New Details May Reveal The Real Reason WWE SMACKDOWN LIVE Superstar Baron Corbin's Push Was Cut Short
Ever since Baron Corbin failed to cash-in his Money in The Bank briefcase we've been hearing rumors about what might have soured WWE on making him a ME player, and now we might just know what happened...
Everything from John Cena to poor social media conduct have been given as possible reasons for Baron Corbin's main event push coming to an abrupt stop, but now a new report from PWInsider.com claims to have knowledge of what actually went down to sour the company on The Lone Wolf.
According to them, Corbin actually got heat with management when he interrupted a talent meeting with Dr.Joseph Maroon, who heads the company's Wellness Policy. Apparently, Maroon was brought in to discuss the importance of concussion-related injuries to the talents and why they should report them to WWE management ASAP - however, Corbin is said to have challenged him on some of his findings.
"PWInsider was told by multiple sources that Corbin, a former NFL player, cut off Maroon and expressed an opinion, as a former NFL football player, that challenged Maroon. We are told that Corbin argued that there would be some form of head trauma with every play as football helmets are always cracking against each other. During the exchange, Corbin noted he is part of a concussion-related lawsuit against the NFL and said that he knew Maroon was against CTE, leading to Maroon to state that his depiction in a film about that as incorrect."
Although Corbin is not said to have been belligerent, the two did argue back and forth for several minutes and things reportedly got very "awkward." Though some of the other wrestlers were apparently impressed with Corbin speaking up, the higher-ups seemed to feel that he should have voiced his opinion to Maroon privately, and he ultimately wound up disrupting a very important meeting.
Apparently, if anything led to the company pulling back on Corbin's push, that was it.
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