7 Feuds Key To Baron Corbin's Success In WWE

7. Kalisto

While working in NXT, Baron Corbin regularly competed against smaller Superstars. Finn Balor, Hideo Itami, Austin Aries...all celebrated workers who gave up considerable size to the former NFL offensive lineman. Whereas a lesser-skilled competitor would struggle to perfect the "big vs. little" formula, Corbin thrived in it. His best performances came against smaller stars that would bump for him and whose offense he could sell spectacularly when the time called for it.

Current United States champion Kalisto has struggled to find a following as a singles competitor, thanks in large part to inconsistent booking. Not only could he garner sympathy working with a vile, villainous bully like Corbin, but both could see their stars rise with solid performances.

Corbin is a much better worker at this point in his career than most young big men ever were. Letting him demonstrate his ability to sell for a smaller star would do for him what it did for Brock Lesnar during his underrated bouts against Rey Mysterio: prove that he is anything but a one-dimensional professional wrestler.