7 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Baron Corbin

7. He Was A Harley Race Fan As Kid

When professional wrestlers talk about their influences growing up, all members of a certain generation tend to doff their cap in the direction of the King himself, Harley Race. Considered the toughest of the tough, Race's influence on modern professional wrestling is clear for all to see.

Baron Corbin was born at the beginning of the 1980s and grew up in Kansas, where Harley Race was king at the time. Corbin has fondly spoke of times as a child where he would go to Memorial Hall in Kansas City with his father to attend NWA shows there. 

Thursday night wrestling was something of a weekly tradition at Memorial Hall, and it was here that Corbin was first introduced to the glory of professional wrestling. Stars such as Race, Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Kamala and more would come through, some of the biggest names of the 1980s. 

The Memorial Hall is famous for being the venue in which both Harley Race (1973) and Ric Flair (1981) won their first NWA Championships.