WWE: Pat McAfee on His Upcoming Return to RAW Commentary Team, Bayley on Goal of Wanting to Take On Bigger Leadership Role in 2025, Sheamus Suffered Cracked Rib Injury

Pat McAfee Comments on His Upcoming Return to RAW Commentary Team

As noted before, a recent media event held by Netflix at their headquarters in Los Angeles featured WWE CCO Paul “Triple H” Levesque confirmed that Pat McAfee will be making his full-time return to the RAW brand commentary team for RAW’s move to Netflix this January.

McAfee recently reflected on Twitter about his upcoming return to WWE.

“An absolute honor to be asked back.. A. Childhood dream realized every single time I’m lucky enough to be in an arena with the @WWE
Universe.

Can’t wait to be talking into a microphone next to @MichaelCole
again.. He’s the [goat].

I’m excited to tell the worldwide audience on Netflix how great the WWE Superstars are…. and how big of scumbags some of ‘em are too.

Let’s go”

An absolute honor to be asked back.. A. Childhood dream realized every single time I’m lucky enough to be in an arena with the @WWE Universe.

Can’t wait to be talking into a microphone next to @MichaelCole again.. He’s the 🐐.

I’m excited to tell the worldwide audience on… https://t.co/OIC1JMzJ3G

— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) December 5, 2024

McAfee is currently planned to reunite with Michael Cole for RAW’s commentary team for the series premiere show on Netflix.

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Bayley Comments on Her Goal of Wanting to Take On Bigger Leadership Role in 2025

A recent episode of The Five Count podcast featured Bayley as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Bayley’s thoughts about her goals for her WWE career for 2025.

“I have to think about that myself. When I came back from injury in 2022, or the end of 2021, my main goal was not to become a champion again. I felt that I had already gotten that out of my system and accomplished a bunch of title runs. I really just wanted to see the women that I was with succeed, which were IYO SKY and Dakota Kai. Just be that leader that can push them in the right direction or be a foundation of where they started on SmackDown. From that, I really learned how much I enjoyed helping younger talent. For me, 2025 can be more of a leadership role. Not that I’m going to be out of the ring, but my goal is more bigger picture type things where I want to see the women’s division keep continuing the success that we’ve had these last few years and really start to take over and main event more shows, sell out more merch, and keep getting big. Wherever I can fit in on that, I’ll do my best at.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Sheamus Suffered Cracked Rib Injury

WWE recently announced that Sheamus had suffered a cracked rib injury at this past Saturday’s Survivor Series WarGames 2024 event in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

It was announced that Sheamus had suffered the injury during his Triple Threat match against Ludwig Kaiser and Bron Breakker for the Intercontinental Championship.

It is currently unknown how long Sheamus will be out of action due to his injury nor a timetable for a potential return.