Todd Romero, from Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, is a former employee of World Wrestling Entertainment, who worked as a backstage interviewer and a back-up commentator for the SmackDown brand under the name Steve Romero. Romero also co-hosted WWE Velocity

WWE Velocity

WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006...

as its play-by-play commentator, along with then-color commentator Josh Mathews.

Romero has spent 15 years in the broadcasting business, including 10 working for KUSA-TV

KUSA-TV

KUSA, channel 9, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Denver, Colorado. KUSA is owned by the Gannett Company, and is a sister station to MyNetworkTV affiliate KTVD...

 in Denver, where he covered two Super Bowl

Super Bowl

The Super Bowl is the championship game of the National Football League , the highest level of professional American football in the United States, culminating a season that begins in the late summer of the previous calendar year. The Super Bowl uses Roman numerals to identify each game, rather...

s and a pair of Stanley Cup

Stanley Cup

The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...

s. Steve then became the sports director for the KSHB-TV

KSHB-TV

KSHB-TV, virtual channel 41, is the NBC-affiliated television station serving the entire Kansas City metropolitan area; the station is commonly known by its branding NBC Action News. It is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, alongside independent station KMCI as the company's only existing duopoly...

 in Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

 before joining WWE. Romero would make his WWE television debut on December 18, 2004.

On the April 10, 2006 edition of WWE Raw

WWE RAW

WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...

, Romero appeared on television interviewing Kane

Kane (wrestler)

Glenn Thomas Jacobs is a Spanish-born American professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name, Kane. He is signed to WWE, appearing on its SmackDown brand, but is currently inactive due to injury....

 because Todd Grisham

Todd Grisham

Todd Grisham is an American presenter/announcer who is best known for his time in the WWE as a backstage interviewer, play-by-play commentator and occasional ring announcer...

 had the night off. Romero made another Raw brand appearance this time taking over from Jonathan Coachman

Jonathan Coachman

Jonathan William Coachman , also known as "The Coach", is a former professional wrestling color commentator and authority figure. He is also a former college basketball player, and football play-by-play announcer...

 as color commentator on the September 10, 2006 edition of WWE Sunday Night Heat

WWE HEAT

WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...

.

In August 2006, Romero replaced Todd Grisham as the host of the in-commercial update segments for Canadian viewers, where upcoming shows, announcements, and autograph signings in Canada are hyped. At some point during 2007, Romero quietly exited WWE, and was replaced by Jack Korpela

Jack Korpela

Jack Korpela is an American presenter, commentator and interviewer best known for his previous work on ESPN as a motorsports announcer and currently, he is a play-by-play commentator for the SmackDown portion of the WWE's Internationally syndicated program, WWE Superstars, an interviewer for...

.

In June 2007, he took over as the new weekend sports anchor for WKMG-TV

WKMG-TV

WKMG-TV channel 6 is the CBS network affiliate for Central Florida . WKMG is licensed to Orlando and is owned and operated by Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc., a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. The station refers to itself as "Local6". WKMG's transmitter is located in Bithlo, Florida...

 in Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

Orlando is a city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat of Orange County, and the center of the Greater Orlando metropolitan area. According to the 2010 US Census, the city had a population of 238,300, making Orlando the 79th largest city in the United States...

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Job titles in WWE

• Former SmackDown Backstage Interviewer and Back-up commentator
• Former WWE Byte This! co-host
• Former Velocity
  WWE Velocity
  WWE Velocity was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . It replaced two syndicated WWE shows, Jakked/Metal. Once a weekly Saturday night show on Spike TV and on Sky Sports 2 in the UK on Sunday mornings, Velocity became a webcast from 2005 to 2006...
  
  play-by-play commentator
• Former Raw
  WWE RAW
  WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...
  
  Backstage Interviewer
• Former WWE 24/7 host
• Former WWE Canadian Update host
• Former Heat
  WWE HEAT
  WWE Heat was a professional wrestling television program produced by World Wrestling Entertainment...
  
  commentator