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** His 2023 return to NXT saw Corbin go on a run of very good matches, including a critically-acclaimed bout with Carmelo Hayes, that won over many of his former detractors.
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** His 2023 return to NXT saw Corbin go on a run of very good matches, including a critically-acclaimed bout with Carmelo Hayes, that won over many of his former detractors. His tag team with Bron Breakker as half of the Wolf Dogs, a pair of ass kicking high energy jocks with great chemistry, solidified a career revival as not only was he more popular than ever but he managed to win his first title since 2017.
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** His 2023 return to NXT saw Corbin go on a run of very good matches, including a critically-acclaimed bout with Carmelo Hayes, that won over many of his former detractors.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Corbin was rather inexplicably picked to be the opponent for the highly-anticipated debut match of Gable Steveson, a former Olympic gold medalist who was being tipped as the next Wrestling/KurtAngle, at the NXT event ''Great American Bash 2023''. Corbin had been [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap having a rather good run since his return to NXT]], which had been winning over his detractors again, but unfortunately the match with Steveson turned out to be an absolute ''disaster'', although not for the reason you might have expected beforehand. The fans simply were ''not'' having anything to do with the former Olympian and utterly rejected him in favour of cheering for Corbin, who admitted in an interview that he tried to get them back to booing him again for a while, before eventually just throwing in the towel and rolling with it rather than continuing to fight against what the crowd clearly wanted.
* RootingForTheEmpire: Corbin was rather inexplicably picked to be the opponent for the highly-anticipated debut match of Gable Steveson, a former Olympic gold medalist who was being tipped as the next Wrestling/KurtAngle, at the NXT event ''Great American Bash 2023''. Corbin had been [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap having a rather good run since his return to NXT]], which had been winning over his detractors again, but unfortunately the match with Steveson turned out to be an absolute ''disaster'', although not for the reason you might have expected beforehand. The fans simply were ''not'' having anything to do with the former Olympian and utterly rejected him in favour of cheering for Corbin, who admitted in an interview that he tried to get them back to booing him again for a while, before eventually just throwing in the towel and rolling with it rather than continuing to fight against what the crowd clearly wanted.
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** Subsequently, his "Sad Corbin" character made him sympathetic because of the performer's commitment to the role (such as purposely not shaving and intentionally wearing the same ketchup-stained shirt week after week) and allowing him to show a personality beyond "generic obnoxious heel" for perhaps the first time since going to the main roster. Many fans thought this could have been a good start to a character shift, even a full-on redemption arc, if WWE had stuck with it. But not only did they ''not'' stick with it, but they retooled him back into a generic obnoxious heel - except now with a sidekick and dad jokes (and not even good ones or SoBadItsGood ones), which many people thought was even worse than his initial heel work.
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* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: For some reason no one's quite figured out yet, he gets legitimate babyface pops any time WWE goes over to France.
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* HilariousInHindsight: All the jokes about Baron Corbin's "sad belly" ended up becoming this when he eventually started the "Sad Corbin" gimmick, which saw his dramatic fall into a miserable, destitute wreck after he (keyfabe) lost most of his money on poor investments.
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* HilariousInHindsight: All the jokes about Baron Corbin's "sad belly" ended up becoming this when he eventually started the "Sad Corbin" gimmick, which saw his dramatic fall transformation into a miserable, destitute wreck after he (keyfabe) lost most of his money on poor investments.
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* CatharsisFactor: Those who ate the whole [[XPacHeat "Baron Corbin is the responsible for every bad thing happening in Raw"]] (or those who had downright grown to hate Corbin as a performer) surely felt this at ''TLC 2018'' and the following ''Raw'' episode.
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* CatharsisFactor: Those who ate the whole [[XPacHeat "Baron Corbin is the responsible for every bad thing happening in Raw"]] (or those who had downright grown to hate Corbin as a performer) surely felt this at ''TLC 2018'' and the following ''Raw'' episode.
