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My Take
Baron Corbin, born Thomas Pestock in Lenexa, Kansas, fascinates me as a study in pure athletic reinvention. Football, amateur boxing, Brazilian jiu jitsu, then a long run in WWE, and now a new identity in MLW as Bishop Dyer with a tag-team title to his name. What I respect is not any single peak but his refusal to vanish. Wrestling is brutal about discarding people once their moment passes, yet he keeps changing his name, his promotion, his role and walking back through the ropes. That stubborn, body-first persistence is the trait I find genuinely compelling about him.
Overview
Thomas Pestock (born September 13, 1984) is an American professional wrestler, Brazilian jiu jitsu practitioner, former professional football player and former amateur boxer. He is now working for Major League Wrestling (MLW), where he performs under the ring name Bishop Dyer and is one-half of the MLW World Tag Team Champions with Donovan Dijak in their first reign, while also making appearances on the independent c…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Baron Corbin
- Name (Japanese)
- トム・ペストック
- Reading
- とむ・ぺすとっく
- Born
- September 13, 1984 (age 41)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Rat
- Origin
- Lenexa, Kansas, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 2 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- professional wrestler / boxer / American football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Shawnee Mission North High School
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.