Baron Corbin shares a story of seriously hurting someone who tried to shoot on him at the gym.
The WWE star spoke on this topic during a recent interview with NotSam Wrestling, where he opened up about training jiu jitsu and recalled wrecking a dude’s eye socket when sparring at a random gym in Arizona.
It was a gym in Arizona. I’ll never forget. When I was in there just training on a bag when I was playing football, this guy kept, ‘Hey, man, you wanna spar? We got a heavyweight [that] needs some work.’ I was like, ‘No, I’m good, I’m just training, doing some bag work.’ They’re like, ‘Come on.’ They kept egging me, kept egging me. I was like, ‘I don’t have headgear, I don’t have a mouthpiece, I’m good.’ They kept going. I was like, fine. I asked the gym owner, ‘You got headgear and a mouthpiece?’ He said yeah. I go, ‘Alright, we’ll do a little bit, man. But if you try to bang, we’re gonna have problems.’ He was like, ‘No, I’m good. We’re just gonna play.’ Sure enough, within 30 seconds, he was trying to kill me. So then I wrecked his entire eye socket. He had to go to the hospital. [Smiles] But you go to gyms all over, and it really happens, man. They go, ‘Oh, he’s a WWE star, and he was in the NFL.’ They want to take a shot, like, ‘Oh, they’re not gonna hurt me. We’re in public.’ Whatever, I cracked that dude’s eye open bad. The guy that owned the gym said he never came back after that.
Elsewhere in the interview, Corbin spoke about the WWE Universe starting to cheer him and how that momentum could potentially land him a match with Roman Reigns. You can read about that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)