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#3 Corey Graves on Vince McMahon talking to him during commentary

Corey Graves

WWE commentators have a difficult job of commentating for 2/3 hours every show, keeping track of everything that's going as well as commentating on a live show, but they also have the added difficulty of relaying what their boss, Vince McMahon, tells them in their earpiece.

Corey Graves, who features on both RAW and SmackDown, has become an entertaining commentator, but he recently revealed in a podcast with Sean Mooney that McMahon yelled at him during commentary and revealed what happened later.

“The first time he reprimanded me for anything, I was on camera. It’s different when you’re not on camera, you can kinda play it naturally and acknowledge it. But when you’re staring at the lights, and all of a sudden Vince is yelling at you in your ear, it’s like really hard to keep your composure and keep your train of thought, and I’m pretty sure when it happened, I just locked up in the middle of a sentence, because it was like ‘oh no, I’m dead! What’s happening?’,” said Graves. (H/T Cageside Seats for the transcription)

Graves then said that he has earned the trust of the WWE Chairman and that it was hard at first, but he is used to it now:

"So I think I’ve earned his trust to a point, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still moments where I’ll say something and he’ll, you know, I can’t necessarily repeat what he says to me all the time, but it’s definitely an experience. It was definitely hard to get used to, but now I think I am as used to it as I will ever get.”