Career
Along with Tamsen Fadal, he was co-anchored of WPIX-television in New York City"s weeknight 5pm and 10pm newscasts until July 2014. He is currently the Lead Sports Anchor for WPIX-television in New York and a host for various WWE programming including the Monday Night Raw Pre-show. Sports anchor (2002-2008, 2009-2013, 2014-present)
In 2008, he also started working for WNYW-television, where he was the post-game reporter for the New York Yankees baseball team, along with hosting/reporting duties for the New York Giants Football pre-game kickoff shows.
He also acts as a play-by-play announcer for college basketball and arena football.
Stanford left W National Broadcasting Company-television to start as weekday 5PM and 10PM anchor on WPIX-television, but was later given a reassigned role in July 2014, becoming WPIX"s lead sports anchor. He is also the host of the PIX11 Sports Desk, a nightly sports rap up show on PIX11 at 10:45.
World Wrestling Entertainment / WWE (2009-present)
Stanford debuted in WWE in 2009 replacing Jack Korpela as the host of The Bottom Lincolnshire. In October 2010, he became the new play-by-play commentator for WWE Superstars replacing Michael Cole.
He called his first episode on the October 7 episode of Superstars with Jerry Lawler.
This team was short-lived, however, as in mid-November injured wrestler Master in Surgery Punk, who had started commentating on WWE Raw, replaced Lawler on Superstars. At the end of December, Punk left the commentary team after assaulting John Cena on Raw and SmackDown with a chairman Starting on the December 31 episode of Superstars, Josh Mathews joined Stanford as the color commentator.
In addition to his commentary duties, he hosts the PPV Preshow every month, along with Tony Dawson.
Stanford also makes appearances in Zack Ryder"s weekly Z! True Long Island Story YouTube series. On the show, Stanford revealed that he was the man who attacked Chiappetta, Ryder"s best friend, becoming a heel in the process.
This was later proven false as it was Stanford"s exact look-alike, Rot (wearing a "#Heel" Jacket), who performed the ambush. Stanford is currently Host of the Monday Night Raw Pre-show on WWE Network.
WWOR-television Sports Anchor, My9 News at Ten (2002–2008)
WNYW-television Sports Anchor/Presenter, Fox 5 News (2008)
Superstars Play-by-Play Commentator, Raw portion of Superstars (2010–2013)
Raw Backstage Interviewer (2011)
The Crossover Substitute presenter (2013)
Bottom Lincolnshire Host (2009–2012, 2013-2014)
WWE PPV Preshow Host (2012–2013)
W National Broadcasting Company-television Weekend Sports Anchor, (2009–2013)
WWE NXT Narrator (2013)
WPIX-television news anchor (2013-present)
Does voiceover work for numerous WWE programs including This Week in WWE and WWE Ride Along on the WWE Network (2014-present)
Raw Pre-show analyst (2015-present).
