Donovan Dijak Discusses Working With Baron Corbin in MLW, Praises Him as a ‘Pioneer of Moves’

During a recent interview with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp, former MLW Tag Team Champion Donovan Dijak discussed his tag team partnership with Baron Corbin in MLW. As The Skyscrapers, they won the MLW World Tag Team Titles in June 2025 at Summer of the Beasts.

The Skyscrapers held the belts until May, losing them to The Good Brothers. Dijak praised Corbin’s work ethic and being an innovator in the ring. Below are some highlights from Fightful:

Donovan Dijak on What It Was Like Working With Baron Corbin

“Thrilled. I couldn’t have been happier. We got to work together one time in WWE. It was a triple threat with Carmelo Hayes, and it was so much fun. He was at a point in his career where he really had a chip on his shoulder, and he wanted to prove something, and then he came into here with that exact same chip. It was two guys who really had something to prove in a situation that encouraged that. So we were both very happy about that. We got to wrestle together in Mexico. We got to work together in Australia. We were supposed to wrestle together in Australia. I don’t know if you saw what happened to his eye. I was standing 10 feet from it when it happened. I was like, ‘Oh, my God,’ because he comes up just covered in blood. His eye looks like it’s hanging out of the socket. It was brutal. I was like, ‘Oh, there goes that tag match we were supposed to have.’”

His Thoughts on Corbin

“I think it’s so cool when you come back to the indies, and you experience a lot of people calling matches and stuff that moves and things and setups, and things get referred to by wrestlers’ names. So often will people talk about, ‘I’m gonna hit you with a Deep Six,’ or ‘I’m gonna hit you with an End of Days,’ and I’m like, it must be like a very fulfilling thing to know that, because that does not happen with me. Because my moves are way too complex to be referred to; no one would ever pick up someone in a Torture Rack and say, ‘I’m gonna go for the Feast Your Eyes.’ I’ve never heard that before, but End of Days and Deep Six you hear constantly on the indies. So that’s cool that he’s sort of set himself up as like a pioneer of moves and stuff like that. He’s not a guy who would want to be known as like a pioneer. He’s, like, the last person. He’s like, ‘It’s not about the moves. It’s about the moments and the emotions, stuff like that.’ The fact that he’s established as a moves guy is very funny.”

Baron Corbin returned to WWE last month, sparking a feud with Trick Williams. At WWE SummerSlam 2026, Corbin defeated Williams and won the WWE US Championship for the second time in his career.