In a recent interview with Chris Van Vliet as part of the INSIGHT With Chris Van Vliet podcast, former WWE star Tom Pestock (fka Baron Corbin) discussed several topics, including his next potential career move.
“I would love to go to New Japan for multiple reasons, and you know, the door never closes with WWE either, and as far as AEW, their fans, they like that AEW in a sense is its own entity and built from the ground up, and I don’t want to be, if I went there, out of respect for that world, I wouldn’t want to be just another WWE guy that came there because they left WWE. I would rather go and do like New Japan for a year or more, who knows, maybe that’s where I just love it and I stay there for the rest of my wrestling career, so if I ever did go that route, I would want to kind of clear that, oh he’s just a WWE guy coming over, like Baron Corbin is dead as far as we know.
We’re dropping a new name, new moniker, new character. I love wrestling, I love the creativeness of it, I love the freedom, I love performing in front of an audience and getting that live feedback in the moment, there’s nothing better. TNA has called, so maybe there’s something there, maybe NWA, like I am open to it all because I love wrestling, and if I can go somewhere and be infront of fans, I’m going to go, it’s just I know that I don’t want to sign a contract right now, because I like this ability.
I’m going with ‘The Nomad’ Bishop Dyer, I’m going to be The Nomad, I’m going to roam. It pays tribute to The Lone Wolf, dire wolf, and then a Bishop is higher than a Baron, so we’re going up, the rankings are going up. It’s getting trademarked, so don’t even try it suckers, getting trademarked right now, but I think it’s just a powerful name, it’s a cool name and I want to be The Nomad man, I’m going to float and see where the wrestling world takes me in that sense.”
The full interview is available at this link.