{"id":86667,"date":"2019-09-26T14:07:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=86667"},"modified":"2019-09-26T14:54:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T19:54:52","slug":"michael-cole-moves-to-smackdown-vic-joseph-taking-over-on-smackdown-more-changes-to-announce-teams-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2019\/09\/26\/michael-cole-moves-to-smackdown-vic-joseph-taking-over-on-smackdown-more-changes-to-announce-teams-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cole moves to Smackdown, Vic Joseph taking over lead announcing role on Raw, more changes to announce teams next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3803557184\" 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>WWE announced some recently rumored announce team shake-ups for next week&#8217;s new season. Michael Cole will replace Tom Phillips on Smackdown as lead play-by-play announcer, and Vic Joseph will replace Cole on Monday Night Raw. Tom Phillips&#8217; reassignment, if any, hasn&#8217;t been announced.<\/p>\n<p>On the color commentator side, Dio Maddin gets promoted to Raw &#8211; he had been doing commentary on 205 Live &#8211; and Jerry Lawler is back on the Raw team full time. Corey Graves duties get reduced to just Smackdown, and Renee Young is now considered a &#8220;special contributor&#8221; and apparently isn&#8217;t on the team. There has been talk of Fox wanting a two-person booth on Smackdown rather than three.\u00a0Byron Saxton&#8217;s reassignment, if any, hasn&#8217;t been announced. It&#8217;s possible Phillips and Saxton end up on 205 Live or Main Event.<\/p>\n<p>The move of Cole to Smackdown is further evidence that Smackdown is now considered the A-show and Raw is taking a lesser role within the WWE TV show portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The NXT team stays the same.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-3707776287\"><div id=\"pwtor-2620939041\"><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>WWE announced some recently rumored announce team shake-ups for next week&#8217;s new season. 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