10 Booking Steps Leading Finn Bálor To WWE Title
1. Reinforcement
The issue here is that Bálor is not yet a definitive main event talent, having headlined just one pay-per-view at the climax of a long-term story arc demanding a level of inconsistency.
How many full-time WWE Superstars can truly refer to themselves as headliners? Roman Reigns is obviously The Guy. AJ Styles easily warrants the designation. Beyond that, the glass ceiling rematerialises as soon as it shatters. Seth Rollins, once deemed the Man in storylines, is now just another guy. Dean Ambrose briefly held the WWE Title through happenstance. He soon settled into a familiar midcard groove. Kevin Owens is in danger of becoming a punchline. He's an eclectic performer, which should serve him well in the WWE environment, but it doesn't. Not really. The former Prizefighter has been reduced to a coward, and the chicken-sh*t heel trope is dire. His physique will never convince WWE otherwise.
Finn Bálor, in this timeline, is a WWE Champion and headliner. Too often in recent in years are those roles mutually exclusive. To reinforce this premise, Bálor, in another brutal war, defeats Nakamura cleanly, again, in a TLC match. He isn't a chicken-sh*t heel, he is a sh*t-kicker - one whose demonic alter-ego remedies the inherent suspension of disbelief issue. Andrade Almas and Apollo Crews have the right and the motivation, respectively, to pad out the calendar ahead of WrestleMania 35.
Bálor elevated the profile of an entire wrestling organisation in an alien demographic. He has the potential to become an elite WWE headline act.