A couple hours ago, a rumor about Wade Barrett started popping up on the wrestle web. Aggregation accounts on X\/Twitter spread versions of a report, supposedly from PWInsider, that Barrett was \u201coff the road\u201d and that his \u201ctime as a commentator on the main roster shows\u201d was over.<\/p>\n
It spread quickly, because it seemed to fit with other recent stories \u2014 namely Michael Cole announcing last night (Sept. 5) that he & Corey Graves are taking over SmackDown commentary<\/a> for the next few months, and possibly the odd, seemingly-resolved issues<\/a> Nikki Bella said she had with Barrett last week in France. Some of those aggregators included a note teasing that the announce desk changes could be related to whatever had gone on with Bella.<\/p>\n Before the talk could too much momentum, Barrett (real name Stu Bennett) reposted a version of the report that particular aggregator has since deleted. He called the reports \u201cBS\u201d, and indicates the rumor was leading to more \u201chate\u201d \u2014 much of which is probably headed Bella\u2019s way as people decided she was to blame for the change in Wade\u2019s TV role.<\/p>\n I usually ignore BS reports like this, but it\u2019s causing needless hate to be spewed towards people I work with. WWE have kindly given me a couple of weeks off for personal time (booked nine months ago), and then I\u2019m back to business as usual. A complete non-story. The end.<\/p>\n There will still be questions about the make-up of the WWE announce teams. But barring credible reports of something nefarious going on, hopefully people can move on from gossiping about them\u2026 or at least attacking strangers over the gossip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple hours ago, a rumor about Wade Barrett started popping up on the wrestle web. Aggregation accounts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55,9482,51419,32635,24382],"class_list":{"0":"post-119712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom","13":"tag-wwe","14":"tag-wwe-clash-in-paris","15":"tag-wwe-raw","16":"tag-wwe-smackdown"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}