews extended his announcing duties to include digital media and hosted a variety of WWE Mobile and WWE.com programming. He then using the new catchphrase "The Anonymous Raw General Manager says...", before reading each e-mail. [15] On October 18, 2013 episode of SmackDown, Alberto Del Rio attacked Mathews while threatening John Cena about what he was going to do to him in Hell in a Cell. On January 13, 2018, Matt Sydal turned heel and gifted his Impact Grand Championship to Mathews, only for Sydal to drop the belt to Austin Aries while defending it on Mathews' behalf. Josh was also a minor semi-recurring character in Boy Meets World. [8], Mathews filled in for an absent Todd Grisham on a summer 2006 episode of Raw. During Todd Grisham's stint as ECW commentator, Mathews replaced him as Raw's backstage interviewer. [9] He was the host of WWE.com's Weekly Top Five when it started and hosted it until April 2009 when he was replaced by Jack Korpela. Mathews was the play-by-play commentator of Saturday Morning Slam throughout the show's 2012–2013 run. Joshua "Josh" Gabriel Matthews is a recurring character in Girl Meets World. ?...Steamboat to put tights back on?? On the April 25 episode of Raw, Mathews announced that the Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler vs. Michael Cole and Jack Swagger match at Extreme Rules will be a Country Whipping match, which Cole and Swagger won. On June 25, 2014, Mathews was released from WWE.[16]. After being released from WWE, it was reported that Lomberger had signed with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) to work in their offices in Nashville. Results – November 11, 2004", "WWE SmackDown! [3] after Kevin Kelly was released. Results – November 4, 2004", "WWE SmackDown! Mathews once again emerged victorious against Jordan, with some considerable help from Booker T.[5] He also tried to help Booker in his WWE Championship match at the Survivor Series, but was given a Clothesline From Hell by JBL for his efforts. Play-by-play announcer for SmackDown, WWE Main Event, WWE NXT, ECW; Raw backstage interviewer; Tough Enough finalist. [13] On the February 4, 2011, episode of SmackDown, Mathews and Cole were joined by Booker T, forming a three-man announce team. Joshua Lomberger, better known by the ring name Josh Mathews, is an American professional wrestling play by play commentator and former professional wrestler, currently signed to Impact Wrestling. [6] On March 31, 2005 episode of SmackDown! Results – March 31, 2005", "WWE SmackDown! Mathews reunited with his former ECW and SmackDown broadcast partner Matt Striker on the November 10, 2011 episode of Superstars, becoming the full-time broadcasting team. Schefter would send off another tweet just before the Mathews reply that again, didn’t make any football sense: To be clear: Clay Matthews wasn’t willing to play right now for what the Broncos offered. brand and as an announcer on Velocity. On the April 23, 2012 episode of Raw, Mathews was throttled by Brock Lesnar after Lesnar believed Mathews had made a smart-aleck comment towards him. while interviewing Randy Orton. On the March 2, 2017 episode of Impact Wrestling, Mathews turned heel that night when he began favoring heel wrestlers over face wrestlers. On September 27, 2013, he started as commentator of Superstars with Tom Phillips. ", "Longtime WWE announcer gone from the company", "Mike Tenay's new TNA role revealed in press release", "WWE at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Josh_Mathews&oldid=979832508, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 September 2020, at 01:45. February 15, 2017. Play-by-play announcer for SmackDown, WWE Main Event, WWE NXT, ECW; Raw backstage interviewer; Tough Enough finalist. In August 2015, Lomberger married Ashley Simmons, best known by her ring name Madison Rayne. Despite these occasional unfortunate experiences, Mathews never backed down from an announcing assignment through his WWE tenure, which ended in June 2014. Josh Mathews, who drew the ire of many in the business for referring to himself as “the greatest play-by-play announcer in the world” recently, has been having a social media meltdown. On the April 9, 2010 episode of SmackDown, Mathews was attacked with a sleeper hold by Dolph Ziggler when he was interviewing him. He left the Raw broadcasting table the following week, after Cole and Lawler reconciled, though he remained on the show as a backstage interviewer and backup commentator. In April, Mathews had a series of arguments with Jeremy Borash and the two started a heated rivalry, which seemed to culminate in a match where Mathews and Borash formed teams of four wrestlers to compete against each other, with the team Mathews created ending up on the losing side, meaning he would no longer be lead-commentator. [17] Throughout November and December, Mathews appeared in episodes of #ImWithSpud on TNA's YouTube channel. when John "Bradshaw" Layfield slapped Mathews for not showing respect to Layfield's chief of staff Orlando Jordan when he was interviewing him. He and Booker ultimately won the match. Most interesting about the Mathews clap back was that he added the rat emojis at the end! In January 2015, Mathews was the lead announcer of Impact Wrestling alongside Taz. Josh Mathews: Bio Recognized by the most discerning eyes as one of the best-dressed personalities in WWE history, Burberry poster boy Josh Mathews began his career with WWE in 2001, after being a part of MTV's reality show, “Tough Enough.”