{"id":167505,"date":"2023-10-16T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=167505"},"modified":"2023-10-16T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:40:32","slug":"michael-cole-misses-tonights-episode-of-raw-after-recently-referencing-how-few-shows-hes-missed-over-the-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/10\/16\/michael-cole-misses-tonights-episode-of-raw-after-recently-referencing-how-few-shows-hes-missed-over-the-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cole misses tonight&#8217;s episode of Raw after recently referencing how few shows he&#8217;s missed over the decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3704119823\" 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>Michael Cole isn&#8217;t commentating on tonight&#8217;s episode of Monday Night Raw, although it&#8217;s not due to illness, a personal emergency, travel issues, or anything else that came up at the last second. Instead, PWTorch has learned it was merely a pre-planned night off. That would hardly be news in most situations, but with WWE announcers, weeks off are rare. Cole recently noted on TV how few nights he&#8217;s missed on commentary in his decades of work with WWE.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Patrick, recently the voice of Raw play-by-play, was back with Wade Barrett on commentary. Patrick was recently moved to Smackdown in a shuffling of the announce teams, with Corey Graves also moving to Smackdown and Cole as the third member of the team. Cole and Barrett were moved to Raw.<\/p>\n<p>Although Cole had planned for this night off going back to very early this year, it&#8217;ll be worth tracking if more personnel have weeks off under new ownership. Vince McMahon didn&#8217;t overtly prohibit people from taking weeks off, but he set the bar high with his own work ethic of never taking weeks off unless there was a health emergency for decades himself, so the culture of WWE under his ownership led to people feeling it would be held against them if they asked for optional time off.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED NEXT:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/10\/16\/mixed-signals-on-c-m-punks-potential-future-but-wwe-at-this-time-not-interested\/\">Mixed signals on C.M. 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Instead, PWTorch has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/10\/16\/michael-cole-misses-tonights-episode-of-raw-after-recently-referencing-how-few-shows-hes-missed-over-the-decades\/\" title=\"Michael Cole misses tonight&#8217;s episode of Raw after recently referencing how few shows he&#8217;s missed over the decades\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5571,"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-167505","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\/2015\/12\/ColeMichaelGG_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167505","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167511,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167505\/revisions\/167511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}