WWE star Corey Graves 'tried to get fired' claims emerge after social media meltdown
Corey Graves intentionally tried to get himself fired from the WWE after his demotion meltdown, it has been claimed.
The announcer posted a series of stern social media posts shortly after WWE Raw on Netflix went off the air. Graves posted a statement to social media expressing anger after he revealed he was moved from Raw to NXT, a show directed at launching the next superstar. He claims the call was made because he was “not famous enough”.
However the social media posts, now deleted, have made such a stir with Triple H and co that he was dropped for the January 14th NXT. The commentator was also absent for the latest WWE Speed match, which is broadcast on social media platform X.
Speaking about the situation on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer stated that Graves was unhappy with the change in line-up: “I was told that the Raw announce team would be in January, Michael Cole and Pat McAfee, and the SmackDown team would be Corey Graves and Joe Tessitore.
"So then, I’m gonna say maybe a couple of weeks ago, not that long ago, I just kinda asked so is it Joe Tessitore and Corey Graves that are gonna be the hosts of SmackDown, since that’s what I had already been told, and the answer was, ‘To be determined. It’s not determined.’"
He added: "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. 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."
