Baron Corbin is known to be one of the most hated heels in recent years, but sometimes things have definitely gone off the rails, as he recalled during an appearance on the Out Of Character with Ryan Satin podcast.
The former King Of The Ring winner said he got death threats following a spot in which he hit Becky Lynch with the End Of Days at Extreme Rules in 2019: “When I hit Becky with the End of Days, I was getting death threats, on a regular basis. 95% of [critics] are on the internet or safely behind somewhere they can’t be accessed. Roman said it the best one time, that he’s never met a hater in real life. That’s the same kind of thing with me. It would be funny if at the airport, all the guys hanging there for autographs were like open your Twitter and let me see if you’re blocked or not to decide if you can get an autograph. It’s funny, it’s the cool thing to do now in life, people just want to drag people down, it makes them feel good but my whole career has been that way with social media but now it’s 10x with the way the world is. You got to have thick skin man.”
Corbin said that for him, the opinion of veterans and legends is way more important, and he made the example of The Rock praising him: “It’s funny because you have Hall of Famers or The Rock that puts me over on social media and it’s like okay, the 200,000 people that are like ‘you’re the worst person in the entire world,’ they know more than The Rock. The people I look up to, when they are like you’re doing a good job or pull you aside. I’ll never forget Matt Hardy one time pulled me aside on a Europe tour and said ‘I just want to say thank you. I don’t think people appreciate what you do.’ Seth Rollins has done the same thing and told me ‘you work really hard to be a bad guy and it makes my job easier.’ When you get that appreciation, especially from guys that you’re working with on a daily basis, that’s the adulation, the gratitude that I appreciate. All the other stuff is just noise.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
