I love actually sitting at ringside watching those kinds of matches, man, because those guys went out there and left everything in the middle of that ring. “So for that young man, Carmelo Hayes, him to be in the ring with Baron Corbin, that ‘Lone Wolf' persona seems to be coming back,” he added.

he's leaving the gimmicks on the main roster.īooker T has nothing but love for the growth of Wes Lee in NXT he's going to be sticking around in NXT a little bit longer, and 2. What does the future hold for the not-so-Happy Corbin? Only time will tell, but two things appear to be true: 1. It’s no more gimmicks, no nonsense, no bulls**t.” I d**n sure don’t need a manager, and I haven’t worked eight long years to go all the way back to the beginning. I don’t need anyone bowing down to me, I don’t want a position of authority it doesn’t matter if I have pockets or what’s inside them. “I understand to dictate my future, I can’t bank on the past I have to kill it. I want people to say, ‘Who’s next for Corbin’ not, ‘Who’s Corbin going to be next?’”Corbin asked the NXT audience. Good, are you kidding me with good? What I want is to be feared and respected. I’ve got everything I want, the money, the fame, the family, but what I don’t have is the reputation.

I miscalculated experience and the nostalgia of the Lone Wolf, and I thought it’d be enough.

I didn’t walk out of there the NXT Champion like I thought I would. For Corbin, that means burning the boats and leaving the you-know-what on the main roster. After talking a whole lot of talk in his return to NXT, announcing to current NXT Champion Carmelo Hayes that he is the new gatekeeper of WWE's developmental system, Baron Corbin was served a big ole piece of humble pie at Gold Rush when his jersey was hoisted up into the rafters of the Performances Center by “Him.”Įmbarrassing? Most definitely, Corbin brought a ton of confidence back to NXT that was quickly squashed by a performer a decade his junior but in professional wrestling, like in life, it's not so much about what happens when you get knocked down but how you get back up after.

Let me tell you why that bulls**t meme