At the height of RADIO WARS in 2015, The Maestro published a story titled “Josh Innes and Mike Missanelli Confronted Each Other at Eagles Practice Today, Pair Separated.”

Back then, there were a couple of fans in the vicinity and one provided this version of the story:

“…paraphrased: Innes went up to Mike, who was talking to someone else. They all stood there for five minutes. It looked friendly. Then Josh could be heard talking to Mike about the Gargano in-his-face story [editor’s note: presumably the aforementioned pissing his pants thing]. He called Mike’s version bullshit. The ratings were brought up. Innes said something about winning, and then something to Mike’s face (“you suck”?) and was like “you said I wouldn’t say it to your face and I did.” Mike walks toward him, they got separated. [Tipster] didn’t think Innes backed off. Innes seemed like instigator.

Innes later claimed that Mike started the encounter, and noted that he told Missanelli that his show “fucking sucks.”

I wasn’t sure if Mike ever commented on this altercation, though Rob Tornoe did a story in the Inquirer containing this passage:

“Yeah, he stepped back and wet himself just like he did months ago when Gargano confronted him,” Missanelli said later. “Anybody can be a tough guy behind a microphone.”

Anyway, in the most recent episode of his podcast, with guests Jason Myrtetus and Harry Mayes, the topic came up in conversation and Missanelli said this about the confrontation:


“He ran behind Derek Boyko.”

Boyko was the Eagles’ PR guy back then. So in Mike’s version of the story, he confirms that he “charged” at Innes, who then reportedly ran for cover behind a public relations dude. You’ve got both sides of the story now, so feel free to believe whomever or whatever you want.

RE: Gargano, the general details are a little foggy, but you’ll recall that Innes and The Cuz both worked at WIP before Gargano left for 97.5 the Fanatic. Josh was fast-tracked to P.M. drive by Andy Bloom, which pissed off and displaced a number of other people in the process, then Josh ultimately crashed out, lost his job, and Bloom was later canned. Spike Eskin took over, cleaned things up, and got WIP humming again, to the point where they’re now hammering the Fanatic with regularity. That’s the CliffsNotes.

EDIT  – Josh tweeted out some stuff that more or less reiterates his story from 2015:

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