Baron Corbin Discusses Winning MITB

– During a recent edition of Talk is Jericho (transcript credit wrestlinginc.com), Baron Corbin spoke about winning the MITB match…

On Using The MITB Briefcase as a Carry On: “Now, it’s my second carryon. It’s replacing my carryon, so I actually have to use it to carry my iPad, or my headphones, or whatever I have in my little bag I take on the planes is now going to be in my briefcase.” Corbin added, “they just said it goes everywhere with you and I’d be afraid to put it in my checked baggage if it’d come up missing, so it doesn’t fit in any of the carryons I carry on, so now it is the carryon for me!”

On The MITB Match Being Terrifying: “It was really cool. It was a fun process with a lot of guys with a lot of skill in that match and I’ve never been part of a ladder match before. I really never climbed a ladder in a wrestling ring before. That alone is scary enough! I mean, you start going up, it starts wobbling and there [are] people moving, and you’re 10 feet in the air. And then, when you’re up there to take the briefcase off, you’re 12, 14 feet in the air and you have no hands on the ladder. You just went 40 minutes in a grueling war of trying to be the best and you’re up there, you’re legs are shaking, you have no hands on [the ladder]. It’s terrifying! I mean, it’s flat-out terrifying to be reaching for that thing. And then, you’re thinking, ‘don’t be that guy that takes five minutes to get up there and get it off the hook,’ ‘don’t fall off,’ ‘it’s a big moment – don’t screw it up,’ all of those things are going through your head and it’s a sigh of relief when it finally comes off the hook. That’s for sure.”

On Winning: “One of the coolest parts for me, aside from pulling down the briefcase, was… everybody’s excited to see Nakamura’s entrance and when I beat him up in the middle of the strobe lights and sent him to the back injured, the emotion that people let out, of hatred towards me, was amazing. Those moments you don’t get back. It wasn’t about doing a triple-indie onto something. It was about making people angry. I took away something they really wanted to see and that’s what it’s about.”