Donovan Dijak Reflects On Teaming With Baron Corbin In MLW

Donovan Dijak loved working with Baron Corbin in MLW.

Before returning to WWE earlier this summer, Bishop Dyer (Baron Corbin) was on a hell of a run in MLW alongside Dijak. The duo even held the MLW World Tag Team Championships for well over a year before dropping them on an August episode of Fusion.

Speaking with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp for an interview that was recorded before Corbin returned to WWE, Dijak spoke about teaming with ‘The Nomad’.

“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.'”

Dijak went on to praise Corbin for being a pioneer of moves.

“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 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, ‘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.”

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