Corey Maclin


Corey Maclin was an American television broadcaster, announcer, play-by-play commentator and politician, best known for his work in the Memphis, Tennessee area as a television sports reporter and professional wrestling announcer.

Biography

He was best known for working as a sports reporter at WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee. While he was there, he also worked as the co-commentator with Dave Brown at USWA Wrestling. He later served as a ring announcer at USWA, when Lance Russell rejoined the organization. Starting his broadcasting career at the age of 16, he began working at 107.1 KFTH-FM, where he did a weekend gospel show. While attending high school, he went from working in the radio business only on weekends to working six nights a week. At the age of 18, he left KFTH and began working at WLOK, where he served as the youngest program director ever at the station. At the age of 19, he began working with Dave Brown in color commentary at USWA Championship Wrestling. Maclin left WMC-TV a year later to become advertising director for The Memphis Silver Star News. Later, he launched his own company, Corey Maclin & Associates, a full-service advertising agency for clients in and out of Memphis and Shelby County.
In 1999, he took over as President/CEO of the relaunched Memphis Wrestling promotion and was in charge of all day-to-day operations including television production, talent relations, marketing, budgeting and a host of other duties. On July 10, 2004 Maclin teamed with Kamala in a no contest against