Corey Graves On How Triple H Produces Commentators, Says He Gives Them ‘Space’

In an interview with Short and to the Point (via Fightful), Corey Graves spoke about how Triple H produces commentators in WWE, noting that he gives them space to grow.

He said: “Triple H is another guy that I owe a great deal, if not everything in my career, to. He’s the one that took a chance on me as a wrestler in NXT. I know we’ve had a few conversations since then. Him having to shut me down broke his heart as much as it broke mine. He’s always been sort of silently supportive. He’s always been in the back. If I need something, I’ve never hesitated to go to him and ask. He also is really cool and sort of refreshing in the sense of, he gives us space when he’s in Gorilla, like where the old boss sat. Instead of being told and promoted, ‘Hey, you have to say this, you gotta do it this way, you have to use this verbiage,’ he I think understands that we are all fans and we all love this in different ways, and as the business grows and evolves, you kind of have to let go of the reigns a little bit. I still have my guide rails. I just feel like they’re a little wider on each side now, where rather than trying to stay on a particular path and walk in a certain rhythm and do things a certain way, I have a little bit more leeway to be me and develop my own style, as long as all the boxes that need to be are checked, I don’t have to do them the same way that the six guys before me have done, or that Michael Cole does, et cetera. I’ve been on TV for I think seven years on Raw and SmackDown, and in the last few months, I think my headsets have been as quiet as they have been, ever [laughs]. I only hear from him if I’m doing something terribly wrong, which, knock on wood, doesn’t happen too frequently, or the other time I hear time from him pretty regularly is if, much like Michael Cole, if a joke lands. If I say something and it gets him, he’ll go, ‘Oh, that was really good,’ or he’ll double down and he’ll follow up on my joke in my headset.“