WWE announced earlier today that Jonathan Coachman would be returning to WWE on a full-time bases as an announcer for the RAW team. You can check out their announcement below:

“Ladies and gentlemen, “The Coach” has returned.

Jonathan Coachman, a longtime WWE interviewer and broadcaster and former ESPN personality, has signed with WWE to once again be part of the Raw announce team, WWE.com can confirm.

Coachman’s TV announcing duties will officially begin tonight, when he joins Michael Cole and Corey Graves at the Team Red announce desk.

Meanwhile, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T will resume his duties as a panelist on WWE’s pay-per-view Kickoff broadcasts and will continue to make appearances on Raw and beyond as a WWE ambassador. “

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about the commentary at last night’s Survivor Series PPV. He says that it was very tough to follow the 5-man booth, and Booker T came off as most credible out of all the commentators because he was pro-Raw through and through. Michael Cole and Corey Graves seemed to swing back and forth between supporting RAW and Smackdown Live.

In regards to Corey Graves seemingly attacking Booker T from time to time, Taz is sure that Graves wasn’t going into business for himself when he said those lines. All those shots at Booker T were definitely produced for him in Taz’s opinion. He adds that he loves Graves’ work, but Graves shouldn’t have even been on the broadcast last night given that he works on both shows.

Taz says that Graves and Cole teaming up on Booker T is actually starting to annoy him because Booker T is a former World Champion who accomplished a lot in the business. He doesn’t understand why WWE’s producers are dead set on burying Booker T.

He thought The Shield and The New Day had a good match, but he doesn’t understand why WWE bothered implementing any rules during this bout. The 6 men were going toe to toe for the majority of the match, and tags were often of little importance. He points out that Jey Uso’s flying tag to his brother was a spectacular spot.

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Block 1:

Taz opens today’s show speaking about last night’s episode of Smackdown Live.

He points out that Michael Cole was the lead commentator due to Tom Phillips being ‘on assignment’. Taz says that’s an old news term, used to explain the absence of a commentator or broadcaster when they had time off. Phillips may have been granted personal leave for family reasons or he may have had other responsibilities with the company that kept him off of last night’s show.

Nonetheless, he thought Cole did a good job as Phillips’ replacement which is no surprise since Cole is a pro. Taz does admit that having the same lead commentator on both shows – even for a short period of time – hurts the integrity of WWE’s brand split, and that’s something they should consider in the future.

Taz liked Jinder Mahal’s promo last night, and he’s intrigued by Mahal’s challenge to Lesnar. When Mahal first issued that challenge Taz was concerned that the announce team were going to undermine Mahal’s ability to defeat Lesnar, but they avoided that thankfully. Taz feels that WWE’s two major Champions should be held in similar regard.

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Jonno Mears used Chris Jericho’s ‘Walls of Jericho’ submission hold at an FCC MMA event earlier today to make his opponent tap out.

Footage of the incident has may its way to Jericho, who responded to the finish of the fight. Jericho wrote, “Haha, see? The Walls of Jericho really works!”

Hahah see the #WallsOfJericho really works! https://t.co/qJpJLn0lMz

— Chris Jericho (@IAmJericho) September 30, 2017

You can see footage of the hold below:

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Block 1:

A listener calls into the show and asks Taz what he thinks is going on with the Bayley situation right now. Taz says he doesn’t really know what’s happening, and he’s not sure if Bayley is legitimately injured. As soon as Bayley rolled to the outside of the ring and grabbed her shoulder, Michael Cole instantaneously pointed that out.

In addition, after the match Bayley was receiving medical attention in the backstage area and the camera team filmed her during the entire process. From what Taz can remember, camera teams were forbidden to film when talent were legitimately injured like that, so this was a red flag to Taz.

The caller asks Taz what he thinks WWE is planning for Sasha Banks moving forward. Taz says that it appears as if WWE is taking the slow burn approach in turning Banks heel. He points out that a triple threat match at SummerSlam between Bliss, Banks and Bayley might be the way they’re headed. Of course, Nia Jax has to be factored into the equation there somewhere as well.

Another listener calls into the show and asks Taz where he thinks Bobby Roode will go when WWE officials decide to move him from NXT to the main roster. Taz thinks that we’ll see Roode on Smackdown Live, because that’s the better show right now and Roode will fit better there.

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