Real Name: Sean Coulthard
Hometown: Amenia, New York
Promotions Worked For: World Wrestling Federation

Michael Cole is a native New Yorker and a 1988 graduate of The S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. At Syracuse he did the play-by-play for S-U football and basketball games. After graduating from college, Cole worked in radio news in Albany, New York, and then spent six years at KTRH radio, a CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas.

While in Texas, Cole covered local news at KTRH and traveled around the world for CBS radio. Among the highlights of his career: Coverage of the 51-day Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, Hurricane Andrew, the war in Bosnia, Haiti, Mexico's elections, NASA and the space shuttle program, covering the 1992 Presidential campaign trail with Bill Clinton, republican and democratic national conventions and countless other stories which shaped America in the 1990's.

In 1995 Cole moved back to New York to work for WCBS, all-news 88am and the CBS radio network. While in New York, Cole covered the 1996 presidential campaign, the TWA Flight 800 disaster, The Valu-Jet crash, the Million Man March and other headline stories. In June 1997, Cole realized his life-long dream to work in the WWF when he was hired as an announcer. Cole currently co-hosts WWF SmackDown! on UPN with Tazz and WWF Sunday Night HeAT also with Tazz, each Sunday, live from WWF New York in the heart of Times Square.

In July of 2001, while co-hosting WWF SmackDown!, Cole was brutally attacked by Stone Cold Steve Austin, the then-WWF Champion. He would not be able to announce again for a week or so due to "injury." However, when he did return, he got his revenge on Austin. He flicked "The Texas Rattlesnake" off, and then had then-World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Champion Booker T attack Austin from behind. This was Cole's only real "in-ring experience."