10 Wrestlers Who Got Pissed Off At Critics

4. King Corbin

King Corbin
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King Corbin is effective in an ineffective role.

He is irritating, and has a certain presence and delivery with which he can generate that sort of detached, droning heat of which WWE is beloved. But any reading of objective ratings data, irrespective of whether it validates an opinion, heavily indicates that his oppressive, deliberate style is counterproductive to the goal. WWE even acknowledged this in 2018, before simply pushing him again, twice, in main event positions.

Corbin generates go-away heat, and Corbin wrestles, staunchly, in a certain mode. He is unspectacular and methodical which, depending on your perspective, is how a heel should work or is "unbelievably f*cking tedious, passé, and ineffective to the aim of getting people to audibly give a sh*t".

After a spat on Twitter - Corbin buried an AEW match using the dreaded Rip Rogers lexicon, in response to which Dave Meltzer pointed out the similarities between the AEW and WWE NXT in-house tag team styles - Corbin took to Instagram to reveal who was really the heel in this feud.

"People need to realize he is a cancer to the entire wrestling industry," Corbin said, conflating a disease that ravages millions of grieving families every damn year to a critic who doesn't rate that which he is paid a fortune to do.

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