{"id":120119,"date":"2025-09-07T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120119\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T05:03:10","slug":"wade-barrett-off-wwe-commentary-new-plans-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120119\/","title":{"rendered":"Wade Barrett Off WWE Commentary, New Plans Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wade-barrett-july-19-a.jpg\" alt=\"Wade Barrett Off WWE Commentary, New Plans Revealed\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    WWE<\/p>\n<p>An update has emerged on a change being made to the WWE announce team, with a Wade Barrett now off the road.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE \u2013 Wade Barrett has revealed the reason for his absence from WWE commentary \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/news\/wade-barrett-issues-statement-wwe-status-smackdown-absence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here for full details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Cole announced during the September 5 SmackDown episode that he and Corey Graves will be the blue brand\u2019s commentary team for the next couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>With Joe Tessitore previously off WWE TV for the college football season, an update has emerged on fellow SmackDown commentator Wade Barrett\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwinsider.com\/article\/200128\/wwe-announce-team-update.html?p=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PWInsider Elite<\/a>, Wade Barrett will be \u201coff the road going forward\u201d, and won\u2019t be calling Raw. UPDATE: PWInsider\u2019s report was later updated to state Barrett will be \u201coff the road going forward for a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that the current plan is for Michael Cole and Corey Graves to also call Raw together in addition to SmackDown.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for Barrett being off the road is currently unknown. We\u2019ll keep you posted if any news on the reason for his absence emerges.<\/p>\n<p>In other Wade Barrett news, Barrett recently took to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StuBennett\/status\/1964042035087765822\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> to state that he and Nikki Bella had \u201csmoothed things over\u201d following recent comments, writing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Great news, fight fans.. @NikkiAndBrie and I have spoken, we\u2019ve smoothed things over, and I\u2019ve graciously been allowed back into the Bella Army. Fully paid-up member since FCW 2008 \ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udffb\ud83c\udf77<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A difference of perspective \u2013 to which we are all entitled \u2013 but to be clear, some of the personal abuse that gets sent to Nikki on here is reprehensible and completely out of line, so let\u2019s cut that out immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the full situation with Wade Barrett and Nikki Bella can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/news\/wade-barrett-nikki-bella-wwe-backstage-issues-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will continue to provide updates on the situation as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlingmasterclass.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-436300 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/wrestling-masterclass-9-stars.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"198\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To make sure you stay up to date with all the biggest wrestling and WrestleTalk news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@wrestletalk.official\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">follow us on Threads by clicking this link<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>                      <a href=\"https:\/\/wrestletalk.com\/author\/taylor-sanchez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757221390_523_c12a1ddc45bf26d99122e492ead98b8aeea388f89298ab00ecb55d938604dcd2\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>11 hours ago by Sanchez Taylor<\/p>\n<p class=\"share\">Share this article with friends<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WWE An update has emerged on a change being made to the WWE announce team, with a Wade&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57300,3673,96,59,56,54,55,57007,9482],"class_list":["post-120119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-announcers","tag-commentary","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wade-barrett","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120119","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=120119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}