Baron Corbin isn’t opposed to revisiting his past.
Speaking with Catch Club, Baron Corbin was asked to name the favorite phase of his career. Corbin said it’s hard to pick because each era was special to him, then shared why each one had a special meaning.
“Lone Wolf, that was my attitude. Rock and roll, roll on a motorcycle, tattoos, love that lifestyle, so it was a very natural role for me. Then stepping into the Constable role, it was a big-time change, and I had to go from a guy who’s known for being athletic and wrestling, and I had to really master promo. I had to open Raw with a six-minute monologue by myself, and that’s hard to do. I had to really learn it, so I loved the Constable phase because it got me extremely comfortable with a microphone in front of the audience and convey emotion, convey whatever story I’m trying to tell to these people and put that emotion behind it.”
Corbin said he loved being King and it felt like the first time he was actually playing a gimmick. Sad Corbin (aka Bum Ass Corbin) was supposed to last a few weeks but it was so successful that it took on a life of its own.
“I dove in so hard on that and put everything I had into that character to making it believable. Because people, they go, ‘Oh, wrestling’s fake’ or whatever. But when you can take a character or what you’re doing in the ring and get people to buy into it and forget that it’s a show, then it’s really special. People bought into that because I would do my entrance, and people are trying to hand me money. I’m not really poor, I’m okay, but that just proved to me, they’re buying into what I’m doing. I think people, for the first time in my career, they were sympathetic. They felt bad for me, they were kind of halfway cheering for me. It was a wild ride.”
Baron Corbin says he’d love to get back to the “grittiness” of the Lone Wolf and proposed combining all of his gimmicks and getting another run with the result.
“Then we became Happy Corbin, and that was some thorn that was high energy, outlandish, but I would love to kind of get back to that grittiness of the Lone Wolf, but mix in a little bit of everything. The Lone Wolf was a little one-dimensional. It didn’t have all the dimensions I think you need to be like a John Cena or a Roman Reigns. Roman Reigns can take you from him being just a big bully to you can see the frustration or the sadness, or when he feels like the table’s crumbling, he can take you through all those emotions, and I think that’s what you need to have a successful character.
“So I’ve gotten these different characters, and they’ve all been very different. It’s been a tough guy, badass, then it was the rule follower, nose up, I’m better than everybody with the Constable. Then the king, it was the power and the grace. Then Sad Corbin was a whole different emotion that people got to experience, then into Happy Corbin. I’ve given everybody every emotion now. It’s like let’s combine them all, put them into one thing and make some magic.”
Baron Corbin also started working with JBL as the ‘The Modern Day Wrestling God’ in October. The two were featured on the RAW brand, but the partnership dissolved in February.
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