Bishop Dyer is adding another win to his resume, and this time it has nothing to do with professional wrestling.
The former WWE star, known to fans as Baron Corbin and currently competing in MLW as one half of tag team champions The Skyscrapers alongside Donovan Dijak, won gold at the Jiu Jitsu World League Florida XII tournament over the weekend.
Dyer, whose real name is Tom Pestock, shared the news on X with a characteristically confident message, even while sporting a fresh injury above his right eyebrow.
“A month off for the eye,” he said in the video. “Three days of training. What do we do? We still get gold! Add it to the collection.”
That collection is growing fast. A purple belt competitor, Dyer has been accumulating medals since December 2023, with gold and silver finishes across multiple events.
His biggest moment on the mats came in December 2025, when he won double gold at the International Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Federation Tampa International Open. Earlier this year, he followed that up with double gold at the IBJJF Pan-American Championships.
The road to that purple belt was a long one. Dyer first took up jiu-jitsu in 2009 during his time in the NFL with the Arizona Cardinals, earning his blue belt in Arizona. But when he shifted his focus to professional wrestling and joined WWE in 2012, the mats took a back seat.
“I stopped doing jiu-jitsu just because I was trying to make a new career starting from the bottom, you know, trying to do something special with WWE,” he explained on The Ariel Helwani Show.
He spent over a decade at blue belt before finally receiving his purple belt, a promotion that reignited his competitive fire. He now trains under renowned black belt Marcio Cruz at a gym in Tampa, Florida, where sessions are not casual affairs.
“Jiu-jitsu has kind of filled that void of giving me constant goals,” Dyer noted. “Obviously we have a really tough list of black belts at our gym, so when you go there, you go there especially on tournament nights or sparring nights where you’re going in there and you better be in shape and ready to go.”
Rolling alongside Cruz’s son and other high-level practitioners has sharpened his game considerably. He described the transition back into structured competition as energizing, particularly after departing WWE in November 2024 when his contract expired.
“I got my purple and just been moving up doing competitions through IBJJF and some Jiu-Jitsu World League,” he said. “It’s been a lot of fun.”
