Riddick Moss talks about his relationship with Baron Corbin.
Madcap Moss and Happy Corbin developed a relationship on the Friday Night SmackDown brand. Although the partnership was short-lived and the two men are now rivals on-screen, Moss was able to learn a lot from the former WWE United States Champion.
Speaking on the Out of Character podcast with Ryan Satin, Moss spoke about the ending of the partnership, becoming a babyface, and what he learned along the way.
"Before I came back from when he put me out with the injury, the first SmackDown after WrestleMania was when he was gonna turn on me. That whole day I was like, my whole life in NXT and my short career on the main roster, I’ve been a heel, and it’s just what I’ve done. I haven’t been very popular with the WWE Universe, and it’s been understandable. But even the week before, I won the Andre, and I was trying to cut what was supposed to be a heartfelt promo about winning the Andre, and I started getting chants about how much I suck. I just had to be a delusional winner and say I’m beloved just as much as Andre was," said Moss.
Madcap had his reservations about ending the partnership with Happy Corbin, but is listening to those around him that are more experienced and finding that things are working out okay.
"I’ve tried to take that attitude into everything that I’ve done, like there’s guys that have been up here, they’ve been in this business their whole lives, and they’ve been found this for so long, they have so much experience and at a high level, and they’ve had so many successes," he said. "They know what they’re doing, and so for me to come in and just have my opinion and have my thought and care about it but not be so stuck in my ways and make sure I’m listening, and taking everything in. But that was a moment of really reminding me like yeah, I don’t know at all what’s going on here. I need to just shut up and listen a whole bunch because I doubted it and I couldn’t have been more wrong. "
Speaking about the overall benefit of his partnership with Corbin, Madcap Moss says that both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, working with Corbin has been a huge benefit to his career.
"Not only is he guiding me, but he also allows me to play off of him as I’m out there, which I think is really important, as opposed to just going out there and having to establish exactly who I am just on my own with a five-minute monologue on the microphone or something like that, or even just in a match, just trying to establish exactly who I am, as opposed to being out there with a guy who I can play off of. We can communicate, we can go back and forth, he can be mad at me, I can feel sorry, he can degrade me and I can get angry, all these things that I can play off of him. So both on-screen and behind the scenes, just a huge benefit, and I think that especially with the audience too, coming up, he has credibility already. Six years, seven years now, maybe, of steady television time. The audience knows exactly who he is. So for me to come up and be a part of him, part of his whole presence and presentation, just did wonders for me. Helped me get ahead and established in the minds of the audience," Madcap said.
Now, Corbin is involved in a rivalry with Pat McAfee and the two will face off at SummerSlam. You can check out the full card here.
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