Baron Corbin has recently made his return to the NXT and he is doing a pretty good job since returning to the development territory of the promotion. Previously he was struggling on the main roster pretty badly and he was forced to be a jobber who was losing his matches almost every week.
He returned to the NXT using his previous Loan Wolf gimmick which has been pretty well received by the WWE NXT fans. There are even beliefs that he would soon win championships in the NXT. Recently while speaking on WWE‘s After The Bell podcast, he explained why it was difficult to portray different characters, here is what he had to say;
Baron Corbin Shares His Experience: The Challenges of Switching Wrestling Characters
On taking risks as a performer: “There’s always that fear with everything you do. I mean, with what I’m doing now, I’ve abandoned everything. I’m burning the past, burning the ships. Graves, you talked about it. You gave me this line and this mindset of ‘burn the ships’ and explained to me what it meant.
This is hats off to you because you brought this to me and said it pertained to where I was at because we had conversations that were very real, not a part of this wrestling world, but very real as friends, as to ‘What’s next, what am I doing?’”
Baron Corbin Is Currently Active On NXT
On the importance of confidence in his role: “[Confidence] is everything. We are an entertainment company and our job is to portray characters that are sometimes not necessarily ours. Happy Corbin, Constable Corbin, you took me from a motorcycle bada** to a corporate a**hole.
“I had to switch modes. And you have to find that in you and you have to make it believable. The talented ones can do that. That’s why I think I did a good job with those. I made those characters believable. I made what I did in the ring and backstage and during my entrance believable. People bought in. They hated me for it.”
On making the character switches feel authentic: “So you have to have confidence no matter what you’re doing. When you get to do it when it’s kind of coming out of your brain and you’re working with somebody, and you’re sitting down in a room. Again, instead of just being handed a piece of paper saying, ‘Here’s what we’re going to say today,’ it’s ‘What do you want to say? What do you feel? Why do you want to say that?’ And you put it in your own words and it draws that true emotion from the gut. You’re no longer acting. You’re out there being as real as it is.
“I think anybody who’s had the success that I’ve had, or the success of a professional athlete, or a WWE superstar already has that confidence, that swagger to walk out. It’s taking all of the things you’re tasked to do and making that believable. But when you’re making your own stuff, you don’t have to make it believable because it’s as raw as it can be. It is true emotion.”
Baron Corbin has played different characters throughout his WWE career and one of his most famous characters was the Sad Corbin gimmick which he played during 2021 for a short amount of time. In spite of being extremely famous among the fans, WWE decided to take it off and somehow he lost his fame after losing this character.
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