Baron Corbin Expresses That Struggling As A Independent Wrestler Isn’t Something To Brag About
Corbin has some spicy takes on independent wrestlers.
Many WWE superstars on todays roster have come to WWE by getting their start on the independent wrestling circuit. For Baron Corbin, it was a bit different. Baron was signed fresh off his NFL career and went straight to FCW, WWE’s former training place which is now under the NXT brand and remains in the WWE performance center. So, by all means, Corbin is a homegrown WWE talent. In recent times, Corbin was off tv for a while before returning on the October 7th episode of RAW where he was alongside JBL. One of Corbin’s first matches back was against Johnny Gargano, an independent standout who made his way to WWE by being scouted from the independent wrestling scene. On today’s edition of WWE’s The Bump, Corbin was asked why he looks down on wrestlers who came up from independents. He mentioned that working there isn’t something to brag about.
[Gargano has] done some great things for somebody that nobody expected anything from. A lot of these guys, it’s a bragging right. Ten years, I’ve been wrestling for 15 years. Why is that a bragging right? I made a phone call, and the WWE brought me in for a tryout and signed me within the week. That’s how it works. I don’t need to go work for a hot dog and popcorn in your local gymnasium. That’s not what I do. It’s not a bragging right for me to go, ‘Ah, I drove around in my buddy’s Honda Civic for six hours to go to this show and then drive 12 hours to this show and the car broke down and we ran out of gas, and we didn’t money to eat. That’s not something you brag about,
– Baron Corbin via The Bump
He went on to describe how guys like Gargano and Kevin Owens give fans who want to be WWE Superstars false hope. He then stated that he stands out in a room, whereas hundreds of regular people look like Gargano and Owens.
These guys come in and that’s part of their story. They’re giving hope to hope to people who sit in the audience and go, ‘Ah, I wanna be Johnny Gargano.’ How many little kids see that? Because they have no hope, they have no goals, they have no dreams, and they wanna see a guy like that and they go, ‘Oh, man, if this little guy or Kevin Owens, this guy, I relate to him. We’re similar, we do the same things, we like the same things. I can become a WWE Superstar.’ No, you can’t. Look, this job is not for everybody. My mailman is a nice guy. This job is not for him. This is for elite level athletes, world renowned competitors, and guys when you walk into a room, they look at somebody like me and they go, ‘That guy is somebody.’ If they’ve never watched WWE before, they go, man, look at that watch, look at the diamonds that he’s wearing, look at that suit. That guy is somebody important, whether they’ve seen me or not. You walk into a room with Johnny, with Kevin, with AJ Styles, and you’re just like, oh man, there’s some people in the room hanging out. I saw 500 guys like that at the mall today. There’s a difference,
– Baron Corbin via The Bump
Big talk from a guy in dress pants and a Hawaiian shirt, huh?
H/T Fightful
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