The EST of WWE Binaca Belair defeated Sasha Banks to become the Smackdown Women’s Champion on the main event of WrestleMania 37 Night One and created history.
At the end of the match, Binaca Belair hit KOD and pinned Sasha Banks but Micheal Cole botched on the commentary by calling Sasha Banks kicked out for KOD, however, Corey Graves corrected it at that time. But this mistake led to online critisism from the fans.
On the latest edition of WWE After The Bell podcast, Corey Graves discussed about the Micheal Cole’s botch during the WrestleMania 37 Night One and defended his fellow commentator. He said it was a honest mistake and Cole felt bad and terrible about it. As it was main event and people have already kicked out many times so he gone in a different way. He also revealed that he told fans to leave him alone.
“If there’s anybody that’s truly unshakable, it’s [Michael] Cole. Cole felt bad, he felt terrible but I can relate. I almost thought the same thing, from our vantage point, it was not crystal clear. I’m not making excuses cause it was what it is, it didn’t take anything away from the amazing moment, it was reality. It was a very genuine real reaction, take into consideration, yes we have the monitor, yes we have audio in our headphones, but we’re also in a stadium full of 20,000 people.
“Any wrestler’s book that you have ever read says being in a stadium is very different than an arena because it takes a second, the sound has to leave and come back before anybody can truly register. I myself, wasn’t sure. Hey, it’s the main event of WrestleMania, people have kicked out of each others finishers 35 times already tonight, why wouldn’t this be any different? It was a genuine shock after that so everyone, leave Michael Cole alone.”
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— WWE (@WWE) April 11, 2021
Corey Graves also said that WrestleMania 37 Night One was so significant and emotional as it was the first time fans returned to arena after pandemic outbreak.
“Night one was so significant and emotional because it was the first. You never replicate your first, it was the first time in a year, a month and a day that we got to have fans that are the lifeblood of what we do. They weren’t cheering for Vic Joseph, they weren’t cheering for Corey Graves, they weren’t even cheering for Randy Orton or Carmella or whoever else, they were cheering for WWE and for normalcy and for WrestleMania. That to me was bigger than the biggest spectacle in live entertainment, that to me was on a human being level significant. I had genuine emotion, I had a lump in my throat, I was choking back tears, chewing on my cheeks standing on the stage just going man, we’re back. That to me was why night one was more significant.” (H/T: Wrestling Inc.)
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