Corey Graves gives his thoughts on some of the criticism his work receives via social media.
Current Monday Night Raw commentator Corey Graves has been a color commentator for WWE for nearly eight years. He’s been on the call for NXT, 205 Live, NXT UK, Raw, SmackDown and is a co-host of WWE’s After The Bell podcast.
Graves recently chatted with Ryan Satin on the Out of Character show and they dove into some of the negative comments about Graves’ work on commentary via social media. He explained that his role is more layered than just talking about wrestling and being a fan of the sport. Graves added that a lot of people have the idea that they can do his job.
But I think particularly for me, the issue that I have is from an outside perspective, a lot of people think they can do my job. My job is to be the snarky, smart aleck bad guy who talks about wrestling, who acts like an expert and acts like I know better than everybody else so a lot of people at home don’t realize that yes, just as much as anybody else on TV, I’m portraying a character. It’s me with the volume cranked up but people go, ‘Oh, I could be a sports commentator, I could do this, I could do that.’ Do you know why there’s only one Joe Buck? Because he’s the best, because people can’t do what Joe Buck does, you know what I mean? Across the board, there’s a lot more that goes into our jobs sitting at ringside than just talking about wrestling and being wrestling fans.
Corey was present on the 11/1 Raw and to get a recap of that show, check out the latest Rewind-A-Raw episode.
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