WWE color commentator Corey Graves caught up with Edge and Christian on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness last week before Jonathan Coachman replaced Booker T on commentary on WWE Monday Night RAW. Among many other things, Graves discussed the differences in calling RAW and SmackDown Live.
Graves indicated that he prefers working RAW to SmackDown.
“I have more fun on Mondays because I can really help delve into a story or a character with some layers, some depth, because that’s what’s fun to me.” Graves added, “I make most of this stuff up. Some guys will come up to me and give me little tidbits here and there, but usually I’ll just go into business for myself and try to make myself laugh.”
As a commentator, Graves prefers having more time to tell the stories; however, ‘The Savior Of Misbehavior’ claimed he could understand how some fans prefer SmackDown’s two-hour format.
“I completely understand and I look at it this way. And I actually agree with you. Three hours is a really long time. From a personal perspective, I enjoy getting to do what I do longer. I don’t feel rushed.” Graves continued, “it’s a lot of an investment to ask for anybody’s time for anything! Three hours is a long, long time, so I get that. I think the pacing of SmackDown, from a fan’s perspective, I could see that actually being a little more enjoyable and from the best of my recollection, RAW used to be like that. When it was two hours, it was a lot more, bang, bang, bang, here’s this match, here’s that match, boom, boom, boom, constantly moving.”
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