bob
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Post by bob on Feb 7, 2023 11:40:21 GMT -5
Corbin has talent.... but he hasn't been interesting except when he was broke as all hell
here's hoping this is where he goes
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 8, 2023 2:03:28 GMT -5
"Yes, he sucks, and we, too, hate him. Now get ready to see him EVEN MORE!" When you tell an audience that one man is responsible for all that's wrong with your program, you normally get that guy off your television. are you sure you shouldn't push him twice as hard... cause that sounds like a sound strategy to me... Seriously though they don't know what the hell to do with Corbin and never really have... he's not completely useless but I don't think he's nearly as good as how hard they've been pushing him for like 10 years... (alright probably closer to 7.) They've given him several complete revamps, a ton of big achievements outside of the actual World Title and save for a few bits and pieces ... the crowd really don't care about him? Granted his feud with Madcap got Madcap way over... (which of course led to ... Corbin still being on TV and Moss being MIA despite winning the feud and being over ) so the crowd at least disliked him enough to get some shine on Moss... but ... that's one time out of countless others. edit: Also I just saw a photo from his main roster debut and yikes his hair was even worse than I remember... |
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Post by …Yeah! on Feb 8, 2023 2:26:01 GMT -5
This is going to be one of those things when it's mentioned in 5 years you're going to be like oh yeah, that happened. The pairing didn't look good on paper to begin with, they limped along for a couple months doing nothing of note and it was mercifully abandoned. Joining such luminaries as Rob Van Dam w/ Ricardo Rodriguez and Alberto Del Rio w/ Zeb Colter. What makes those pairings even stranger is that they happened within like a year or two of each other. |
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knightboat
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Post by knightboat on Feb 8, 2023 3:50:16 GMT -5
Put him in a sombrero
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Post by Slammy Award-Winning Cannibal on Feb 8, 2023 4:51:43 GMT -5
The problem with Corbin is they keep pushing him like a threat. But he doesn’t look like a threat whatsoever. Look at the frame of his body. There’s no shape whatsoever. It kinda reminds me of Eddie Dennis. This tall skinny guy that tries to seem menacing but it just comes off like a joke?
I’ve given this a ton of thought and I really like the solution is pairing him with Gargano in the old Austin Theory role. The tough guy idiot. He won’t play it as good as Theory but I’ll at least watch him and be entertained by him. He just needs to be a piece of a faction and ideally the comic relief.
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Feb 8, 2023 16:37:38 GMT -5
Corbin is so weird to me, in that I'm baffled by how he's perceived by the company. He's been around ten years, clearly someone sees SOMETHING in him, but the only time he's truly gotten over is in the "bum" role, which was taken away from him with no real growth or progression. Since then it's just been a parade of bad choices. Something's clearly not clicking, but they won't cut bait on the guy.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Feb 8, 2023 18:42:10 GMT -5
They're still trying to make Baron Corbin happen?
Baron Corbin's never gonna happen, guys.
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CMWaters
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Post by CMWaters on Feb 8, 2023 21:06:30 GMT -5
They're still trying to make Baron Corbin happen? Baron Corbin's never gonna happen, guys. Even if they send him down to re-learn with Chase U? |
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Feb 8, 2023 21:32:54 GMT -5
He needs Bob Backlund as his manager to make Baron Corbin great again!
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Post by ChitownKnight on Feb 8, 2023 21:44:57 GMT -5
They're still trying to make Baron Corbin happen? Baron Corbin's never gonna happen, guys. Same thing was probably said about Roman in 2017. Baron has talent, they just need to utilize him right. If miz could have a couple face runs, why not Corbin? |
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mc74
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Post by mc74 on Feb 9, 2023 3:04:01 GMT -5
I mean, the fact that most of us are like “Can we try him as a face? Or with this other gimmick?” tells me that he’s not COMPLETELY useless, that he’s got SOMETHING there in him that he’s shown at some point that people want to see more of. That's the thing: There's is a segment of fans who *want* to invest in the guy. Just turn the guy face and see what he can do. It's not like it can damage his credibility any more than it is Turn him face, have him go back to being the lone wolf Baron Corbin. Enough with the silly reboots, guy's been through so many of them that any little remaining credibility has been flushed down the toilet. You can't expect fans to take him seriously when you keep switching his gimmick all the time. |
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Feb 10, 2023 3:43:53 GMT -5
Baron Corbin in several weeks.   |
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 10, 2023 4:33:36 GMT -5
What I'd probably do at this point is just return to him being depressed since that still had life in it and then after milking that for awhile follow through on the logical throughline from it and have him actually grow from the experience and turn face. Having him hit rock bottom just so he could return to being exactly the same as he always was except with Madcap Moss standing next to him cracking bad jokes was astoundingly bad writing.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 10, 2023 5:02:27 GMT -5
What I'd probably do at this point is just return to him being depressed since that still had life in it and then after milking that for awhile follow through on the logical throughline from it and have him actually grow from the experience and turn face. Having him hit rock bottom just so he could return to being exactly the same as he always was except with Madcap Moss standing next to him cracking bad jokes was astoundingly bad writing. I mean not really? Cause that's a pretty realistic take on things. He was insufferable when he had money and instead of some big epiphany all he really learned was "it sucks to be poor, good thing I'm not anymore" |
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 10, 2023 5:06:11 GMT -5
What I'd probably do at this point is just return to him being depressed since that still had life in it and then after milking that for awhile follow through on the logical throughline from it and have him actually grow from the experience and turn face. Having him hit rock bottom just so he could return to being exactly the same as he always was except with Madcap Moss standing next to him cracking bad jokes was astoundingly bad writing. I mean not really? Cause that's a pretty realistic take on things. He was insufferable when he had money and instead of some big epiphany all he really learned was "it sucks to be poor, good thing I'm not anymore" I guess but narratively it just feels like a complete copout. It makes sense but it does essentially just mean you spent several months tearing down his character just to reconstruct it into exactly what it was before, it's like bad sitcom writing rather than something you should be seeing in a continuous narrative unless there's some kind of broader longterm point to it which there wasn't. |
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Post by lmagicdancer1 on Feb 11, 2023 9:33:50 GMT -5
The only time I found Baron interesting was when Kevin Owens gave him money and defended him. This could have been the start of some kind of redemption arc, even a failed one and they squandered it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2023 0:20:59 GMT -5
So, I really don't get WWE's usage of him. Like, they know people hate him, but it's the "we don't want him on TV" hatred. Yet they keep him on TV... by telling the audience that he should not be on TV.
And tonight I get that this was more about setting up Cody, but I'm really hoping they're setting up a long-term absence for Corbin instead of just slotting him as a punchline weekly.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Feb 14, 2023 4:19:49 GMT -5
Did somebody say new career record losing streak?
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 15, 2023 1:08:08 GMT -5
I loved how they phrased Corbin's interview cut off as "something important is going on in the ring." Just complete savagery.
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Post by mc74 on Feb 15, 2023 2:17:06 GMT -5
Did somebody say new career record losing streak? I was thinking something more dreary to represent Corbin. Something similar to the mood "Undashing" Cody Rhodes' theme gave off.
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