WWE Raw star and the inaugural WWE Universal Heavyweight champion Finn Balor who is also a former two times WWE NXT champion recently talked about his disappointment for not getting featured in WrestleMania 38. He also explained why he needed to turn heel.
Finn Balor was a really impressive superstar outside of WWE where he was famously known as Prince Devitt. Since joining WWE he had been presented as a main event star in the NXT as he won the WWE next Championship two times in total. When he made his main roster debut in 2016 everybody thought he would be treated as a main event star in the main roster too.
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WWE had the same plans at first. He even became the first ever WWE Universal Champion. But after that, he kind of lost his push and he started to be treated as a mid card star. As WWE was failing to push him, they decided to send him back to the NXT once again where he became a star again. But after returning to main roster, his status did not change and he remained a mid card on the main roster.
He did not have any constant booking since returning to the main roster, and everybody thought this might be the end of Finn Balor in WWE. But for the first time in his WWE career, he turned he when he joined the Judgement Day and since then he is having a good time. He is winning matches, and we seriously hope he returned to the main event scene once again soon.
Finn Balor who is also a former two times WWE NXT champion recently spoke to the Gorilla Position where he talked about his disappointment for not getting featured in WrestleMania 38. He also explained why he needed to turn heel. He said;
“Yeah, of course. I’m a professional and I wanna wrestle. I feel like I’m one of the top performers in the business consistently over years and years and years, so I feel like I deserve to be on those shows. Especially my output with regards to live events and non-televised events, I’ll be on every show, so to be left off or snubbed off the biggest show of the year, especially when it’s two nights, yeah, that hurt.”
“I feel like, I’m sure it was to do with how I was performing and maybe I was a little monotonous, going through the motions with that kind of babyface version of Finn, but I feel reinvigorated recently, being able to do a true heel character, which I feel like I do much better than I do babyface and it’s something that I haven’t properly done in WWE either.
“We tried to do it in NXT, but when we lost the audience due to COVID, we had to kind of tweak the character and make it more of a tweener, but I’m enjoying being a true heel. I don’t really have to act. I’m just a pissed-off version of myself that I normally am. [laughs] Hungry Finn, but yeah, I’m enjoying it. I feel reinvigorated. I can wrestle a different style now in the ring, and I’m doing different. I feel refreshed so I’m glad to be doing this version.”
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