5 RAW General Managers and why WWE had to let them go

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#1 Mike Adamle

From day 1, Adamle seemed out of his depth in WWE. As someone that has been a sports broadcaster for nearly two decades, the WWE management wouldn’t have imagined the sheer incompetence of Adamle, at least as a WWE presenter/backstage interviewer.

Following his highly publicised gaffes on - screen, including such gems as calling Jeff Hardy “Jeff Harvey” and calling Umaga “The Samoan Bulldog”, instead of a bulldozer, Mike Adamle carved a special place for himself in the business, albeit for all the wrong reasons.

WWE made the head-scratching decision of making Adamle the General Manager of RAW from July ’08 to November ’08, before he was unceremoniously relieved of his duties.

According to reports, Adamle was told about the decision just hours before RAW — something that did not sit well with the former All-American fullback. Adamle and WWE parted ways soon after, and years later, Adamle revealed in an interview that their relationship had, by then, run its course.

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