Backstage Support Growing For Corey Graves To Re-Join WWE Main Roster Commentary

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Is Corey Graves headed back to WWE main roster commentary in a full-time role?

Graves, who was a regular on the Raw and SmackDown announce teams in recent years, was replaced by Pat McAfee when Raw made its Netflix debut back in January.

That led to Graves publicly criticizing the decision in a post on X, where he shared his frustrations of being told he was not “famous enough” for the position.

After McAfee replaced him on Raw, Graves joined Vic Joseph and Booker T on the NXT commentary team.

However, there could be a movement within WWE to get Graves back on the main roster sooner rather than later.

According to WrestleVotes, there is a strong push within WWE to get Graves back on main roster commentary regardless of who is available on the other announce teams.

He has re-joined his old broadcast partner Michael Cole on Raw the past several weeks to fill in for McAfee, who recently noted he was getting “pretty exhausted” and needed to “catch up on life as a whole.”

“While several understand the value that Pat McAfee brings to the company, many feel like Graves is way too good and way too passionate to not be on main roster television week in and week out,” WrestleVotes stated.

The report also mentions that it’s unknown if WWE has any plans to bring back three-man commentary booths for its television programs.
 

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I thought it was gonna say support for him to return to the ring :lol
 

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I'd prefer if I didn't have to listen to either of Pat or Corey. I find both pretty fucking unbearable.
 

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I'm glad I'm not the only person who prefers Graves to McAfee. He gets really old really fast.
I initially enjoyed him when he first showed back in 2018 but that's been 7yrs he's gotten beyond stale.
 

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Graves was actually better at play by play that short time he did it last year or so than he is at color, not sure if hot take or not, but he did great
 

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I love McAfee but I honestly think for everyones best interest he's best suited as a pre/post show guy. That gives him a (roughly) monthly commitment instead of a weekly commitment which puts less of a burden on him physically. Also his schtick plays best for a live audience. Then maybe have him do the occasional spot on commentary or something, especially if one of them is out that week and he's available.
 
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I do appreciate that he's helped get Michael Cole some much needed love but other than that I really don't care about him.
 
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I don’t mind Pat that much but I realized he can be a bit much sometimes so I’ve also not minded the break from him even if I’m not that high on Graves either. Like Butters, I do appreciate what Pat did for Michael Cole and helped Cole get his flowers.

Wade and Joe on SmackDown are my current favorite commentators in WWE.
 

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My issue with Pat is more him talking a bit to much. Like during promos where Cole and Graves just listened and let the moment happen, Pat would've been reacting the whole time. Which is very fan like, and cool for if he was doing live reactions on YouTube or something, but on tv it gets a bit much sometimes.