Baron Corbin On Why His Storyline With JBL Failed

Since joining the WWE main roster years ago Baron Corbin has undergone several gimmick changes, and last year WWE tried something new when they paired him with JBL. Unfortunately for JBL and Corbin the alliance didn’t last long as it seemingly wasn’t working so WWE decided to pull the plug.

During a recent appearance on the After The Bell podcast Baron Corbin opened up about what went wrong with the JBL storyline and he noted that there were a few things that worked against his alliance with the Hall of Famer.

“There was a sense of panic there for me because everything I had done up until then had worked. I had made things work. But I had one promo in my career, where I was in the ring, in the middle of it. And I was going [in my head] ‘There is nothing that is going to make this good. We are not saving this.’ It was a segment with multiple people.

“I felt the crowd going ‘Dude, this is not good.’ And you feel it in your gut. When we got to the end of the JBL stuff, we were trying to make it work, but I just think there were a few things that went against us. Opportunity and timing and a few other things. And you could feel it.

“I felt like I was in a movie, stuck out in the ocean and waiting to get eaten by sharks. I was drowning, in a sense. And that’s when we had the conversation. ‘Okay, what do we do?’”

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