Baron Corbin Was Unhappy With WWE Writer After Jacob Fatu Pitch
Baron Corbin reveals his anger after an exchange with WWE writer
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Jan 26, 2025
The newly christened Bishop Dyer, formerly known as Baron Corbin (and recently also formerly known under his real name of Tom Pestock) has been getting used to life outside of WWE, competing at GCW’s The People vs. GCW event earlier this month at the Hammerstein Ballroom to kick off his independent run.
Corbin’s final months on the Friday Night SmackDown brand were tough for the former United States Champion, as he was seldom used and found it hard to procure any momentum. Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Corbin revealed the anger he had with a WWE writer after discussing a creative pitch involving Jacob Fatu.
"I almost lost it one time. I was so angry, and I don't get angry that easy over stuff like this. I try not to let people control my emotions. I was sitting with the head writer of SmackDown, and it still makes my blood boil because it doesn't pertain just to me, but I was like, 'Do we have any ideas? What are you thinking creatively?' He's like, 'We have Jacob [Fatu] up and running. We're going to need bodies for him.' We're not bodies. Nobody on this roster is just a body. That was so frustrating to hear. It doesn't pertain to me, but this is what you think of? I've been here 12 years and I'm a body for somebody else? If you want to say something like that, go, 'We think you'd be great to help build Jacob. You'd make him look like a monster.' Let's go.
"'We're going to need bodies.' He's referring to the bottom half of our roster. It's so disrespectful to say that about people who go out there and put their life on the line every night. Careers can be ended in an instant. Look at Big E. One suplex wrong and he may never wrestle again. It can end like that. You can end up a quadriplegic; all of these things can happen. It's your livelihood and how you put food on the table.”
He noted that the writer said he didn’t think about the way he worded it after being confronted by Corbin. It was reported recently that NJPW had interest in signing the Corbin following his WWE exit.
H/T Fightful
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