Stanford debuted in WWE in 2009, replacing Jack Korpela as the host of WWE Bottom Line. In October 2010, he became the new play-by-play commentator for WWE Superstars, replacing Michael Cole. He called his first episode on the October 7 episode of Superstars with Jerry Lawler. This team was short-lived, however, as in mid-November, injured wrestler CM Punk, who had started commentating on Raw, replaced Lawler on Superstars. At the end of December, Punk left the commentary team after assaulting John Cena on Raw and SmackDown with a chair. Starting on the December 31 episode of Superstars, Josh Mathews joined Stanford as the color commentator. In addition to his commentary duties, he hosted the pay-per-view pre-shows every month, along with Tony Dawson. Stanford was the host of the Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live pre-shows on the WWE Network until November 2016, as well as the host of This Week in WWE.