WWE has now officially replaced Michael Cole after having announced it previously it finally happened it was announced earlier by WWE that thanks to Pat McAfee being part of college game day he would not be part of the official broadcasting team for raw for the next few months while he was stepping away from the raw team he was not the only one also leaving the Red Brand was Michael Cole who would join Cory Graves for Smackdown for the remaining months of the year instead Joe tesor would step into his place at the time it was not known who would replace Pat McAfee but as it turned out it was none other than Wade Barrett crossing over from Smackdown to kickoff raw Cole's replacement finally arrived and it was finally made official Joe tessore stepped in as the one leading the play-by-play commentary for the Monday night show this will be the case going into the new year tessore has kicked off his rostant bringing his iconic voice to the Red Brand Show once Michael Cole and McAfee are back together it's assumed that he will be part of SmackDown but that has not been confirmed at this time as it would require a shakeup of the commentary teams