After it was revealed that Pat McAfee was going to miss Monday Night Raw for the CFP National Championship, WWE has officially announced his replacement.

Wade Barrett will fill in for Pat McAfee on the January 20th episode of WWE RAW. ESPN previously announced that McAfee would be at the CFP National Championship game on January 20th, which would mean that he would miss Monday’s episode of WWE RAW.

Pat McAfee is missing next week’s (Jan. 20) episode of WWE Raw in Dallas due to his gig with ESPN covering the College Football Playoff National Championship at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. This is the part where Corey Graves would normally be called up from the bench to replace Pat as Raw’s color commentator for the night.

WWE and TNA announced a multi-year agreement that continued their “unprecedented crossover opportunities for NX superstars and TNA Wrestling stars”

History was made when WWE and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) announced that they were entering into a multi-year partnership. The former rivals revealed that they were now working together and allowing wrestlers to crossover onto TNA and WWE NXT respectively.