Baron Corbin: I Had To Evolve My Game To Wrestle Guys Like Ilja Dragunov, Carmelo Hayes, And Bron Breakker

Baron Corbin is a new man.

Since coming back down to WWE NXT and finding a new start on the main roster. Baron Corbin has been enjoying a new success with his wrestling and morale coming into work every day.

In an interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Corbin talked about how he had to evolve his game to be in the position he is in today.

“It’s definitely a concentrated effort when I came back to the main roster. I went to NXT to fix a lot of things. Not just with my wrestling, but I had been beaten by everybody, I had to revamp who I was and leave that in the past, to get that fresh start on the main roster. If you saw me come out and do the same things you saw me do two years ago, you wouldn’t care. You would say, ‘Oh, he’s still the same guy.’ It is a concentrated effort to create a new way that I move and things I do in the ring to elevate it and make it exciting. Plus, down at NXT, those boys can go. I had to evolve my game to run with those guys like Ilja, Carmelo, and Bron. The list of guys you haven’t seen is amazing. I had to step my game up. It made me better for everybody to see.”

Corbin currently wrestles for WWE SmackDown while his former tag team partner Bron Breakker is in his second reign as the WWE Intercontinental Champion on WWE Raw.

H/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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