WWE SmackDown star and a former WWE United States champion Baron Corbin aka Happy Corbin who is the winner of WWE King of the Ring 2019 recently talked about his former Tag Team partner Madcap Moss and discussed his success in WWE. Moss had been active under his Madcap gimmick in WWE since last year.
He was previously known as Riddick Moss and he worked in WWE under this ring name for over 6 years. In this time of his career, he had been mostly treated as a lower mid card. He won the WWE 24/7 Championship one time as Riddick Moss. In 2020 he was sidelined from action by a torn ACL injury.
Happy Corbin Talks About The Success Of Madcap Moss In WWE
In 2021 he returned to WWE under a new gimmick. In this period of his career he had been renamed as Madcap Moss and he teamed up with Happy Corbin. It never looked like he would be pushed as a big star from this position of his career, especially after the way he jobbed to Drew McIntyre, it was quite obvious that he is here just to be a lower mid card or a jobber.
But WWE started to push him from the week before WrestleMania 38 as he won the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal at first and after that he got involved in a feud with Happy Corbin where not only Moss defeated Corbin but completely humiliated him. It looks like WWE has big plans for Moss for the future.
Baron Corbin aka Happy Corbin who is the winner of WWE King of the Ring 2019 recently spoke to Out of Character with Ryan Satin where he talked about his former Tag Team partner Madcap Moss and discussed his success in WWE. Moss had been active under his Madcap gimmick in WWE since last year. He said;
“You look at what Madcap did in his first little time up, and he was just on Raw Underground. I mean, no offense to him, but it just wasn’t memorable.”
“Then when he came out as Madcap with the suspenders and this new life. It was memorable and it annoyed people to no end. It was amazing. We got to a position where our friendship came to an end, we came to blows, and I think he’s evolved his character again and it’s been really good for him.”
“I think having somebody that so many people hate, like me, work with him, it really gave him an opportunity to find success when he switched sides, when he’s gone to this good guy role as the babyface. I think it gives him a leg up on other people that just come in and like, ‘Hey, cheer for me’ versus it was funny.”
“He was working a match with somebody else and the reactions were just kind of like, eh. It was like his second or third week as a babyface and they just weren’t there. But I was part of that segment. When I came out, the whole energy of the whole arena had changed.
“They’re like, ‘Oh no. We hate this dude so we are going with Madcap.’ That, to me, was a big tribute to my efforts as a heel because I heard the reactions, I heard the energy, and felt the energy change to a different level. I’m going, ‘This is cool.’ Nobody can tell me I’m not good at my job when I can take someone who is evolving and on the rise and bring them up.”
“I mean, if you saw the Hell in the Cell match, that crowd was unbelievable. I mean, they were calling me an a-hole repeatedly, chanting -a-hole. Every time he hit me with the chair, they were chanting ‘One more time.’ They were in it. I think outside of Cody and Seth, I think we had the best match on that show, and I’ll say that all day long.”
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