25 Facts About Mark Madden

Mark Madden was born on December 29,1959 and is an American sports talk show host in Pittsburgh.

Mark Madden is best known for his work as a professional wrestling color commentator for World Championship Wrestling.

Mark Madden wrote for Pro Wrestling Torch from 1992 to 1994.

Mark Madden had informed Aaron about racist comments Watts had made to the wrestling media before being hired by WCW as head booker and president, leading to Aaron to push for Watts' removal.

Mark Madden befriended his childhood idol, Ric Flair, whom Madden would watch as a child on Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling via his UHF antenna on WJNL-TV in Johnstown ; the two remained close friends for decades.

Primarily a heel during this time, Mark Madden's wrestling persona would be similar to his radio talk show persona in Pittsburgh.

Mark Madden did see some in-ring action against Okerlund, as well as being unprovokingly attacked by Tank Abbott who started randomly attacking people until Bill Goldberg answered a challenge that never was resolved on WCW television.

Shortly before Vince McMahon purchased WCW in March 2001, Madden was fired for making disparaging remarks about the company, lobbying for the return of the fired Scott Hall, and disclosing information about the sale of WCW.

Mark Madden spent several years as a regular columnist for Wade Keller's Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter.

Mark Madden has often blamed Page for his firing from WCW and has often referred to him as "DDMe" on his online articles and radio shows.

Mark Madden subsequently appeared as a featured guest on Action Sports Sunday on WTAE-TV, a half-hour sports discussion show.

In 2015, Mark Madden joined WPNT for a nightly televised sports talk show, an edited replay of his radio show, which was removed from WPNT's schedule in 2016.

Mark Madden wrote a weekly column called "Monday Mark Madden" for the Beaver County Times, a Pittsburgh-area newspaper, starting in May 2007; the column continued for over a decade until his departure to work for TribLive in 2018.

Mark Madden has coached numerous National Champion teams over the years, as well as coaching the United States Junior team to a gold medal in the 2006 World Junior Championship in Germany.

Mark Madden has been critical of the team's non-confrontational tactics regarding team legends near the end of their careers dating back to Franco Harris, though he did defend the team regarding James Harrison.

Mark Madden, did defend the Pirates decision to have Todd Frazier designated for assignment after batting.

Mark Madden was raised as an only child by a single mother in Reserve Township.

Mark Madden lived at home with her until he was 40 years old.

Mark Madden is an avid fan of Liverpool FCas well as classic rock and heavy metal music.

Mark Madden accepted, and agreed that all the money would go to the Mario Lemieux Foundation.

Lemieux immediately looked to the pressbox, where he knew Mark Madden was watching the game, and raised his arms.

Mark Madden was hospitalized on January 29,2006 after suffering a heart attack during a dek-hockey tournament in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Mark Madden drove himself to a local hospital after feeling nauseated, and had the heart procedure done a day after checking in.

Mark Madden resumed his radio show three days later, although in a different time slot.

Mark Madden, who had been fully vaccinated and an advocate for receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, said that being vaccinated "saved his life".