Kevin Patrick ‘wasn’t overly upset’ by WWE release

Kevin Egan “wasn’t overly upset” by his release from WWE.

From 2021 until his release this January, the former Kevin Patrick was a member of the WWE broadcast team. He worked as a commentator, host, and backstage interviewer during his time with the company.

Egan has a background in soccer broadcasting and continued that work during his WWE career. He’s now the host of MLS 360 on Apple TV.

In an interview on Sports Media with Richard Deitsch, Egan said he thinks his release was both good for him and good for WWE. He feels there was a conflict coming up between his WWE and soccer roles, and soccer was always going to win out for him.

Football was always going to win. If there was ever a collision — and there was one on the horizon, very clearly on the horizon. You know, if I’m in Boise, Idaho on a Friday night, for example, doing SmackDown, how am I going to be in the studio in New York at 1 p.m. on a Saturday? And this was coming. I also wasn’t their long-term guy. They need someone who’s all in. Michael Cole has missed two shows in 27 years.

Though he was never a WWE fan growing up, Egan says working for the company was a beautiful time in his life and he wouldn’t change anything. But he feels the fans deserved more than he was offering as an announcer. Egan thinks it was time for him to leave.

And they deserve more. That chair deserves more, you know? So for me, it was time. I wanted to leave. It got to a place where — I had a chat with Michael Cole weeks before and I said, ‘Look, if there’s a thinking here that I move on, fine. I’m good. Let’s hug it out. Let’s be on our way.’

I still talk to Michael Cole on the phone. When we went through with the release and everything else, I told him he’s the best boss I ever had. And I stand by that. He’s a tremendous guy and everyone I worked with was great. It’s a chapter in your life. I wasn’t overly upset about it at all, I don’t think they were. I think it worked out for the best for the product on TV and for me. I’m all in on what I’m doing now, and I love it. But when WWE’s in Atlanta, I’ll pop down and I’ll say hello to some friends.

Before his release, Egan was part of the SmackDown announce team. He had previously done commentary for Raw. Michael Cole & Pat McAfee (Raw) and Corey Graves & Wade Barrett (SmackDown) are WWE’s current commentators.