10 Things We Learned From WWE's Finn Bálor: For Everyone
6. The Perfect Debut
Despite years and years of audience abuse thanks to the difficult position he was placed in by WWE's booking of babyface headliners, Roman Reigns almost always gets the highest praise from his peers. Reflecting on his remarkable 2016 Monday Night Raw debut, Finn Bálor's take was no different.
He said; “Roman Reigns was the perfect opponent to debut against - I learned not only a lot about myself, but about wrestling and how it’s supposed to be done in WWE”.
The subtext was clear in his comments - he was incredibly proud to be called up from NXT, but extensive experience wrestling everywhere had prepared him for the unique challenge WWE television competition presented. Indifferent to the potential ignorance towards his smaller stature, Bálor instead made everything bigger, broader and as bombastic as he was capable of with his ice cool subdued persona.
The Fiend emerging for his first major pay-per-view helped address it, but there's little else anybody including Finn himself remember as vividly as the moment that changed his entire career...