The Young Professor

The Young Professor Host & Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas. Pro live event host. Sharp dressed man 🤵 Ladies. Gentlemen.

Boys and Girls... and Live Event Enthusiasts from around the world! The Young Professor Matt Graifer has been an a live event host, announcer, DJ and speaker for over a decade and has performed in front of more than 1,000,000 people in that time! He is best known as the Host/Chief Potassium Enthusiast for The Savannah Bananas, and he has also announced for NASCAR at the 2022 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at

the Daytona International Speedway. He began his sports career as a professional wrestling ring announcer, before adding MMA, boxing, and then team sports event hosting to his repertoire, working for teams and events like the Daytona Tortugas MiLB team, the Jacksonville Sharks arena football team, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Men's/Women's Basketball teams, the NXL Paintball World Cup, and many more. The Young Professor (aka Matt Graifer) was ACTUALLY that: a young professor! At the age of 25, he started as a professor of an exercise science program where he taught 25 separate collegiate level courses over a nearly 8 year span. He then spent several years as a high school social studies teacher. The Daytona Beach News Journal named him Best Live Entertainer in 2018 and in 2022 he was named one of the 40 Under Forty for the same newspaper. The Professor maintains a remarkably busy schedule, but is always interested in new, exciting opportunities. If you or someone you know is in need of a host, DJ, or motivational speaker for your event: you'd be hard pressed to find someone more experienced, better dressed, or more FUN than the one and only Young Professor!

I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to the tonight, but I did meet a few years ago when he was hanging out ...
02/09/2025

I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to the tonight, but I did meet a few years ago when he was hanging out with . So: shout out KC Wolf .

I will never not get excited to see the Goodyear Blimp flying high in the sky. I still can’t believe I was lucky enough ...
02/09/2025

I will never not get excited to see the Goodyear Blimp flying high in the sky. I still can’t believe I was lucky enough to hitch a ride in that puppy last year 🎈

There are fewer things cooler in life than seeing folks at Dunkin' selling donuts with your face on them.It was awesome ...
02/08/2025

There are fewer things cooler in life than seeing folks at Dunkin' selling donuts with your face on them.

It was awesome connecting with so many amazing The Savannah Bananas fans this morning in Glendale!

I do my little turn on the catwalk.
02/07/2025

I do my little turn on the catwalk.

Back at it!!
02/05/2025

Back at it!!

02/04/2025

I had the privilege of working with The Bronx Wanderers a couple years ago and I introduced them on stage, and they are an absolute blast. You’ll have an amazing time at this show!

Today was a cool day… I missed him by a month in 2022 when I announced the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Dayona , but go...
02/02/2025

Today was a cool day… I missed him by a month in 2022 when I announced the NASCAR Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Dayona , but got the chance to announce a LEGEND today at The Savannah Bananas game:

The one and only Kurt Busch!! 🏎️ 🏁

Life is but a dream 🙏 Good morning Bananamaniacs! Feeling grateful to do what I do for a living, and to perform in so ma...
02/02/2025

Life is but a dream 🙏

Good morning Bananamaniacs! Feeling grateful to do what I do for a living, and to perform in so many iconic places for such incredible people.

Now let’s go! Game 2 in Mesa 🌵

Boyz out here representing
01/31/2025

Boyz out here representing

CSRA locals Mikey Gulino and Cody Fluffman are helping the team entertain by being a part of the “Dad Bod Cheerleading Squad.”

01/31/2025

Check out the Captain of the World Famous Banana Nanas: Nana Karen ! My fellow Rowan University alumni! 🦉 📚

The Savannah Bananas

01/28/2025

📝 YOU WRITE THE STORY 📝

We did some fun prep exercises for The Savannah Bananas World Tour over a snowy weekend in Savannah with the guys from Shine Entertainment, including this funky one where I had to listen to and successfully recount two 30 second stories from Jesse Cole and Rad Bod Mikey told to me via whisper simultaneously in each ear 👂

I was able to nail details on both.

What stories did they tell me? Tell me in the comments!

01/26/2025

This reel is picking up tons of traction ahead of both the Royal Rumble and the beginning of The Savannah Bananas season, so here it is again: the WWE Champ gets a custom Banana Ball jersey

Today was a cool day for a whole lot of reasons, but I’m going to focus on one, and it’s an explanation of this photo.Fo...
01/25/2025

Today was a cool day for a whole lot of reasons, but I’m going to focus on one, and it’s an explanation of this photo.

For those that follow, you know I just celebrated 7 years of being an announcer and host in sports. When I started my pro wrestling journey, there were no books, courses, or classes to help me become a better announcer (those things STILL don’t exist… yet). All I could do was carefully study others who were doing it at the highest level and see what I could adapt.

For me, especially in 2018, the person I studied the most was then-WWE announcer . Greg blew me away all the time. He was easily the best in the game and I studied his stance, his mannerisms, his style… you name it. I took a few things that I thought worked for me, and now some 7 years later I’ve been able to become a pretty darn prominent host myself.

Greg and I connected via social media about a year ago, and today, he and of came out and did an awesome workshop with the hosts, player hosts, and NEW hosts of Banana Ball, and it was so enjoyable to sit under the learning tree in person of someone I’ve long admired from afar. It was nice to get some truly organized methods and best practices out to all of us in the group, and it was even more fun working on breathing and improv exercises with such a talented group of people.

🗣️🎙️

Congrats to CC Sabathia for getting the call to the hall in Cooperstown!
01/22/2025

Congrats to CC Sabathia for getting the call to the hall in Cooperstown!

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Want to see the most unhinged fan-participant activation I’ve ever hosted? Ladies and gentlemen I proudly give to you: Low Hanging Fruit with @thesavbananas 🍌 😳 #host #mc #emcee #announcer #savannahbananas #lowhangingfruit

Introducing @nascar Champion @kurtbusch as a guest pinch runner for @thesavbananas , who winds up getting driven in by @coach.rac ! #savannahbananas #nascar #announcer #mc #emcee #host

🗣️🎙️1 MORE DAY🗣️🎙️ It all begins again tomorrow in Arizona! Back on tour with @thesavbananas for the 2025 @bananaball World Tour! Here’s one more throwback with @isaacrpowell as we got the crowd in Boston all fired up outside of @fenwaypark #host #mc #emcee #announcer #bananaball #boston #singing #travel

🍌 ⚾️ 2 DAYS AWAY ⚾️🍌 The 2025 @bananaball World Tour kicks off Saturday in Mesa, AZ 🌵 as @thesavbananas take on @thepartyanimals Here’s a little memory from @nationalspark in Washington DC as we got set to open the gates for what would be an incredible night of Banana Ball! 🇺🇸 #host #mc #emcee #announcer #savannahbananas #knocksquad

Prep for the Banana Ball World Tour
Prep for the Banana Ball World Tour

📝 YOU WRITE THE STORY 📝 We did some fun prep exercises for The Savannah Bananas World Tour over a snowy weekend in Savannah with the guys from Shine Entertainment, including this funky one where I had to listen to and successfully recount two 30 second stories from Jesse Cole and Rad Bod Mikey told to me via whisper simultaneously in each ear 👂 I was able to nail details on both. What stories did they tell me? Tell me in the comments! #improv #training #coaching #host #mc #emcee #announcer #entertainer #savannahbananas

⚾️ HOST WARMUP FROM THE GREEN MONSTER ⚾️ 5 days until the 2025 @bananaball world tour kicks off, and I’m reflecting back on some fun moments from the 2024 tour. Here’s a snippet of my opening crowd warmup at 530pm from atop the world famous #greenmonster at @fenwaypark with the rowdy #Boston faithful! 🗣️🎙️ #bestinclass #host #mc #emcee #announcer #bananaball

My dream. #funny #viral #host #mc #emcee #announcer #peanut #nutmobile

I swear I never set Alexa to do this, but I am the one who pays the bill so 🤷‍♂️ #married #marriedlife #husbandwife #funny #ricflair #wrestling

January 13th is my announcer-versary! 🗣️🎙️ On this date in 2018: I stepped in front of a sports crowd for the very first time. As you can see: a lot has changed when it comes to my approach since then… It’s pretty cool that I have actual footage of that very first time. That said: how did I do in my first go-round? #debut #beginner #mc #host #announcer #wrestling #sports #manifest #motivation

1/10/2018 - I saw a post that changed my life. 1/13/2018 - I showed up to my first show, and I’ve been coming back constantly ever since. When you see a sign: do something about it.

Saturday is for the #tightpants #whitepants out here at @themasterspb @ppatour in a Palm Springs, CA. Every time I wear these, I can only think of @jimmyfallon and #WillFerrell on @fallontonight for obvious reasons 🤣 #pickleball #host #announcer #mc #comedy #emcee #fashion #drip #style

Giving the @wwe champ @americannightmarecody his very own custom @thesavbananas jersey. Excited to watch @wwe_on_netflix tonight!! #wwe #raw #rawonnetflix #netflix #codyrhodes #bananaball #savannahbananas

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