10 Potential Megastars That Never Recovered From WWE Burials
4. Baron Corbin
A plot still seems to be thickening as discussion of Baron Corbin's recent de-push rumbles on, with various stories emerging that it was less about his inadvertent abuse of a military man on Twitter, and far more to do with a categoric conclusion drawn between John Cena and Vince McMahon that 'The Lone Wolf' just didn't have 'it'.
Considering that he's only been wrestling five years, that's hardly all that surprising. It can take double that for a performer to even reach WWE let alone thrive in the complex environment, and even then, a future star's credibility with an audience can be smashed within a matter of seconds. For Corbin, it took just six.
The first three came as he lost his Money In The Bank briefcase thanks to an over-zealous cash-in attempt on Jinder Mahal just days before his SummerSlam match with John Cena. The three seconds he took to stare at the lights in that match must have felt longer than then years he'd spent training just to get to that point.
'The Champ' eviscerated Corbin in a reductive display of peacocking ill-befitting of an experienced professional an in industry that fundamentally requires robust cooperation regardless of the ingrained individualism. D*cking about in JBL's cowboy hat at ringside then repurposing a 'Where's Your Briefcase?' heckle for Baron into a 'Let's Go Cena/Cena Sucks' chant just for himself, 'Big Match John' was instead a Big Time Charlie. Less a brightly burning starlet, Corbin was cruelly incinerated in the spotlight.