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Post by Vincent Whiney on Nov 17, 2022 15:36:13 GMT -5
Maybe next they can give him a motorcycle and dust off American Bad Ass
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2022 17:08:31 GMT -5
There are a lot of issues with it but I think the biggest one is just that this is like Corbin's fifth or sixth major reinvention in the past five years or so. It's hard to bother being invested in him or take him seriously as a main event player when nothing about the guy ever sticks before they inevitably end up jobbing him out then rebooting him, especially since they won't ever try anything notably different like turning him face or putting him in a tag team or something. God forbid he turn babyface on the main roster.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Nov 20, 2022 12:57:12 GMT -5
So far its failing. As soon as JBL music stops and he comes out the crowd goes dead and having JBL on my TV ever week is not a want either. I agree its hard to invest in a guy who constantly getting reinvention pushes and jobbed out. He almost a lost cause to being a ME guy. I get he is a very save worker and ext but I never got into him.
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Post by CMWaters on Nov 21, 2022 23:16:45 GMT -5
I mentioned this idea in the Raw thread since someone suggested this guy get involved:
As a face turn for Corbin, would people here be cool with Corbin dumping JBL to be tag partners with Cameron Grimes, in an "passing on old money for new money" kind of situation?
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Nov 21, 2022 23:48:49 GMT -5
It needs jbl coming out to larger and larger suits to the point they just become inflatable
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Post by Mozenrath on Nov 25, 2022 1:17:03 GMT -5
JBL managing someone could work, but this isn't working. Corbin really would benefit from a face turn. Even if it didn't last, it'd be something new. Have JBL screw him and just manage some other rando.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Nov 25, 2022 1:24:06 GMT -5
I wanted it dead until they started doing the poker bits literally having them positioned like cool dogs in a painting.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Nov 25, 2022 2:45:00 GMT -5
They had something with Broke Baron Corbin, genuinely had something, and they cut it off way too soon. That should have went on, getting progressively worse, for months. It was just something that was a tremendous idea for a slow burn, and Corbin knew exactly how to play the most unsympathetic poor man ever
This is dogshit, JBL is dogshit, and Corbin isn't benefitting from this at all. As has been said, they've reinvented him so much it feels like a waste. They've had decent ideas with the dude like above, but they don't commit
And friendly reminder, they threw this dude under the bus, publicly, for ratings dipping a few years ago, and their response afterwards was to... constantly have him on TV anyway, and constantly reinventing his gimmick.
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Post by mc74 on Nov 25, 2022 9:08:53 GMT -5
For starters, it's hard to take Corbin seriously anymore when his gimmick has changed almost every year. He's went from the Lone Wolf --> Constable Corbin --> King Corbin --> Bumass Baron --> Happy Corbin --> Being repackaged again with JBL as his manager.
They should've just had him go back to being the Lone Wolf instead of this clusterf***.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Nov 25, 2022 9:26:22 GMT -5
They had something with Broke Baron Corbin, genuinely had something, and they cut it off way too soon. That should have went on, getting progressively worse, for months. It was just something that was a tremendous idea for a slow burn, and Corbin knew exactly how to play the most unsympathetic poor man ever Broke Corbin is literally the only time I've found the dude even somewhat interesting.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Nov 25, 2022 9:31:31 GMT -5
They had something with Broke Baron Corbin, genuinely had something, and they cut it off way too soon. That should have went on, getting progressively worse, for months. It was just something that was a tremendous idea for a slow burn, and Corbin knew exactly how to play the most unsympathetic poor man ever Broke Corbin is literally the only time I've found the dude even somewhat interesting. For real. And it gave the dude the chance to actually show he's a pretty damn good actor. Too bad he's just boring otherwise so it never matters.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 4, 2022 5:06:43 GMT -5
They had something with Broke Baron Corbin, genuinely had something, and they cut it off way too soon. That should have went on, getting progressively worse, for months. It was just something that was a tremendous idea for a slow burn, and Corbin knew exactly how to play the most unsympathetic poor man ever Broke Corbin is literally the only time I've found the dude even somewhat interesting. I kind of enjoyed his NXT "I have never heard of these people" indies antagonism, like that was sometimes legitimately funny and so utterly dickish. Perfect foil for Samoa Joe and some others at that time. He really could stand to have a face run for a bit. Even if it was just a few months, it'd reset the clock on him a bit by virtue of it being different.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Dec 4, 2022 9:35:54 GMT -5
Broke Corbin is literally the only time I've found the dude even somewhat interesting. For real. And it gave the dude the chance to actually show he's a pretty damn good actor. Too bad he's just boring otherwise so it never matters. Like for real it's an easy story where you shit on the guy for a bit because he was a heel but then you have a point where it goes too far and you feel bad for him and you run him as a babyface needing a big win to get his life back to level. Maybe later you turn him back heel cause he didn't learn a lesson but still it didn't reach its natural level
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Dec 4, 2022 10:59:46 GMT -5
This whole pairing just feels like it's about 4 years too late IMO.
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