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Michael Schiavello: Born – Melbourne, Australia 1975

(Australian) International Sports Commentator and writer

Masonic Lodges:
Balwyn-Deepdene Lodge No. 275, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Daylite Lodge No. 44 in Las Vegas, USA.

Michael Schiavello (born 10 April 1975) is an Australian sports commentator and journalist. He has commentated for AXS TV, K-1, Dream, Maximum Fighting Championship, King of the Cage, ONE
Championship and The Contender Asia. He has also written for more than 50 publications worldwide, was the long-serving editor of Blitz Magazine, was the editor of International Kickboxer
magazine until 2009, was a feature writer for Inside Sport magazine and was the youngest ever inductee to the Best Australian Sports Writing Awards. Schiavello first got his start in commentating at age 16 at a track and field event in Melbourne. Shortly after, he began hosting his own radio sports show on Southern FM where he was called “Mr. Scoop” for his ability to score interviews with world-famous sports stars between high school and homework. Some of the famous sports personalities Schiavello interviewed for his community radio show included soccer stars Diego Maradona and Pele, tennis stars Gabriela Sabatini, Stefan Edberg, and Goran Ivanisevic, cricket stars Richie Richardson, Wasim Akram, and Mohammad Azharuddin, pro wrestler The Junkyard Dog, and more. When Schiavello was 21, a fight promoter in Melbourne asked him to commentate for the video of his show. Other promoters heard it, liked his style, and asked him to do their shows. Then, when Foxtel (Fox Sports) came on the air in 1996, they asked him to commentate for them.

More information here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schiavello