Baron Corbin has been on the WWE roster for some time now and throughout the course of his run with the company he’s worked with some of the biggest names in the business. Back in 2017, Baron Corbin faced off against John Cena in a singles match which opened the SummerSlam premium live event.
Recently on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Baron Corbin recalled discussing the match with John Cena backstage, and he made it clear that Cena was more than willing to honor some of his requests for the match.
“I mean, when I worked with John Cena at SummerSlam. He said, What do you want to do? And I said, Well, I can tell you the one thing I don’t want to do. I don’t want to kick out of your finish and I really would appreciate it if you wouldn’t kick out of mine. He said done. And I said then let’s have an awesome opening show match. He’s like, can we keep it all in the ring and I said absolutely.
And then we did and I take a tonne of pride in that match because I liked the old-school mentality of building the card. And that night we built the card like we kept it in the ring. We didn’t kick out of finishes, we put on one heck of a match that was on first.”
Baron Corbin didn’t end up defeating John Cena at SummerSlam, but he did go on to retire Kurt Angle at WrestleMania a few years later. Following the 2023 WWE Draft, Baron Corbin is a free agent and in recent months he’s been working in NXT.
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