10 WWE Stars We Aren't Allowed To Like

2. Finn Bálor

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In many ways, Finn Bálor is all things to all men.

He comes equipped with the striking and aerial game to pop the workrate set, and is superb at constructing a match, brick by brick, to peak at the blistering finish. That is a sorely underrated skill. Bálor has more abs than Stephanie McMahon has claims to the invention of women's wrestling, and a demonic alter-ego so epic that one appearance banished the depressing notion that he's just a guy to win and lose and lose and win in the midcard. He can sell action figures, he can credibly sell the leaden offence of boring f*cks like Baron Corbin, he sports the best bespoke pay-per-view wrestling attire, and even the "vanilla midget" crowd would pop big time at his dynamite "Shut the f*ck up. Don't tut me" Irish mobster New Japan patter.

Do you like Finn Bálor?

Tough t*tties!

He may be all things to all men, but only one man counts: Vince McMahon, and Vince McMahon sees him as a porcelain trinket he probably only pushed in the first place as a soft touch lesson to Roman Reigns: d*ck about with banned substances, Roman, and you'll handily defeat Rusev and then headline WrestleMania the following year.

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