Baron Corbin is a deeply complex man, but then I suppose all lone wolves tend to be complex. We all know that Corbin hates independent wrestlers, and that his further objects of hatred include Conor McGregor and all children who aren’t directly related to him.
Presumably, Corbin’s likes include shirts with wolves on them, tattoos with clocks in them, and his Money in the Bank briefcase, which will almost certainly bring him his first WWE Championship within the next year. But according to the Lonely Wolf himself, the actual act of winning the MITB briefcase was decidedly less than fun. In fact, it sounds like it was downright harrowing.
In an interview with FOX 8 Cleveland, Corbin talked about how nerve-wracking it is to try to secure a briefcase while you’re way up in the air on a rickety-ass ladder. (Transcript via Wrestling Inc.)
“It was terrifying, because I’m on a 16-foot ladder and it’s moving, and there are people trying to throw me off of it — and that’s the thing, too; I thought, ‘Oh it’s a ladder, it’ll be easy.’ And even just kind of walking through things and climbing up the ladder, I was like ‘Wait, this is moving.’ And then I’m gonna add five other people to being in the match, and I have to take both hands off the ladder to unclip it and I’m going, ‘Please, just don’t fall off, don’t be here for five minutes trying to … ‘ It’s an experience, but I walked away with [the briefcase].”
As Jim Ross once put forward before every WWE DVD ever, how do you learn to fall off a 20-foot ladder? I can barely even be ON a ladder, let alone put my arms over my head and try to retrieve a briefcase from a carabiner. So yeah, I’m going to go ahead and believe Corbin on this one. I will not apologize for my anti-being-on-a-ladder stance, as this has been ingrained in me for some time.
