WWE Commentator Corey Graves Teaching ‘Live Sports Production’ Course At Point Park University

A new profession that Graves has taken on.

There’s a story that TribLIVE posted on their website about WWE commentator Corey Graves taking on the position of a college professor at Point Park University in his home state of Pennsylvania.

Graves told the outlet about how the opportunity came about:

“I was invited over the last year or two to speak at Point Park College to their broadcasting students,” Graves said. “It was wrestling-centric, but there were also quite a few students who were broadcasting-specific, not necessarily wrestling fans. It went well; they asked me to come back again, and I did. The second time went better than the first.”

An email exchange between Graves and university officials took place, and they asked him to teach a course. Graves thought the idea was absurd.

Point Park University’s chair of the school of communications department, Dr. Bernie Ankney, did not agree with Graves’ comment that it is absurd and said the following about the WWE commentator:

“I was really impressed with the way he interacted and mentored 18-, 19-, 20-year-old students and just watching the energy he brought to his presentation,” Ankney said. “I thought it would be worth looking into Corey teaching a class. Somebody like that, if you put him in the classroom, students are familiar with his work.

The big thing for him was this: Not every student is going to be interested in wrestling. He wanted to do something a little broader for that Point Park student who wants to be involved in a pre-game show for baseball, or a post-game show for women’s basketball. He wanted to create a class that will serve students in what their current interests are, what their professional interests are. He felt Live Sports Production, there are a lot of facets to it.”

During the summer of 2025 and into the fall, Graves and Ankney created the details of the class, subject matter, and curriculum for a course called Live Sports Production. It is a three-hour course on Wednesdays, and Graves has 12 students.

Graves stated that TKO has embraced his new position, and it is much different than how things would have been handled under the old WWE regime.

“TKO has seemingly been a lot more open to collaboration and allowing talent to step outside WWE, more so than the old WWE regime,” Graves said. “Anybody who works for WWE has had an opportunity of some sort that they’ve had to turn down because they couldn’t get permission, or it was a conflict of interest. This really isn’t a wrestling class; it was a broadcasting class. I took it to my manager, and they’ve been supportive to help me with making this happen.”

Graves calls the action of Monday Night Raw on Netflix alongside Michael Cole.