{"id":13375,"date":"2018-01-29T13:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2018-01-29T13:11:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T18:11:55","slug":"coach-jonathan-coachman-replace-booker-t-raw-commentary-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/01\/29\/coach-jonathan-coachman-replace-booker-t-raw-commentary-team\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Jonathan Coachman To Replace Booker T on RAW Commentary Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy Monday following a hectic weekend of wrestling, the WWE announced today that former WWE and ESPN broadcaster <strong>Jonathan Coachman<\/strong> was returning to the WWE and would begin tonight on <em><strong>Raw<\/strong><\/em> as part of the Raw Broadcast Team. He&#8217;ll be replacing <strong>Booker T<\/strong> as color commentary alongside<strong> Michael Cole<\/strong> and <strong>Corey Graves<\/strong>. Booker will still appear for the WWE as a guest panelist for Pay Per View Kickoff Shows.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thecoachrules?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheCoachrules<\/a> has signed with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@WWE<\/a> and makes his official return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RAW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#RAW<\/a> announce team TONIGHT! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ILfo4qjla5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ILfo4qjla5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWE (@WWE) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWE\/status\/957992286515843073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coach&#8221; began working with the WWE in 1999 as a backstage interviewer and worked with the WWE through the Attitude Era and into the Ruthless Aggression Era, where he was often a foil to such stars as <strong>The Rock<\/strong>, while maintaining positions from back stage interviews to commentator on broadcasts for Raw and Smackdown, to even interim General Manager. He left the WWE in 2008 to pursue other interests when his contract expired that year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WWE The Rock asks Jonathan Coachman to sing\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o46A1070BpM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Soon after leaving the WWE, he began to work for<strong> ESPN<\/strong>, working his way up the ladder, and holding a position with the company until his departure this past October when his contract expired with ESPN expired.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">World\u2019s collide. Anything is possible. When you do the right things and believe in each other you can do great things. This has been my vision for years and today it finally happened. WWE Universe I am privileged to be back. And it feels amazing to come back home. Philly tonight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZkOqrmUlMB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZkOqrmUlMB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Coach (@Thecoachrules) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thecoachrules\/status\/957994996841533441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 29, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy Monday following a hectic weekend of wrestling, the WWE announced today that former WWE and ESPN broadcaster Jonathan Coachman was returning to the WWE and would begin tonight on Raw as part of the Raw Broadcast Team. He&#8217;ll be replacing Booker T as color commentary alongside Michael Cole and Corey Graves. Booker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":13379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25,3],"tags":[1613,2090,2089,2091,51],"class_list":["post-13375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-raw","category-wwe-universe","tag-booker-t","tag-espn","tag-jonathan-coachman","tag-michael-cole","tag-raw"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}