Baron Corbin wants to be remembered as a wrestler who could be depended on from bell to bell.
Baron Corbin has wrestled with many main-eventers throughout his tenure on the main roster. Despite this, Corbin feels like he is not on the level of names like Roman Reigns and John Cena, but he hopes to work himself up to that level.
Speaking with Chris Van Vliet, Corbin reflected on his hopes that he will potentially work his way back up to being a main-eventer on the main roster through his work to rebuild his character on NXT.
"I mean, you have to be on a level of like Seth, Roman, and John Cena to go away for five years and come back and do it in your late 40s or early 50s for some guys who come back," he said. "You have to be on this certain level of magnitude I think. Now, I've been in the ring with all those guys but am I on that level? Humbly, I like to say I'm not. Six years from now, do they call me back, 'Hey, we want you to come back and make a big run.' I don't know if I'm going to be that guy for them to do that. I hope. I mean that that's the goal. The goal is to continue to grind and that's what I'm doing in NXT. Hunter has challenged me to reinvent myself and I'm doing that. I feel like I'm doing it really well and so it could launch back to where we go back to SmackDown or Raw and I have a nice couple of months where it really they're like, 'Oh, man. it's catching fire,' randomly, and then the next thing you know, you're in the ring with Roman Reigns or Cody at WrestleMania or whatever it is.
"That could elevate me like put a button on my career of, 'No he really is that guy.' You were in that position. A lot of people, again, refused to call me 'a main-eventer,' but for over three years straight, I was in every single main event there was," he adds.
Corbin also says that he hopes that when his career is all said and done, he gets respect for the level of performance he could put on and his body of work.
"I feel like wrestling fans have a short memory sometimes. Whatever you've done recently, that's what you are," he said. "Let's look at the whole thing. You don't look at a football player and go 'Ah, he's not a Hall of Famer because his last season wasn't very good, but the eight seasons before that he was an all-pro player,' or he rushed for 2000 yards and then all of a sudden he had a bad year, they don't go, 'He's not a good football player.' Let's look at the whole thing. Let's open the book. Let's see what I've done, who I've been in the ring with, and I think when you look at that as a whole you go 'Huh, yeah, maybe he is a main-eventer. I may have hated him but the dude could go.'"
Elsewhere in this interview, Corbin spoke about the lessons he's learned from names like The Rock and John Cena. Learn more here.
Fans can read Baron Corbin's thoughts on his repackaging here.
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