10 Wrestlers Fans Have No Idea What They're Truly Capable Of
2. Finn Bálor
Finn Bálor was protected from a clean loss against the man that WWE plans on promoting as the greatest of all time by coming back from the dead and being reincarnated as a fish who must still have had a bit of ocean water on him. That would explain his flopping movements and slip from the top turnbuckle at Extreme Rules.
So perhaps this entry doesn't work. He's great! A major, protected WWE star!
Fans of NXT - i.e. 62 year-olds who fell asleep in front of the telly - have seen the near-best of Bálor's in-ring work. As the 'Prinxe' character, Bálor was in awesome form, particularly at TakeOver: Vengeance Day opposite Pete Dunne. That match was an absolutely fantastic, immersive technical scrap in which every tiny moment of grappling intricacy meant something and informed what came next.
It was all rather undermined by the fact that Bálor played a cat. A literal feline. Seriously: he called himself a cat, and said that the mice scurried when he came back and that they should no longer play in his "kitty litter".
This was very silly, inadvertently funny, and miles removed from the ultra-cocky swagger of his Bullet Club peak, in which he was the cocksure picture of intimidation. Realistically, Finn Bálor Vs. Roman Reigns should have been the coolest programme WWE had penned in years and years. It wasn't.
But at least he was protected!