Jack Reynolds

1937 - October 16th, 2008

Jack Reynolds (born Joseph James Rizzo) was a professional wrestling announcer.

Reynolds joined WWE’s broadcast team in the early 1980s, and assumed the role of play-by-play announcer for the then-All-Star Wrestling telecasts, teaming up with Canadian football legend-turned-wrestler Angelo “King Kong” Mosca, and later Jesse “The Body” Ventura. And it was Reynolds and Ventura who became the original hosts of Prime Time Wrestling when it debuted in 1985 on USA Network.

Reynolds died at age 71 on Thursday, October 16, 2008.

One of his sons is Tony Rizzo, sportscaster at WJW-TV in Cleveland.