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As we reported yesterday, Raymond Rougeau and Jean Brassard revealed on social media that they will no longer be providing French commentary for WWE PPVs and have been let go from the company. At the time, it was said this was due to restructuring at Peacock.
The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Peacock made the call to cancel all international commentary except for Spanish. Peacock is only available in the United States, but WWE Network still streams internationally. The idea is that WWE will continue to have French commentary, but only for France, and only with local commentators.
Rougeau and Brassard worked together for years, then stopped but reunited in 2017. They had worked every PPV since then, until the pandemic. They were absent for a few months, before Brassard (who lives in New York) was brought in for Summerslam. He did the shows himself from the office in Stanford. Rougeau lives in Rawdon, Quebec, so he hasn’t been used since the pandemic started.
Longtime WWE French-language commentators Jean Brassard and Raymond Rougeau are no longer working with the company.
Brassard took to Twitter this week and announced that they are no longer working with WWE “due to restructuring via Peacock” and the WWE Network.
“My heart is heavy having to share that due to restructuring via the Peacock Network, Raymond Rougeau and I are no longer commenting for WWE as of today. Thank you for all these wonderful years! -I will continue to entertain you one way or another! [folded hands emoji] [raised fist emoji] [heart emoji],” Brassard wrote.
Brassard and Rougeau originally called WWE action together from 1994-1999 when their contracts ended. Rougeau, who also had an in-ring career with WWE, would work various roles with the company over the years until they were both brought back in 2017. WWE brought Brassard and Rougeau back in 2017 to be the French-speaking voices of the WWE Network, according to Brassard on his website.
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