Erick Rowan Praises Dedication of Baron Corbin to Improve, Notes the Necessary Attitude for Recruited Athletes

– While speaking to The Ten Count’s Steve Fall for Wrestling News.co, former WWE Superstar Erick Rowan (aka Erick Redbeard) discussed athletes from other sports who get into wrestling, and he also had high praise for Baron Corbin and his dedication to improving his craft in wrestling. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):

Erick Rowan on Baron Corbin’s dedication to improve: “There’s some naturally gifted athletes that don’t have that dedication. That they made it so far in their sport that they played before, and now they get a chance and an opportunity with WWE. And there’s some people that have dedication that’ll prove [it] every day and get better and better. Baron Corbin was one of those guys that had dedication in him. There’s other guys that didn’t have that dedication in them, to improve and get better,” said Rowan.

On his own personal journey on the indies: “The same with independent wrestling, I include myself in that, in that I’m a guy [where] I had to be on top of a lot of things, but I kept going and I kept improving because I’m a dedicated guy. And when I put my mind to stuff, I follow through, I do it, and those are the kind of people you need in the business.”

Redbeard on athletes from other sports who get into wrestling: “You need people with ‘check your ego at the door’ [attitudes]. It’s weird to me because wrestling is — people call it art, people call it dancing, but it’s two to four to six people in a ring at a time having to work together to make each other look like they’re beating the crap out of each other, stretching each other to the limit, without hurting each other. There’s no room for egos, to say ‘I’m the best,’ because no, you’re doing the best to make the fans happy.”