Talk of a WWE reunion for Tom Pestock, better known to wrestling fans as Baron Corbin, has picked up again while he is still working as Bishop Dyer on the independent scene. Dave Meltzer said on the latest edition of Wrestling Observer Radio that a return has been heavily discussed, and Sean Ross Sapp said someone floated the possibility to him two weeks ago.
Meltzer said, “I’ve not heard it’s a done deal, but I know it’s been talked about.” He added that it “might even be done,” while stressing that he had not had official confirmation. Pestock has not commented on the latest chatter, but his own public remarks last year made clear he was trying to leave the old character behind and build something new after WWE.
That push away from Baron Corbin came after WWE did not renew Pestock’s contract in November 2024, ending a 12-year run with the company. After becoming a free agent, he began wrestling on the independent circuit under the name Bishop Dyer and debuted for Major League Wrestling in April 2025. He is now one half of the MLW World Tag Team Champions with Dijak.
Pestock said last spring on Insight with Chris Van Vliet that he wanted a clean break from the persona that carried him through WWE. “I want to shed it all and see what I can create,” he said. He went further, suggesting that if he ever returns, it could be in a way that underlines how far he has moved from the old act: “When I come back, maybe a year from now in 2026 they go, ‘We want you in the Rumble as Baron Corbin.’ ‘He’s dead. Bishop Dyer is the guy.’ I think [Baron Corbin] is dead. There is no looking back.”
That leaves the story in a familiar wrestling place, with one foot in reinvention and the other in return rumors. Pestock has already established Bishop Dyer as more than a brief post-WWE alias, and his run in MLW shows he is still building a new lane even as WWE conversation circles back around him. If a reunion happens, the question will not be whether fans remember Baron Corbin. It will be whether WWE wants the old name back, or the reset Pestock says he already committed to leaving behind.
