In recent weeks WWE has made some big changes to the announce teams and Corey Graves ended up moving to the NXT brand. Graves took to social media earlier this week to vent his frustrations with the move, and it was later reported that he was pulled from Tuesday’s episode of NXT.
Dave Meltzer recently discussed the situation on Wrestling Observer Radio and noted that he was told months ago that Joe Tessitore and Corey Graves would be the SmackDown announce team in January when Michael Cole moved to Raw alongside the returning Pat McAfee. However, a few weeks ago the word was that the SmackDown announce team was “to be determined.”
“Now I guess it was a couple of weeks ago when Corey Graves got the word that Wade Barrett was gonna replace him on that show, and he wasn’t happy. I don’t know if he got the word he was gonna start in January in NXT, I don’t know the situation there. I just know that that’s when he found out that he wasn’t gonna be on SmackDown as he presumed he would be. So he was genuinely unhappy. So that led to that.”
Meltzer continued by saying that some people in the company think that Corey Graves was trying to get fired when he vented his frustrations on social media. However, it’s being said that it’s unlikely WWE will fire Graves.
“Now why you would go on Twitter and do all this? I can’t answer that question. There’s people there who think that he was trying to get fired and that’s why he did it. If he was trying to get fired, they probably aren’t gonna fire him, because I don’t think they want him going to AEW if they give him a release.
They could also suspend him, which maybe they’ve done for all we know. It doesn’t have to be announced that they’ve suspended him. I don’t know what’s going on there, but he was removed from doing the show on Tuesday night after Tuesday morning, basically tweeting ‘You better tune in Tuesday night.’”
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