Former WWE star Baron Corbin, also known as Bishop Dyer, appeared on Busted Open Radio to discuss various topics, including the recent changes in NXT.
Dyer said, “I was watching with my wife last night, and I was like ‘Man, I was in NXT a year ago, a little over a year ago, still when we were doing the ‘Wolf Dog’ stuff,’ and like, I’m watching the show going ‘I have no idea who some of these people are.’ Like, that’s how much the turnover is.”
On connecting with the talent in NXT:
“You really connect with the talent in NXT, and I think it’s for a multitude of reason. I think it’s because they’re finding out who they are, and so we’re kind of learning it with them as they learn in the ring and develop their characters. So there really pushing that, to where it’s like ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown,’ you have several things, like ‘Oh, this is who I am. This is what I do. This is what my character does.’ They don’t develop, or they think they’re already so good, they don’t need to tell their story.”
On what separates NXT from RAW and SmackDown:
“You know, like, one of my frustrations…Bronson Reed is there. And I know you’re a fan of his, and for me, but who is he? What does he do? There’s no…I even remember one time, the character pitch was like ‘He’s a guy that wears sunglasses.’ What the f**k does that tell me about him? And that was real. If you watch his first promos when he was coming up, he was in sunglasses. That was in character. I don’t know. I struggle with that a little bit. So that’s why I do love what they’re doing in ‘NXT.’”
On how he believes TNA star Mike Santana stole the show with his performance this past Tuesday on NXT despite losing the main event:
“I think he stole the show with that. To me, he connected to an audience that didn’t know him. Again, my wife is sitting on the couch…I’ve wrestled for 13 years, she’s been to four shows. She doesn’t care. But she connected to him. And that three minutes was connected and invested in the main event, in somebody she had never seen before. ‘NXT’ has an advantage too, because they’re in the PC all the time. They have all week to do videos, they have all week to set this up, whereas the main roster, they’re together Monday’s and Friday’s, or a PPV day…So they have a little bit of an advantage in ‘NXT’ with that.”
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