Joe Tessitore is on the press circuit promoting a new season of ABC’s Holey Moley. Tessitore and comedian Rob Riggle call the action on the Steph Curry-produced mini golf competition. While his goal is to bring more eyeballs to the project, Tessitore knows his recent dismissal from ESPN’s Monday Night Football is bound to come up.
“I will miss the crew greatly; they were incredible personal relationships that were developed,” he said in a recent interview with Awful Announcing. “I will no longer be on Monday Night Football, but I will be extremely busy at the network in the coming months and years to come.”
Disney and ESPN do have a lot of work for Tessitore even if his time calling NFL games for the network is over. In addition to Holey Moley, Tessitore is also calling Top Rank Championship Boxing on ESPN.
The boxing promotion has announced intentions to return on June 9. Tessitore says he expects to “be doing play-by-play and hosting on ESPN two to three times a week” when that happens.
Speculation that Tessitore might move back to ESPN’s college football broadcasts has swirled as well. He did not address that in his interview with Awful Announcing. He said that right now, his focus is on a second season of Holey Moley.
“The show is better this year. And we had a good show last year. What I like about the show this year is we have a playoff system that proceeds to a championship round. So each week, you’re trying to win the Holey Moley championship. You take those winners and you end up with a single putt for a quarter of a million dollars. It sounds so crazy for a guy who just broadcast a NFL playoff game, who just broadcast Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder, and I’m not sure what it is, but I like when something’s on the line. You take all these mini golfers, you whittle them down, you go through all those crazy holes, and you get down to one putt for a quarter of a million dollars, and it’s great.”
