{"id":155558,"date":"2023-03-17T21:28:12","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T02:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=155558"},"modified":"2023-03-17T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T02:28:12","slug":"pat-mcafee-announces-he-still-has-massive-plans-for-wwe-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/17\/pat-mcafee-announces-he-still-has-massive-plans-for-wwe-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAfee announces he still has &#8220;massive&#8221; plans for WWE in the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2896697141\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Pat McAfee has announced that he&#8217;s not done with WWE.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed like McAfee&#8217;s time with WWE might be done after Wade Barrett announced his position on Smackdown commentary was &#8220;as permanant as you can ever be in a role in WWE&#8221; in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/wade-barrett-says-wwe-smackdown-role-permanent-pat-mcafee-has-a-lot-on-his-plate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Daily Star.<\/a> Barrett replaced McAfee on commentary last year when McAfee took a job with ESPN covering college football.<\/p>\n<p>McAfee went on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/1636534626419195904?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> yesterday to respond to questions about his WWE status after Barrett&#8217;s comments. Barrett said that he&#8217;s busy with his career right now and he&#8217;s about to become a father, but he still has big plans with WWE.\u00a0&#8220;A lot of wrestling chatter about me right now.. I think about wrestling everyday..that dream isn\u2019t done,&#8221; McAfee tweeted. &#8220;My business is currently rather active and exigent\u2026+ baby on the way\u2026timing is everything I still have MASSIVE plans for my journey to the WWE HOF someday. Believe that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McAfee made a surprise return to WWE commentary at the Royal Rumble this past January.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1693897064\"><div id=\"pwtor-1422058468\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Pat McAfee has announced that he&#8217;s not done with WWE. It seemed like McAfee&#8217;s time with WWE might be done after Wade Barrett announced his position on Smackdown commentary was &#8220;as permanant as you can <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/03\/17\/pat-mcafee-announces-he-still-has-massive-plans-for-wwe-in-the-future\/\" title=\"Pat McAfee announces he still has &#8220;massive&#8221; plans for WWE in the future\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":142585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2022\/07\/Pat-McAfee.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155561,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155558\/revisions\/155561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}