Michael Cole and Wade Barrett to Serve As WWE Raw Announce Team

WWE is changing things up again regarding its commentary teams.

Variety reported this morning that starting this Monday, Michael Cole and Wade Barrett will serve as the commentators for Raw.

Cole will remain on SmackDown while being joined by Kevin Patrick and Corey Graves beginning August 11th.

Patrick and Graves had been the announce team for Raw before the change. The report noted that WWE remains high on Patrick and thinks having him work with Cole will benefit his growth as a broadcaster. 

This will mark Cole’s return to Raw as the lead play-by-play man after being in the role for many years before moving to SmackDown.

It will be the first time that Barrett has been doing commentary on Raw in his career after serving as a commentator for NXT before moving to SmackDow in late 2022.