Does Corey Graves Want To Be Examined After Daniel Bryan Result?, Talks Raw Debut, What He Has Learned

Corey Graves recently spoke with Trib Live’s Justin LaBar about his career and whether he is interested in being medically examined following the Daniel Bryan return.

Does Graves want to be medically tested?

“That day was tough for me. I didn’t know about it. Nobody gave me a heads up. For Bryan, I was stoked. He’s a friend. He’s incredible in the ring. That’s where he belongs. It caught me off guard. I started asking questions to myself, Should I? What if? I had a few conversations with few people [in WWE]who put it out there. If you want to pursue this maybe we can look into it. So I spent about a week and a half weighing the options. It was, do I become a wrestler again and what happens?”

His Raw Debut:

“I always remember that. We stayed at the Marriott. I remember waking up looking out window seeing Pittsburgh, where I was born and raised. The journey has been so nuts as a wrestler and weird irony the first night would be in Pittsburgh. I looked out at the city and broke down with happy tears for 5 minutes. Then it’s, “Okay, it’s time to go to work.” I’ve never looked back since. Weird irony the way the world works. Then I was bummed I didn’t have an entrance, had to sneak out in the dark ‘cause I thought it would be cool with hometown boy coming out and big babyface pop but it didn’t happen.”

What has he learned:

“How difficult commentating is. The speed everything happens. Part of me always wants to look at things like a wrestling fan, I want to do right by the fans, but at same point there is so much being fed to us, happening and you don’t even realize what you’re saying half the time. There is so much business to do. People are like, “this guys sucks.” Michael Cole takes an inordinate amount of crap and is incredible. The amount of information he can process. Monday Night Raw is changing as it’s on the air. It’s crazy. Not all the time. But we don’t have show sheets. We call them bar napkin shows where you write your notes down and try to get through the segment. It’s nuts. The best, it’s fun, because you have no idea what’s next and just rolling with it. I love that. Whole new appreciation for it and anyone who has been on that side just realizes how amazing our production team is.”