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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast.

Introducing your host from New York.

Here is Sam Roberts.

Welcome to Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast.

Who would have thought I said from the beginning that I was starting this podcast because I was a wrestling fan?

There's lots of podcasts that people make because they don't like wrestling anymore because they don't like the direction it's going because they take it too seriously.

I don't know what the reason is but they complain a lot about pro wrestling from the beginning.

I said the reason I was doing this was because I was a wrestling fan.

I like wrestling. I want to talk about wrestling and so I thought this podcast would be a good place to talk about it in a positive way.

However, in a few short weeks this podcast has become the most heat seeking wrestling podcast in all of the internet.

This podcast after last week and maybe it's all that Katie Lynn and dolls fault but this podcast is being accused of acting as a vehicle to turn Roman Reigns heal.

That's right. After hearing last week's interview people are saying, Sam, we know the WWE sent Roman Reigns to your podcast.

Sam Roberts wrestling podcast to begin his heel turn. It's the only possible explanation for him explaining that he was wanting to get rich by becoming a professional wrestler.

Well, I'm going to talk about all of that in the state of wrestling but I want to start with the interview as I always do. He hasn't done a lot of interviews but he's a palimine and somebody who I want to NXT is like my favorite thing to watch right now in terms of wrestling.

NXT, it's just it's a fun show every week. It's good wrestling. The stories are great. And that's what that's what it takes. It's the stories.

Corey Graves is a guy who had a lot of buzz as an NXT superstar. Everybody was asking when is Corey Graves going to hit the main roster and all of a sudden he disappears apparently.

I think it was at last year's WrestleMania. He got a concussion at WrestleMania fan access while wrestling a match. That was his second, I think, documented concussion and a concussion that led to the WWE and him deciding that he was he's no longer to be an active WWE superstar.

He's got a retire from wrestling. He's a young guy. He's my age. And he was told he has to retire from the ring. He did not let that stop him. I mean he retired from the ring but he's still in the business.

He is now the host of the raw pre show on the WWE network every single Monday night, 730 PM Eastern live from Stanford.

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