Baron Corbin sent someone to the hospital when they tried to shoot on him.
WWE star Baron Corbin is a former Golden Gloves boxer. He has also honed his skills in jiu jitsu; he recently won a gold medal at the Jiu Jitsu World League.
Speaking with Sam Roberts on Notsam Wrestling, Corbin discussed how he has been training in jiu jitsu. He recalled the time someone tried to shoot on him.
“I went to the gym where Shayna trains and Shinsuke trains because I knew it would be safe. Nobody’s trying to hurt you. If those guys are there, it’s good. Because sometimes you walk into these gyms, and I’ve been there before. It was a gym in Arizona. I’ll never forget. When I was in there just training on a bag when I was playing football, this guy kept, ‘Hey, man, you wanna spar? We got a heavyweight [that] needs some work.’ I was like, ‘No, I’m good, I’m just training, doing some bag work.’ They’re like, ‘Come on.’ They kept egging me, kept egging me. I was like, ‘I don’t have headgear, I don’t have a mouthpiece, I’m good.’ They kept going. I was like, fine. I asked the gym owner, ‘You got headgear and a mouthpiece?’ He said yeah. I go, ‘Alright, we’ll do a little bit, man. But if you try to bang, we’re gonna have problems.’ He was like, ‘No, I’m good. We’re just gonna play.’ Sure enough, within 30 seconds, he was trying to kill me. So then I wrecked his entire eye socket. He had to go to the hospital. [Smiles] But you go to gyms all over, and it really happens, man. They go, ‘Oh, he’s a WWE star, and he was in the NFL.’ They want to take a shot, like, ‘Oh, they’re not gonna hurt me. We’re in public.’ Whatever, I cracked that dude’s eye open bad. The gut that owned the gym said he never came back after that," Corbin said.
In the same interview, Corbin described how he could potentially face Roman Reigns. Check out his comments here.
Corbin recently took a picture with Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs game. More information is available here.
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