Corey Graves returned to NXT on January 7 after serving as a main roster announcer for eight-and-a-half years. He later posted on X that someone told him he was “not famous enough” for his position. Graves deleted these posts and missed the January 14 episode of NXT.
On Sportskeeda’s The Wrestling Outlaws, Vince Russo addressed WWE’s decision to replace Graves with Pat McAfee as Michael Cole’s RAW commentary partner.
Here we go again: the ego of the wrestler. Bro, they are on Netflix. This is huge for them. Pat McAfee has a huge reach. People know who Pat McAfee is. I would dare say a minimum of five times the amount of people know who McAfee is compared to Corey Graves. So, the WWE wants to do a big splash, ‘We’re going on Netflix, let’s put McAfee on there to get his audience and to get his following.’
Graves returned as a commentator on NXT last night, January 21.