10 Worst WWE Wrestlers Of 2019
2. Baron Corbin
Baron Corbin was pretty bloody good for a few weeks there.
As the uncrowned King Of The Ring, Corbin substituted rest-holds for skull-crushing in lively, vicious performances removed from his dull work as an aspirational headliner. In his series with Seth Rollins, he only deviated from his meh TV routine to constantly berate the referee before selecting his own, Lacey Evans, at Stomping Grounds, in a match that was inspired by Over The Edge 1998 in much the same way as Creed were inspired by Pearl Jam. Corbin screamed into a void for heat like an awkward hanger-on attempting to join a conversation with a brave "Sorry, what was that? What were we talking about?"
Sadly, it seems now as though Corbin benefitted from two safeguards: the protective action-blur Triple Threat format, and the carry-job of super worker Chad Gable, whose exquisite tree surgeon work could probably result in a ***3/4 Great Khali match. Corbin is far better than that, but f*ck, he has no business headlining pay-per-views. He is a Vince McMahon fetish mandated to haunt the flagship forever with smug facials and toxic echoes of "You're supposed to hate him..." spewed out by the remaining few that can bother themselves to patronise you, from a wildly uninformed position, about an industry that might just be dying.
Because of turn-off bullsh*t like this endless push.