Happy Corbin has revealed a possible second career for life away from the squared circle and WWE.

Corbin has proved to be one of the most adaptable Superstars on the roster since his debut six years ago. The 37-year-old has gone from a lone wolf, to a constable, to a king, to a down on his luck ‘chump’ and now is loving life as Happy Corbin.

Speaking to Rick Ucchino for Bleav in Pro Wrestling the former United States champion discussed how much longer he wants to stay in wrestling and then revealed that once he hangs up his boots, he wants to star in a show on the Food Network.

“I’ve made some good buddies in the Food Network world. Chef Aaron May is one of my good buddies. He’s always on Guy’s Grocery Games. I want to have another five or ten years here in WWE, but eventually, like all athletes at some point, our body doesn’t keep up with our minds anymore. We may think we can go and I want to be a guy who withdraws at the appropriate time. I don’t want to be there too long.

“I don’t want to jeopardize — because I feel like I’ve got good stigmas about me other than everybody hates me, but that I’m good in the ring. I’m smooth, I have a creative moveset, I make things look as violent as possible, and those kinds of things. So I don’t want to be a step behind my mind physically. So I think, you know, in the next five or ten years, I’ll probably have reached that point.

Then I definitely want to get into that food world, whether it’s Food Network, or it’s my own YouTube stuff, or, you know, my buddy Aaron does a lot of stuff where he’s a guest, where he’s a celebrity sponsored cook.
“You know, we were talking about doing the Food and Wine Festival together in Connecticut, because we’re gonna go out there for WWE and raise some good money for Connor’s Cure, so I’m going to cook out there that so there’s a lot of really cool opportunities that food will bring when I’m done throwing people like Pat McAfee around in a ring.”

Happy’s switch to celebrity cooking comes as no surprise having previously confessed his love for grilling meat. A past time he revealed on a UK tour last September he takes ‘very seriously’ and has studied the best ways to get the best flavours from his meat.

For now, Corbin remains focussed on all things WWE and has a big date tomorrow night at SummerSlam. He’ll go one-on-one with Pat McAfee on Saturday night at WWE’s second-biggest show of the year, live from the Nissan Stadium in Nashville.