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Old 02-28-2018, 12:06 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by Fragile X View Post
It is a little pedo for sure. Also Corbin really could be the counterpoint to Roman if they pushed him correctly, I know they see that potential in him. In addition to his hair he should also try and find Roman's steroid guy, or maybe one that is more on the DL, because he looks flabby.
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Originally Posted by Anybody Thrilla View Post
I think the biggest problem is that his promo sucks copious amounts of ass.
In a complete 180 to most people, Corbin's push(es) is fine, *he* just is the weak link here. There were 3 people that the company were super obviously behind since NXT and wanting to bank on them being "the future", and they were this guy, Roman, and Jason Jordan. They kept mishandling Jason by wanting him to be this breakout singles superstar... only to pair him with yet another teammate who actually markedly better than him. Roman was picked to be a manufactured Cena/Rock lovechild and they never looked back with that decision, even when it made logical sense to abandon it with something that would actually work.

Then, you have Corbin.

For all the "command presence" and sneering facials, he's still fairly clumsy in the ring - not All Red Everything hurt people clumsy, but just stilted like he's a backup dancer who is trying real hard to remember his steps - and (which they tried to hide in NXT with Goldberg style squashes), and ABT so eloquently put it "his promo sucks copius amounts of ass". The only ~decent~ one I remember was his first appearance after wining the Andre Memorial where he goes: "For those of you who don't know me... I don't care." That was about the only time he came off as a cocky, amoral asshole heel. The rest of the time he speaks, he sounds like a whiny pussy: exactly the opposite of how he's being billed.

Putting this a better way: he's exactly where Brawn Strowman would be if Brawn didn't make you buy what he's selling. Yeah, Brawn's a giant of a man, but if he exuded all the confidence in his words and actions of a pre-Nexus David Otunga, we would be mentioning this guy in conversations about The Great Khali and El Gigante. Even with the jobber feedings and golden positions, and feuds with potential future Hall of Famers, he's just *not* improving.

In fact, I dare say that through sheer collective apathy, he may possibly garner more X-Pac heat than X-Pac, and have that trope renamed after himself.

Or maybe one day, it will *click*, and he'll find his "Rusev Day". Who knows.
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