Corey Graves On If He Misses In-Ring Competition

Corey Graves’ voice is heard on WWE commentary every week. He also has his own official WWE podcast, but he didn’t sign up with Vince McMahon’s company to originally be a commentator. He wanted to wrestle, but concussions put a stop to that.

While appearing on WWE The Bump, Corey Graves was asked if he misses performing in the ring. He admitted that it was a difficult transition and he did want to be a part of the action at first. At this point, Graves is quite happy in his role with WWE, but the itch does still creep up from time to time.

“For a long time I had a hard time especially watching certain guys that I came up with. Like it’s amazing how fast our fandom moves and grows. A lot of people don’t realize that I ever wrestled. I was there in the first days of NXT and I came up with the guys in the Shield and Bray Wyatt and that whole crew — those were my colleagues, my contemporaries so for a while doing commentary when I would see those guys competing I got the itch from time to time, but now it’s been a couple years and I’ve grown into this new role and I’ve fully embraced it.”

“Not to say that every once and a while I don’t get the urge to get in the ring and roll around a little bit, but I think I’ve finally grown to accept and love what I’m doing in my role.”

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Corey Graves likely won’t ever take a bump again for WWE, but that won’t keep him from being a big part of the company’s weekly television show. His voice can now be heard on FOX as a part of the two-man broadcast team with Michael Cole.

It’s great that Graves was able to accept his role in WWE, but he really doesn’t have much to complain about anyway.

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