10 Wrestlers Who Should Never Turn Face

by John Bills

1. Baron Corbin

King Baron Corbin
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Hard to believe, but Baron Corbin was quite popular in his early NXT days. He even garnered a sizeable amount of support from women in the NXT Arena, attracted as they were to his brooding charm and sizzling charisma. Yes, all of those words are true. Corbin came in, beat his opponents in seconds, and left. It was all sorts of fun at the time, but it couldn’t last forever.

Fast forward nearly six years and the thought of Baron Corbin as anything approaching a babyface is enough to produce stifled laughter and uproarious guffaws. Baron Corbin? Babyface? Get out of town, not going to happen, impossible. Corbin has spent his entire main roster career doing all he can to annoy fans and critics alike and has succeeded in doing so.

The problem is that he has succeeded to the point where a future babyface turn is doomed from the start, from long before the start. Corbin isn’t dynamic enough in the ring and isn’t charismatic enough on the microphone. He doesn’t even have his brooding sizzle anymore. The Baron-turned-Constable-turned-King is too far down the villainous rabbit hole to ever be saved.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.