Wade Barrett issues public statement in response to report that he’s “off the road“ for WWE
During the September 5th 2025 edition of WWE SmackDown, it was confirmed that Michael Cole and Corey Graves will be doing commentary for the show moving forward. Joe Tessitore and Wade Barrett had been the announce team up until this point.
According to Mike Johnson of PWInsider.com, Barrett will be “off the road” and won’t be calling Monday Night RAW. Johnson added that the current plan is for Cole and Graves to be the commentary team for both RAW and SmackDown.
Barrett addressed the report via Twitter/X…
”I usually ignore BS reports like this, but it’s causing needless hate to be spewed towards people I work with.
WWE have kindly given me a couple of weeks off for personal time (booked nine months ago), and then I’m back to business as usual. A complete non-story. The end.”
I usually ignore BS reports like this, but it’s causing needless hate to be spewed towards people I work with.
WWE have kindly given me a couple of weeks off for personal time (booked nine months ago), and then I’m back to business as usual. A complete non-story. The end. https://t.co/ZPcBQatnCK
— Stu Bennett 🏴🇺🇸 (@StuBennett) September 6, 2025