Report: People In WWE Believe Corey Graves Tweeted About His Unhappiness To Try And Get Fired

People within WWE believe Corey Graves expressed his unhappiness on social media earlier this week in an attempt to try and get fired by the company.

Graves was moved from Friday Night SmackDown to WWE NXT at the beginning of 2025, a change which prompted Graves to tweet on Monday, January 13:

"Imagine chasing your dream. Then being TOLD (not deciding) that you’re no longer physically able to pursue your dream. Then you dedicate your life to something “dream adjacent” and being pretty f****** awesome at it.

"And then, when it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your labor, being told you’re not famous enough for your own job. Just in case you’ve wondered where I've been."

Graves then noted on social media that he would say more on NXT which led many to believe the situation was a work. It has since been claimed, however, that Graves was legitimately frustrated about being moved to NXT and the announcer was nowhere to be seen on Tuesday night's edition of NXT from the WWE Performance Center. Graves was spotted earlier on Tuesday leaving Orlando.

Dave Meltzer has reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that as of late 2024, the plan for the main roster announce teams in 2025 would have seen Corey Graves on SmackDown with Joe Tessitore, with Wade Barrett as the odd man out. Those plans changed in recent weeks, though, and Graves ended up being moved to NXT. There is a belief amongst people in WWE that Graves posted his tweets to try and get fired.

"At the time I was told the Raw announce team in January would be 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 I just kind of asked...and the answer was to be determined. I guess it was a couple of weeks ago when Corey Graves got the word that Wade Barrett was going to replace him on that show and he wasn't happy. I don't know if he got the word he was going to start in January in NXT, I don't know the situation there. I just know that's when he found out he wasn't going to be on SmackDown as he presumed he would be, so he was genuinely unhappy," Meltzer said.

"Now, why you would go on Twitter and do all of 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're probably not going to fire him."

Whether Graves has been suspended or fired by WWE since his tweets is unknown. The WWE announcer has deleted the posts.

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