10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WWE Yet

10. Baron Corbin Is A Megastar In Paris

Paul Heyman is credited with the definitive take on what it is to be a wrestling fan, or more specifically, how you can't really convert somebody who doesn't get it.

Paraphrasing, but the gist is roughly that "for those that get it, no argument is necessary. For those that don't, none will do". It's valuable insight, and can be applied to footage of Baron Corbin working a France house show in mid-2023.

Corbin's a divisive sort on home soil. Initially the antithetical NXT call-up in 2016 for how unbothered he was by in-ring classics or gaining a reputation for them, he's been an excellent instruction-follower over the years despite half of those instructions actively harming any relationship he'd worked to create with crowds. Constable Corbin - an authority figure bit he did for a while in 2018 - was actively blamed for the show's ratings sinking in real life, and some of his best work as a down-on-his-luck struggling tweener was brushed away by a one-note "Happy" reinvention in 2021.

All of this matters not to those that viewed him as the second coming of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin in Paris. He snapped a losing streak in front of a buzzing audience, and enjoyed a rare moment of mutual adoration with the crowd after the fact.

WWE is so rarely just nice. This was nice!