Finn Balor In WWE - What Went Wrong?
Huge popularity hasn't brought Finn Balor the WWE success it should've.
A perennial fixture on any list of "most misused" WWE wrestlers to hit the internet over the past few years, Finn Balor is currently drowning in the vast swamp that is Raw's midcard, his main event window seemingly closed for good.
Allow us to preface by acknowledging that things could be worse. Having spent years working through his career's "art" phase in New Japan and on the European indies, the 37-year-old is now in full on "money" mode. He's likely earning more cash than ever before, working in a promotion with unparalleled global reach, for whom he makes television most weeks. This isn't a Mike Kanellis situation, but it is a disappointing one.
The wrestler formerly known was Prince Devitt arrived in WWE back in 2014. Though his signing wasn't met with the same level of celebration as AJ Styles or Shinsuke Nakamura, he was nonetheless one of Triple H's first big indie projects, as the WWE COO sought to rebuild NXT in his own ideals.
In the Irishman, he'd acquired someone who was not only coming off a hot NJPW run, but a performer partly responsible for the European indie explosion, and a charismatic in-ring marvel of immense creativity, whose elaborate entrances fast became viral hits. Both scenes lost a pivotal figurehead, and WWE looked to have gained one...
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