The reason ESPN should never been in business with World Wrestling Entertainment was made abundantly clear when the company decided to finally acknowledge the scandal involving the disappearance of WWE lead announcer Mauro Ranallo from TV on its website Thursday – a month late. Instead of a story on its WWE section on its website or a mention on SportsCenter, they let a vitriolic podcaster who is also a paid WWE employee target the company’s critics on ESPN’s own website with no rebuttal or response, and worse, no actual reporting. Pete Rosenberg hosts ESPN’s Cheap Heat podcast on its WWE page, and hosts a show on WWE’s streaming service with frequent guest John Layfield, the central figure in the Ranallo controversy. It was Rosenberg’s show where Layfield tore into Ranallo for acknowledging a Wrestling Observer award he won, among the many times he ripped Ranallo. So to this point of the scandal, ESPN’s only serious acknowledgment of the incident is by someone with no credibility and plenty of conflict of interest because he works for the company they allegedly cover. Read more http://www.daytondailynews.com/spor...overage-pro-wrestling/oI0jNsT7tsbuGI3kAOm3YP/
