Welcome, welcome, welcome to After the Bell. I am still Corey Graves and the world is still

right with rumors speculation in the innuendo. And of course, you know, we here at ATB have got you covered. Of course, I can't do this by myself. I need a little help pulling the weight. He helps me Monday nights on raw. He is my co-host here on After the Bell Kevin Patrick K P. What's the word?

Are you good rumors lately? Nada, absolutely nothing. How are you doing, Paille? Hope, hope all's well. I'm still recovering from Monday night raw and the fun we had. Let's be honest here. Can we let a little little little liner to in here on how you and I experienced Dominic Mysterio because I have never seen you as giddy as you were during Monday night raw and Dominic's entrance and what played out afterward.

And much to the contrary, I have never seen more fear in your eyes, Kevin Patrick, then when you came face to face with real Ripley when real leaned over the desk. I thought that was probably the last sentence you would ever spoken on global television. Luckily you survived.

But let's talk about it. The world is buzzing about it. Twitter was on fire social media on all platforms for the days in the wake of Monday night raw Tuesday Wednesday as we're recording this.

The world's still talking about the world's hardest criminal Dominic Mysterio, but you listen to yourself. You're still banging on about this. The world's hardest criminal.

That's right. And this flannel and his teardrop tattoo under his eye. It was television gold. It was so much fun in the moment. Few hours in county jail and he's banging on like he's Andy Dufrein. It was fun. You had a wrap, which I want you to bring each and every week now on Monday night raw. Any promises? Can you continue this trend?

I cannot make any promises. I can't really believe that I successfully didn't trip over my own tongue and trying to alter infamous two-poch lyrics to Chris and Dom's arrival in full final street hard form to WWE.

Man, you were sitting beside me. No one in Birmingham was having as much fun for that tag deem turmoil match as you and I.

What made it so much fun for you, the Dominic story and his appearance on raw?

It's just fun. It's entertaining. It's just you don't have to think too hard about it. It's why it's what I love about this business when you can sort of shut your brain off for a little bit and just have fun.

You and everybody else not named Corey Graves in the legacy arena on Monday night, everyone not part of a judgment day wanted to see Dominic get punched in the face.

That is the sort of stuff that in this day and age you don't get enough of. Everybody says, oh, that's my favorite bad guy.

Oh, that guy's such a good bad guy. That guy's such an entertaining bad guy. No, people don't like Dominic and it is so rare in 2023 to have anybody who gets a genuine reaction of disdain from the WWE Universe.

Not in a sense that it's, oh, well, this is going to be a good match. We know that so and so is very talented. We know that they always say compelling things.

People just want to watch Dom get beat up and then you factor in rear Ripley who listen, let's be honest, the WWE Universe a lot of them have a have a crush on right.

Rea's a very attractive person to many different people. So the fact that she comes out flaunting her relationship, whatever the details may be with Dominic Mysterio.

There are so many guys around the globe that are going, God, are you kidding me? She's with him. I've experienced it to a much lesser extent with because of who my wife is, right. People see me and go, why would she see what's in Corey Graves? He's an announcer. He's not this.

He's not that it makes people mad. It's just an inherent thing and I love it. Dominic has played it and exploited it perfectly. I love the evolution. I love how it was overnight. There was no slow burn to him circling the bowl and then going down the drain.

It was, oh no, I spent a few hours in lock up. Now I am a legitimate thug. I love it. It is so much fun to me.

I climbed down from the bunk and I said to him, you got a problem. I'm looking at you. You're pressing the cuff button. You know, on our announced next is a cuff button in case you need to cuff. You're pressing that thing because you don't want your laughter to come across on the air in that moment.

I didn't listen and it's translated. Like I said, I for once I couldn't title last time I opened my social media after a show and it was positive toward my performance. But it was just fun. Everything everybody was in on it. Everybody just enjoyed watching it play out. I am so curious to see where the story goes with Dominic as a vital part of the judgment day, which I want to talk a little bit more about because there's more to it than Dominic. Obviously, Dom's getting all the love right now and Ria is always a featured aspect of that faction.

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