5 former WWE announcers who went on to more success

WWE announcers Byron Saxton and Samoa Joe
WWE announcers Byron Saxton and Samoa Joe

#2. Renee Paquette (aka Renee Young)

Renee Paquette and Jonathan Good
Renee Paquette and Jonathan Good

Renee Paquette - or, as she was known while in WWE, Renee Young - hasn't exactly had a showy, glamorous life since leaving the company. And it's more than likely that she likes it exactly like that.

Starting in 2012, Renee began working for WWE after four years as co-host of Right After Wrestling for the Score Television Network in her home country of Canada.

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After working as a backstage interviewer for the WWE and host on programs such as host of pay-per-view Kickoff programs, NXT, and SmackDown, she made her actual commentary debut on an episode of NXT on September 13th, 2013. She would also work commentary duties on WWE SuperStars.

After filling in for our previous entry, Jonathan Coachman, on the Raw commentary team - making her the first woman to commentate during a full episode of the show - she was eventually made a permanent part of the announcers team. Her performance was a little hit-and-miss, understandable for someone calling a major show like Raw for the very first time.

At WWE SummerSlam 2020, Renee announced that she was leaving the company following the pay-per-view. She had, at the time, been co-hosting a major WWE show for Fox, WWE Backstage, which had recently been canceled. There were other factors, too, but none of them involved animosity with WWE.

What has she been doing since leaving WWE?

Since leaving the company, Renee has been hosting her own very successful podcast, Oral Sessions with Renee Paquette, where she has interviewed a wide variety of people - not just wrestlers, but they pop up there, too. She has also recently published a cookbook, Messy In The Kitchen: My Guide to Eating Deliciously, Hosting Fabulously and Sipping Copiously (yep, that's the whole title).

She's also expecting her first child with her husband, Jonathan Good - you may know him as Jon Moxley of AEW.

She hasn't totally forgotten her WWE roots however, as she returned to co-host a special new edition of WWE Backstage, along with Paige and Booker T, to promote the Royal Rumble this year.

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Edited by Arjun Kumar
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