WWE Star Touts Being Able To ‘Reinvent’ Himself In NXT

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A main roster WWE star has elaborated being able to ‘reinvent’ himself in NXT, including having more control over his character.

Baron Corbin opened up in a chat with Fightful regarding his time in NXT including what attracted him to the NXT opportunity in the first place.

Corbin said:

“I think that’s something I’ve always had as well. They put me in the ring with Kurt Angle. They put me in with Cena. They put me in with The Rock because they trust what I can do.

“They know whatever I do, it’s going to be 110%. So the free agent (status), same thing. I was like, ‘What is this? What does this mean? Am I out of a job? What are we doing?’

“They were like, ‘No, we just don’t know what story we want to put you in yet, so we don’t want to pigeonhole you and have you on Raw or SmackDown’. That was kind of the way it was originally told me.

“‘We want you to be able to float because when we figure it out —’ because the character was coming off the JBL stuff, it wasn’t working, obviously. So it was like, ‘Okay, well, what are we doing?’ It kind of came up at Draft time, and they did that.

“So then I was asked, ‘Hey, would you be interested in going to NXT and working?’ I said, ‘ Absolutely.’ It’s an hour and a half up the road from me. I’ll be able to go do the show, go home, and get my bed.’

“So when they presented it to me, I just saw it as an opportunity. I didn’t know what the opportunity was, but when I went down there, Shawn [Michaels] is going, ‘Hey, what do you want this to be?’ I go, ‘Well, here’s what I would love to do.

“I would love to not be on Raw or SmackDown.’ Because I was also working with Cameron Grimes at the time on SmackDown, so I was doing NXT and SmackDown.

“I said, ‘I would love to just be here, and let’s redo my character. Let’s let me tell you what I think I am.’

“He’s like, ‘I love that. Let’s do you. You have full control, essentially, on what you want to do’, and they keep me in parameters, obviously, but they’re letting me just kind of reinvent myself as me, and I think we’re presenting a really cool thing to the fans in NXT.”

Corbin will be in action on tonight’s October 17 episode in a three-way match against Carmelo Hayes and Dijak, with the winner challenging Ilja Dragunov for the NXT Championship at Halloween Havoc.

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