in July it was announced that Joe tessore would be joining the WWE commentary team during the SummerSlam live event Michael Cole and tessore revealed that tessore would start on Raw on September 2nd and that Cole would move to SmackDown Wade Barrett and Corey Graves have been the commentary Duo on Smackdown since February Michael Cole Who currently works on Raw alongside Pat McAfee since the beginning of the year will see McAfee temporarily step away from WWE to focus on ESPN's college football coverage however McAfee will return in time to narrate the premiere of Raw on Netflix along with Cole tessore in turn will continue his work at ABC and ESPN covering the Network's college football and highlight games on ESPN and ABC Saturday night in addition to the college football playoff combining this role with his new role in WWE these commentator changes come as WWE's weekly shows prepare to switch platforms as their current rights deals are set to expire raw will head to Netflix in January in a deal valued at $5 billion but will continue to air on USA Network through the end of the year thanks to an extension agreed in May in October Smackdown will move from Fox to the USA Network while NXT which highlights developing ww Talent will move from the USA Network to the CW in October according to information from variety starting in September Joe tessore and Wade Barrett will be responsible for commentating on Raw while Michael Cole and Corey graves will commentate on Smackdown comment what you think of the change in the Raw and SmackDown commentary Duos if you like the video leave a like And subscribe to our channel so you don't miss any WWE content thanks for watching the video and see you soon