WWE has announced that the broadcast teams for Raw and Smackdown have officially been changed up. The company sent out a press release confirming that Michael Cole, Booker T and John Bradshaw Layfield will handle play-by-play and color commentary on Raw starting next week while Michael Cole, Jerry “The King” Lawler and Byron Saxton will be the broadcast for SmackDown when it moves to Thursday next week.
Cole, Lawler and JBL will continue to be the broadcast team for PPVs.
Here is the official WWE announcement from WWE.com:
As SmackDown prepares to move to Thursday nights next week on Syfy, WWE Universe members will be seeing some new faces behind both the Raw and SmackDown announce desks.
Starting Monday on Raw, Michael Cole and JBL will be joined each week by WWE Hall of Famer Booker T, while the new SmackDown announce team will consist of Cole, newcomer Byron Saxton and incomparable WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler. Cole, JBL and Lawler will continue to provide commentary during WWE pay-per-view events.
Check out both of these announce teams in action on Raw, Monday night at 8/7 CT on USA Network, and SmackDown on its new night, Thursday at 8/7 CT on Syfy!