Colby Corino is motivated to live up to his legacy.
During a recent interview with WrestleZone, Colby Corino was asked about what type of pressure he feels coming from a wrestling family. Corino said it’s definite there, but he feels like it’s pressure he puts on himself.
“I definitely feel pressure, but I don’t think it’s an external pressure. I don’t feel pressure from other people putting it on me, I feel it from myself putting it on. Because I want to be able to exceed what my family’s already done. I don’t want to be look at as a lesser model, a washed-down version whatever they were. I want to be the best form of Colby Corino that there is. I think I’m doing a pretty good job of that. I feel like my work is a lot different than what my aunt and my dad did, but there’s always those Corino traits that you can see with all three of us. I definitely feel a pressure, but it’s a good pressure that motivates me.
“It’s weird because when I first started out, I didn’t feel that pressure at all because I grew up around wrestling. All people that I was surrounded by were super supportive and super nice. They didn’t exert that pressure on me. But as I grew older, I started to realize what being part of a prestigious wrestling family means to myself and to the public. So I put that pressure on myself to live up to it.”
Corino was asked about his current goals in wrestling, and he said there’s one title he’s always had in his crosshairs.
“Ever since it was announced, that NWA Jr. Heavyweight belt has felt like it was Colby Corino’s belt. Even though I haven’t had it yet, I just know, I feel like my destiny and that belt is intertwined, and one day I’m going to get my own. You can put this in the headlines that, ‘One day, Colby Corino will win that junior heavyweight belt.’ I’m calling my shot right now. Outside of that, I don’t know. I’m really planning for 2023 to be a huge year for me. I got a couple things in the slow cooker that I don’t want reveal yet that we’ve tasted, but I think that anyone who’s a Colby Corino fan will be excited about whatever happens for me in 2023. I’ve got a few cool things cooking up.
“That was one of the things that drew me into the NWA, was their history and how much they pay respect to the history. One of my favorite championships is the NWA Jr. Heavyweight title, and just looking at the lineage of that—Shinjiro Otani, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, it’s Dory Funk Jr., and there’s so many all-time greats. And now I have opportunities to be able to add my name to that list, and that’s a very special opportunity for me.”
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