He admits that there was a weird vibe in the Barclay’s Center occasionally throughout the night when the action would switch between the two buildings. He felt that when the action would switch to the Manhattan Center, there was a feeling in the Barclays Center of frustration, as the audience waited for the live action to return.
Graves says that he’s very comfortable in his current role and he has fun doing it, but he doesn’t look at himself as carrying on the legacy of guys like Bobby Heenan. It’s nice when people say those things, but he’s just worried about working from one day to the next and hopefully many years from now people will think he did a good job.
He admits that he took the news pretty hard when he was told that he’d have to retire from in-ring competition. Triple H personally broke the news to him a few days before the official news was made available to him, and this lessened the shock somewhat. He quickly started paying his dues all over the company because he still had a family to take care of, and he knew that WWE wasn’t mad at him.
Cole heard about Graves’ short stint in radio years prior and suggested that he try commentary. Graves started training and he was very bad initially. He says that commentary is such a hard thing to do well and WWE struggles to find good commentators. Eventually he improved and was given an opportunity to commentate on NXT programming.
