WWE: Baron Corbin on “Zero Ego” Approach to Taking Any Role WWE Offered Him, Booker T on WWE Debuting New Women’s United States Title, Rob Van Dam

Baron Corbin Comments on His “Zero Ego” Approach to Taking Any Role WWE Offered Him

Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI held a recent interview with former WWE talent Baron Corbin. One of the topics discussed included Corbin’s thoughts about his “Bum Ass Corbin” character in WWE and his “zero ego” approach he had when it came to taking any role WWE had offered him during his time in the company.

“I think that the sad Corbin, it was just supposed to be like a two-week thing. I think that was originally the plan. Let’s get you upset and then get you back. Then I grabbed onto it. I was like, this is so different. This is so fun. I can show my range. I have no ego, zero ego. So something like that is not going to… There are some people in our world that would be like, ‘You want me to look like a bum? I’m a WWE superstar.’ I have no ego. You want me to do that? Hell, yeah, let’s go. This is going to be fun. Let’s turn it up to twelve. That’s something I’ve always learned from seeing it. How do you take what they give you and turn it into gold? It’s a lot of work. I mean, you have to fully commit. There’s times I have to sit in the back and take 20 or 30 minutes of getting my head in the space of going out there and just being disheveled in a total disaster. I would walk to the ring and people are legit trying to hand me $20 bills. I had a lady in Houston. I was leaving the building in Houston. A woman shoved money in the window, and I was like, I don’t need your money. Jacob, he’s one of the Fox execs. He sent me a message that his daughter wanted to give me her allowance because she felt so bad for me. I was all in on that.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Booker T Comments on WWE Recently Debuting New WWE Women’s United States Title

A recent episode of the Hall of Fame with Booker T & Brad Gilmore podcast featured WWE Hall of Famer and co-host Booker T giving his thoughts about WWE recently debuting a new WWE Women’s United States Championship belt for their Women’s division.

“It’s needed. Just because you give the show just that different, extra layer. The thing is, it gives the women something to actually compete for. It shows how you can move up the ladder, as opposed to you got two tiers, and that’s it. I just think opening that up just a little bit more, I think it makes a whole lot more sense for the business more than anything. One thing about this business, you’re always fighting for championships. You want to win a championship, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be the world title when you first win the championship. You are just happy when you win that first one. Like for me, the Television Championship. I was like, ‘Man, I’m in. I’m doing something right.’ That’s what it told me. Even though it was the title at the lowest tier, so to speak, it let me know that I was in the game, and I think these girls need that as well to make them feel like, ‘Man, I’m moving up.’”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Rob Van Dam Comments on Feeling Disappointed Over His Induction Into the WWE Hall of Fame Taking Place During the Pandemic Era

A recent episode of the This Is Wrestling Life podcast featured ECW legend and WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam as the guest. One of the topics discussed included RVD’s thoughts about his induction into WWE’s Hall of Fame being an honor for him but also felt a little disappointed over it taking place during the pandemic era due to the lack of a crowd for it.

“It was very validating, you know, to be thought of on that Mount Rushmore of wrestlers. That’s something that they can never take away from me now. Like, it felt like I elevated up to a level and now people like yourself refer to me as a Hall of Famer. It’s very prestigious, so I was honored. The fact that it was during COVID and we didn’t have a crowd was kind of disappointing after going to Hall of Fame for so many years and watching the really long speeches. And then they told us to go 3-5 minutes on our speeches after hearing these guys [doing long speeches in the past].

The thing about the time and there not being people there, if you’ve seen my speech, then you’ve seen like nine minutes of it, but the whole thing was actually 27 minutes. So I actually went, in theory, maybe like 24 minutes over the three-minute request. I didn’t hear anything when I got back except I said, ‘That was a little long, wasn’t it?’ But I had no idea until I saw the whole thing that it was that long. You’re playing off of somebody turning the volume up and down on a response… I’ll have to get in it again.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com