7 Feuds Key To Baron Corbin's Success In WWE

3. The Undertaker

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Early in his career, Undertaker got over with the WWE audience based solely on the presence that he carried with him to the squared circle. It damn sure was not because he was a great worker. There was an air about him, a mystique. He carried himself like a star so fans believed that he was one.

Corbin is the same way. There is nothing about him that evokes memories of larger-than-life characters like Hulk Hogan or The Ultimate Warrior. Instead, when he steps through the curtain and that spotlight drowns him, he looks like a badass motherf***r and thus, fans treat him like one. Even when he was his greenest, completely inexperienced and searching for the character that would eventually launch him to stardom in NXT, he always presented himself as a somebody.

Now imagine a feud between two guys who look fairly similar, down to the tattoos and long, thinning hair, that both present themselves as legitimate badasses. The face-to-face confrontations alone would generate buzz, if only because there is that credibility, at least in the minds of fans. The match would almost become secondary. Like two unflinching bikers in a bar fight, the exchange of glares, minimal use of words and general awesomeness would surely trump the actual in-ring battle.

And that would not be a bad thing. Should Corbin get to that level, the last thing he would be worried about is whether or not the match quality lived up to the hype. Working The Undertaker means you're a made man and thus, his success would reach its peak.

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