10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2018
5. Constable Corbin
Where Mr. McMahon once concocted hugely intricate schemes to fool Steve Austin, who responded by beating the sh*t out of him, RAW's new resident authority figure, Baron Corbin, just applies rest hold after rest hold after rest hold after rest hold after rest hold after rest hold to Finn Bálor, who responds by...
...carrying out Corbin's orders, and politely asking The Shield to not do bad things with weapons, weapons with, incidentally, the dangerous bits removed.
This ongoing nightmare - not strictly true, since nightmares actually elicit an emotion - is WWE's contempt for its audience, manifested. Really, Corbin does nothing beyond dare its audience to stop watching. Here we have a truly loathsome figure, all withering words and motherf*cking rest holds, that we hate to hate. Corbin is not remotely entertaining, or engaging, and in his "Constable" role, he dominates almost an entire third of every interminable three-hour episode of RAW. We should rechristen 'X-Pac heat' 'Corbin heat'. Anything less is an insult. Corbin's presence renders RAW such a painful experience.
It is such derivative, unimaginative, diminishing TV. McMahon was funny, clever, credible. Corbin is a character, and a sh*tty one, who witlessly buries everybody and just changes the rules mid-match, filling gaping plot holes with pure despair. Why doesn't he put himself in a Universal Title match every week?
More pertinently: Why doesn't he just f*ck off?