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.

During a recent edition of the “Busted Open Radio” podcast, Tommy Dreamer commented on the new partnership between WWE NXT and TNA Wrestling.

WWE and TNA Wrestling are officially in business together. On Thursday, the two professional wrestling companies announced a multi-year partnership. The partnership firmly establishes the two companies' existing working relationship.