Corey Graves knows that he owes a great deal to Triple H.
WWE SmackDown commentator Corey Graves was a recent guest on Short and to the Point. When asked about his relationship with Triple H, Graves spoke about how refreshing WWE feels right now with The Game in charge of things in the back.
“Triple H is another guy that I owe a great deal, if not everything in my career to. He was the one that took a chance on me as a wrestler in NXT,” Corey Graves revealed. “And I know we’ve had a few conversations since that him having to shut me down broke his heart as much as it broke mine. And he’s always been sort of silently supportive. He’s always been in the back, if I need something, I’ve never hesitated to go to him and ask.
“He also is really cool and refreshing in a sense that he gives us space when he’s in gorilla. Right where the old boss sat, and instead of being told and prompted, ‘Hey, you got to say this. You have to do it this way. You have to use this verbiage.’ I think he understands that we’re all fans, and we all love this in different ways. And as the business grows and evolves, you kind of have to let go of the reins a little bit.
“I still have my guide rails; I just feel like they’re a little bit wider on each side now. Where I’d rather than trying to stay on a particular path and walk in a certain rhythm and do things a certain way, I have a little bit more leeway to be me and develop my own style. As long as all the boxes that need check continue to be checked, I don’t have to do them the same way that the six guys before me have done or that Michael Cole does, et cetera.”
WWE headsets are pretty quiet and lucid now
When asked what Hunter’s like on the headset, Graves revealed the only two times he hears something now.
“I’ve been on TV for, I think, seven years on RAW and Smackdown,” Corey Graves said. “And the last few months, I think my headsets have been as quiet and lucid as they have been ever. I only hear from him if I’m doing something terribly wrong, which, knock on wood, doesn’t happen too frequently.
“Or the other time I hear from him pretty regularly is if, much like Michael Cole, if a joke lands if I say something and it gets him [he’ll say], ‘Oh, that was really good.’ Or he’ll double down. He’ll follow up on my joke in my headset, and sometimes I’ll go, ‘Oh man, I wish I could tell the people this,’ but it just doesn’t fit.”
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