WWE star Baron Corbin was recently interviewed by Sporting News to talk about several professional wrestling topics. Corbin discussed the extra pressure brought on by the King Of The Ring tournament, and needing to have taken time off after Extreme Rules earlier this year.
Here are the highlights:
Pressure brought on by King Of The Ring:
I think there’s a lot more pressure when you bring a tournament into it. You have single elimination and it’s something that can make a guy’s career. It’s a moment that will be remembered forever. I try to make those moments in my career and there are so many of them that I find special. Debuting at WrestleMania and winning the Andre (the Giant Memorial Battle Royal), those are moments that people fight 10, 12 years for, throughout their whole career.
When you get something as special as King of the Ring, you look at the Hall of Famers who have won that. It’s incredible what kind of level it takes them to from (Steve) Austin to Booker to Hunter (Triple H) and Bret (Hart), these guys are icons in what we do. They’re all people we looked up to for years. To get your name on a list with those guys, that’s something truly special. There’s so many great aspects that come with it.
I love the fact that it’s a tournament and it’s single elimination. My whole life has been based that way with football, getting to the playoffs, getting to the championship game because you have to be on all the time. You can’t have an off night. I think it separates the greats from everybody else.
Needing time off after Extreme Rules:
I did. I feel like it was a good thing to kind of recalibrate and look at things and see what I can change or evolve. Plus, just to kind of give the fans a break for a minute, to be missed. It’s so funny because my social media would be like, “Oh my goodness, a ‘RAW’ without Baron Corbin, that was the greatest thing ever” to like after three weeks going “Wait, where’s he at? I miss him.” It’s kind of a wild thing.
So I think it was a good thing for myself and for everybody to get that little break and reload. If you see the same thing over and over and over, you get kind of tired of it. I think that’s a really cool thing about King of the Ring; we pulled it back for a few years and now it’s back and people are really excited about it.
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