Corey Graves On Triple H: He Has Given More Leeway On Commentary To Let Me Be Myself And Develop My Style

Corey Graves has praise for the new regime.

In February, it was announced that Corey Graves would be joined by Wade Barrett as the new team for SmackDown’s commentary. Graves has worked under Vince McMahon in the past and now under Triple H in his last decade with the WWE.

In an interview with Jessica Kleinschmidt on Short and to the Point, Graves spoke about his relationship with Triple H and stated that he owes him a lot for giving the commentary team space to be themselves.

“Triple H is another guy that I owe a great deal, if not everything in my career, to. He’s the one that took a chance on me as a wrestler in NXT. I know we’ve had a few conversations since then. Him having to shut me down broke his heart as much as it broke mine. 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 sort of refreshing in the sense of, he gives us space when he’s in Gorilla, like where the old boss sat. Instead of being told and promoted, ‘Hey, you have to say this, you gotta do it this way, you have to use this verbiage,’ he I think understands that we are 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 reigns a little bit. I still have my guide rails. I just feel like they’re a little wider on each side now, where 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 to be are 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,” Graves said.

You can listen to the team of Graves and Barrett every Friday night on SmackDown on FOX.

h/t from Fightful.

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