As noted last night, WWE has made changes to their announce teams. Lawler is the odd man out on Smackdown but he will remain with the company. WWE announced the following:
In addition to the commentary booth updates on Raw, SmackDown Live and more, WWE Hall of Famers Booker T and Jerry “The King” Lawler will bring their decades of experience in sports-entertainment to recurring Pre-Shows and Kickoffs as key analysts, among other names still to be announced. Stay with WWE.com for additional updates.
I guess the silver lining for Lawler is that he will no longer need to travel to TV every week. Lawler is one of WWE’s longest tenured on-air personalities. He has been with the company since 1993 and, besides quitting the company for a few months in 2001 and 2012 after suffering a heart attack, his voice has been a staple of WWE programming.
