History Wrestling / BaronCorbin

!!"You Can't Trope Fate":

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Thanks to his schtick as the Constable of Raw, and his part on the TerribleTrio he formed with Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre and Wrestling/BobbyLashley, he almost reached a Wrestling/BrockLesnar-like level of rejection on the roster:
--> '''Wrestling/SethRollins:''' ''We know that nobody likes [[Wrestling/BobbyLashley Lashley]], nobody in the world likes Corbin, [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating not one person actually]], [[UpToEleven not, not a human that's ever existed in all of space and time]].''

** As Constable Corbin, he got into multiple altercations with Finn Balor and Kurt Angle, hoping to dethrone the latter as Raw's General Manager. He also got into one with Braun Strowman after screwing him for the Universal Championship at ''Crown Jewel''. Pissed off, the Monster Among Men demanded a match with Corbin at ''TLC'' to determine Corbin's position as Raw's General Manager. Not wanting to face him, Corbin teamed up with Dolph Ziggler, Drew [=McIntyre=] and Bobby Lashley to destroy Strowman, breaking his arm in the process. The feud reignited later with both Angle and Strowman after Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2019.

* BigBadWannabe: As Raw GM, his authority was about as recognized by the roster as you'd expect, to the point Elias had no reservations in decking him with his guitar.

* TheBully: Corbin is a big guy and one of his hobbies is beating up small guys. He hates small guys. Especially Kalisto.

* EvilVersusEvil: Versus Wrestling/TheMiz at Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2017.
* {{Expy}}: Not so much in character, but he has a lot of similarities to 80's WWF wrestler and his trainer [[Wrestling/AllenCoage Bad News Brown]], especially his loner, misanthropic tendencies and inability to get along with either faces or heels.

*** Both have the ''same lyric'' in their best-known entrance themes ("I'll be your end of days")

* HateSink: As acting ''Raw'' general manager, his management goal seems solely to be "get as much heat as possible".
* HatesEveryoneEqually: He's not just a loner out of choice, part of his main-roster gimmick is that he's hated and despised by the other wrestlers in the locker room, and it's clear that the feeling is mutual.

* SignatureMove: Apart from [[FinishingMove Emd of Days]], Deep Six, a spinning back suplex or side slam.

* SitcomArchNemesis: To Wrestling/KurtAngle as the Constable of Raw, trying to revert Angle's more lenient decisions into far more severe ones.

* WrestlingMonster: No one[[note:except Austin Aries when they were back in ''NXT'']] has kicked out of his finisher. ''No one''.

* WrestlingMonster: No one[[note:except Austin Aries when they were back in NXT]] has kicked out of his finisher. ''No one''.

* DavidVersusGoliath: Corbin's bigger than most people. His favorites to beat up, though, seem to be indy types on the smaller side of the size spectrum. Definitely true of his feud with Kalisto, who's the smallest guy on the roster that doesn't exclusively work the Cruiserweight Division.

* TheAloner: His RedBaron (no pun intended) is the "Lone Wolf" for a reason.

* AntiHero: as a face.

** After debuting into the main roster, he and Dolph Ziggler had been at each other throats for months.
** As Constable Corbin, he gets into multiple altercations with Finn Balor and Kurt Angle, hoping to dethrone the latter as Raw's General Manager. He also gets into one with Braun Strowman after screwing him for the Universal Championship at ''Crowns Jewel''. Pissed off, the Monster Among Men demanded a match with Corbin at ''TLC'' to determine Corbin's position as Raw's General Manager. Not wanting to face him, Corbin teamed up with Dolph Ziggler, Drew [=McIntyre=] and Bobby Lashley to destroy Strowman, breaking his arm in the process. The fued reignited later both Angle and Strowman after Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2019.
** He also has two short feuds with Kalisto and Sin Cara in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
** In late 2018 he's feud with Wrestling/{{Elias}} after not becoming permanent General Manager of Raw.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: The day after he lost his power as General Manager of Raw, Corbin is put into a match against Kurt Angle which then changed into a 4-1 Handicap Match midway and later a No Disqualification match. When he is still in power, Corbin will often changed the stipulation of matches midway in his or his associates' favor.

* BadassBiker: He has a bit of a biker motif and is also a motorcycle afficionado in real life.

* BigBadWannabe: As Raw GM, his authority is about as recognized by the roster as you'd expect, to the point Elias had no reservations in decking him with his guitar.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Following his failed MITB cash-in on Wrestling/JinderMahal, WWE gave Corbin a subtle, but appreciable repackaging, giving him [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJnzfT44KXI a new entrance theme]] and altering his gimmick so as to make him look less like an archetypical bully and more like a ruthless, borderline-Satanic hound of hell. This, naturally, created a perfect contrast when Corbin challenged and defeated squeaky-clean, all-American Southern boy Wrestling/AJStyles for the United States Championship.

* TheDogBitesBack: At ''TLC'' 2018, everyone that Corbin had antagonized with during his tenure as Constable of Raw (Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, Bobby Roode, and Chad Gable) helped Braun Strowman to beat up Corbin retribution for everything he had done to them. To make things worse, Heath Slater, whom Corbin made as a referee and fired his friend Rhyno two weeks ago, sided against him as well and made the count when Strowman pinned him.

* {{Expy}}: Not so much in character, but he has a lot of similarities to 80's WWF wrestler and his trainer [[Wrestling/AllenCoage Bad News Brown]], especially his loner, misanthropic tendencies and unable to get along with either faces or heels.

*** Being tall, smug heels with real-life backgrounds in a legit combat sport (Barrett a bareknuckle boxer at 6'7", Corbin a regional champion boxer in the Kansas[=/=]Missouri area at 6'8")

* FailedASpotCheck: After the ''Raw'' sweep at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', Wrestling/BraunStrowman was granted a match against Corbin for ''TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs'', the stipulations being that a) it was going to be a TLC match (remember this point) and b) if Corbin won, he would be the permanent GM of ''Raw'', while if he lost he would lose that position[[note]]If Braun won, he would also get a shot at Wrestling/BrockLesnar's Universal Championship, but that's beside the point[[/note]]. So Corbin, in his quest to ensure the job, staged an assault on the next ''Raw'' upon Strowman, with the help of fellow heels Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre and Wrestling/BobbyLashley, breaking Braun's arms in the process. He also got to split the TagTeam of Wrestling/HeathSlater and Wrestling/{{Rhyno}}, firing the latter and making the former an official. Come ''TLC'', with Slater as the official for their match, he started the countdown; when it reached 8, Braun's music hit... and he reminded Corbin that a side stipulation of TLC matches was the lack of disqualifications and countouts. [[spoiler:Cue Braun summoning Wrestling/ApolloCrews, Wrestling/ChadGable, Wrestling/BobbyRoode and Wrestling/FinnBalor to unleash hell upon him, Slater turning on him, and Corbin escaping... [[FromBadToWorse only for]] Wrestling/KurtAngle's music hitting and the Olympic Gold Medallist taking Corbin in a trip to suplex city. Slater's final act as official that day was the three count for Strowman's win]]. Long story short: a minuscule detail which slipped up ended up with Corbin losing his power and everyone he tormented getting back at him.

* HeelFaceTurn: In 2018 Wrestling/KevinOwens and Wrestling/SamiZayn attacked Corbin before the match against Wrestling/DolphZiggler turning Corbin face for the first time in his career.

* WrestlingMonster: No one has kicked out of his finisher. ''No one''.

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Corbin has "13" emblazoned on his pants, which he considers his lucky number. It even was his number in the 2017 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'', where he managed to eliminate the unstoppable Wrestling/BraunStrowman. Pestock's birthday also falls on September 13.

In 2018, he was drafted to ''Raw'' and after ''Backlash 2018'' became a {{heel}} authority, first as "Constable" Baron Corbin, relying Commisioner Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon's orders and opinions to GM Wrestling/KurtAngle, then (after Angle's screw-ups granting him a "vacation") as the [[TheStarscream "Acting General Manager"]] all the way up to ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', then as [[DrunkWithPower "Elected General Manager"]] on the road to ''TLC 2018'', where he was finally ousted from power.

In 2018, he was drafted to ''Raw'' and after ''Backlash 2018'' became a {{heel}} authority, first as "Constable" Baron Corbin, relying Stephanie's orders and opinions to GM Wrestling/KurtAngle, then (after Angle's screw-ups granting him a "vacation") as the [[TheStarscream "Acting General Manager"]] all the way up to ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', then as [[DrunkWithPower "Elected General Manager"]] on the road to ''TLC 2018'', where he was finally ousted from power.

He was initially a {{Jobber}} prior to being repackaged as a WrestlingMonster. At ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} 32'', he made his main roster debut at that year's Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal and winning it too. Later that year he was drafted to ''[=SmackDown=] Live'' and in 2017 became Mr. Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank and won the United States Championship at ''Hell in a Cell''.

** As Constable Corbin, he gets into multiple altercations with Finn Balor and Kurt Angle, hoping to dethrone the latter as Raw's General Manager. He also gets into one with Braun Strowman after screwing him for the Universal Championship at ''Crowns Jewel''. Pissed off, the Monster Among Men demanded a match with Corbin at ''TLC'' to determine Corbin's position as Raw's General Manager. Not wanting to face him, Corbin teamed up with Dolph Ziggler, Drew [=McIntyre=] and Bobby Lashley to destroy Strowman, breaking his arm in the process. The fued reignted later both Angle and Strowman after Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2019.

** As Constable Corbin, he gets into multiple altercations with Finn Balor and Kurt Angle, hoping to dethrone the latter as Raw's General Manager. He also gets into one with Braun Strowman after screwing him for the Universal Championship at ''Crowns Jewel''. Pissed off, the Monster Among Men demanded a match with Corbin at ''TLC'' to determine Corbin's position as Raw's General Manager. Not wanting to face him, Corbin teamed up with Dolph Ziggler, Drew [=McIntyre=] and Bobby Lashley to destroy Strowman, breaking his arm in the process. The fued renignted later both Angle and Strowman after Wrestling/RoyalRumble 2019.

** As Constable Corbin, he gets into multiple altercations with Finn Balor and Kurt Angle, hoping to dethrone the latter as Raw's General Manager. He also gets into one with Braun Strowman after screwing him for the Universal Championship at ''Crowns Jewel''. Pissed off, the Monster Among Men demanded a match with Corbin at ''TLC'' to determine Corbin's position as Raw's General Manager. Not wanting to face him, Corbin teamed up with Dolph Ziggler, Drew [=McIntyre=] and Bobby Lashley to destroy Strowman, breaking his arm in the process.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After the ''Raw'' sweep at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', Wrestling/BraunStrowman was granted a match against Corbin for ''TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs'', the stipulations being that a) it was going to be a TLC match (remember this point) and b) if Corbin won, he would be the permanent GM of ''Raw'', while if he lost he would lose that position[[note]]If Braun won, he would also get a shot at Wrestling/BrockLesnar's Universal Championship, but that's beside the point[[/note]]. So Corbin, in his quest to ensure the job, staged an assault on the next ''Raw'' upon Strowman, with the help of fellow heels Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre and Wrestling/BobbyLashley, breaking Braun's arms in the process. He also got to split the TagTeam of Wrestling/HeathSlater and Wrestling/{{Rhyno}}, firing the latter and making the former an official. Come ''TLC'', with Slater as the official for their match, he started the countdown; when it reached 8, Braun's music hit... and he reminded Corbin that a side stipulation of TLC matches was the lack of disqualifications and countouts. [[spoiler:Cue Braun summoning Wrestling/ApolloCrews, Wrestling/ChadGable, Wrestling/BobbyRoode and Wrestling/FinnBalor to unleash hell upon him, Slater turning on him, and Corbin escaping... [[FromBadToWorse only for]] Wrestling/KurtAngle's music hitting and the Olympic Gold Medallist taking Corbin in a trip to suplex city. Slater's final act as official that day was the three count for Strowman's win]]. Long story short: a minuscule detail which slipped up ended up with Corbin losing his power and everyone he tormented getting back at him.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After the ''Raw'' sweep at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2018'', Wrestling/BraunStrowman was granted a match against Corbin for ''TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs'', the stipulations being that a) it was going to be a TLC match (remember this point) and b) if Corbin won, he would be the permanent GM of ''Raw'', while if he lost he would lose that position[[note]]If Braun won, he would also get a shot at Wrestling/BrockLesnar's Universal Championship, but that's beside the point[[/note]]. So Corbin, in his quest to ensure the job, staged an assault on the next ''Raw'' upon Strowman, with the help of fellow heels Wrestling/DolphZiggler, Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre and Wrestling/BobbyLashley, breaking Braun's arms in the process. He also got to split the TagTeam of Wrestling/HeathSlater and Wrestling/{{Rhyno}}, firing the latter and making the former an official. Come ''TLC'', with Slater as the official for their match, he started the countdown; when it reached 8, Braun's music hit... and he reminded Corbin that a side stipulation of TLC matches was the lack of disqualifications and countouts. [[spoiler:Cue Braun summoning Wrestling/ApolloCrews, Wrestling/ChadGable, Wrestling/BobbyRoode and Wrestling/FinnBalor to unleash hell upon him, Slater turning on him, and Corbin escaping... [[FromBadToWorse only for]] Wrestling/KurtAngle's music hitting and the Olympic Gold Medallist taking Corbin in a trip to suplex city. Slater's final act as official that day was the three count for Strowman's win]]. Long story short: a minuscule detail which slipped up ended up with Corbin losing his power.
* TheDogBitesBack: At ''TLC'' 2018, everyone that Corbin had antagonized with during his tenure as Constable of Raw (Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, Bobby Roode, and Chad Gable) helped Braun Strowman to beat up Corbin retribution for everything he had done to them. To make things worse, Heath Slater, whom Corbin made as a referee two weeks ago, sided against him as well and made the count when Strowman pinned him.

* TheQuietOne: He didn't talk a lot at first — he walked in, squashed his match, and usually left straight afterwards without so much as saying a single word. This changed when Bull Dempsey started to annoy him. Since joining the commentary team on NXT, Corey Graves has claimed that they would hang around the same circles, and while Corbin didn't say much, when he did speak, people paid attention.

* TooDumbToLive: Yes Corbin, antagonize a ton of the locker room, arrange a TLC match (which means no disqualifications) in which you'll be stripped of your power if you lost, and then have [[Wrestling/HeathSlater someone]] you forced to retire from wrestling to become a referee call the match. [[SarcasmMode That won't blow up in your face at all]].

* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: The day after he loss his power as General Manager of Raw, Corbin is put into a match against Kurt Angle which then changed into a 4-1 Handicap Match midway and later a No Disqualification match. When he is still in power, Corbin will often changed the stipulation of matches midway in his or his associates' favor.

* TheDogBitesBack: At ''TLC'' 2018, everyone that Corbin had antagonized with during his tenure as Constable of Raw (Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, Bobby Roode, and Chad Gable) helped Braun Storwman to beat up Corbin retribution for everything he had done to them. To make things worse, Heath Slater, whom Corbin made as a referee two weeks ago, sided against him as well and made the count when Strowman pinned him.

* TooDumbToLive: Yes Corbin, antagonize a ton of the locker room, arrange a TLC match (which means no disqualifications), and then have [[Wrestling/HeathSlater someone]] you forced to retire from wrestling to become a referee call the match. [[SarcasmMode That won't blow up in your face at all]].