Baron Corbin: Struggling As An Independent Wrestler Isn't Something To Brag About

Kidd Dibiase

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"[Gargano has] done some great things for somebody that nobody expected anything from. A lot of these guys, it’s a bragging right. Ten years, I’ve been wrestling for 15 years. Why is that a bragging right? I made a phone call, and the WWE brought me in for a tryout and signed me within the week. That’s how it works. I don’t need to go work for a hot dog and popcorn in your local gymnasium. That’s not what I do. It’s not a bragging right for me to go, ‘Ah, I drove around in my buddy’s Honda Civic for six hours to go to this show and then drive 12 hours to this show and the car broke down and we ran out of gas, and we didn’t money to eat. That’s not something you brag about,"

"These guys come in and that’s part of their story. They’re giving hope to hope to people who sit in the audience and go, ‘Ah, I wanna be Johnny Gargano.’ How many little kids see that? Because they have no hope, they have no goals, they have no dreams, and they wanna see a guy like that and they go, ‘Oh, man, if this little guy or Kevin Owens, this guy, I relate to him. We’re similar, we do the same things, we like the same things. I can become a WWE Superstar.’ No, you can’t. Look, this job is not for everybody. My mailman is a nice guy. This job is not for him. This is for elite level athletes, world renowned competitors, and guys when you walk into a room, they look at somebody like me and they go, ‘That guy is somebody.’ If they’ve never watched WWE before, they go, man, look at that watch, look at the diamonds that he’s wearing, look at that suit. That guy is somebody important, whether they’ve seen me or not. You walk into a room with Johnny, with Kevin, with AJ Styles, and you’re just like, oh man, there’s some people in the room hanging out. I saw 500 guys like that at the mall today. There’s a difference,"
 

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Only thing real is the money and the miles don't get mad at The Baron

He's 100% right no kid has ever wanted to be Gargano. Gargano looks like it pains him to be Gargano. Kevin and AJ have never not looked like NPCs
I mean in Johnny’s defense, nobody is saying I wanna be Baron Corbin either


But there are kids out there who want to do exactly what Baron and Johnny do, which is get paid to travel the world wrestling…


Both ended up in the same destination regardless of what route they took. But.. with that said, this is still very obviously in-character.
 

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People relate more with the people who struggled to get into wrestling through the indies vs the people who got everything handed to them based on looks/clout

Idk this might be a work but I still feel like this mentality is prevalent among the industry
 

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People relate more with the people who struggled to get into wrestling through the indies vs the people who got everything handed to them based on looks/clout

Idk this might be a work but I still feel like this mentality is prevalent among the industry
He’s working imo but he is speaking about those nose up in the air and im better than you because i struggled wrestlers.

Both ended up in the same place just a different journey
 

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He ain't wrong about the whole struggling thing though. I used to work in a field where people would be regularly working 60 hours a week for pennies and people would be talking about their # of hours worked like it was a badge of honor. I was just thinking the whole time "the fukk is wrong with you?"

Unfortunately the vast majority of human beings in any industry don't just get to go straight to the major leagues of their industry with zero experience though. So it's something to be proud of to work your way up from a nobody to a somebody. It's a story as old as time that people can get behind.
 
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