10 WWE Stars We Expected To Be World Champion By Now
7. Finn Bálor
There was an odd catharsis about Roman Reigns' Universal Title defence against Finn Bálor on the post-SummerSlam edition of Monday Night Raw.
The 2016 injury that robbed Bálor of the belt 24 hours after winning it didn't have as big an impact as the actual time he missed. By the time he returned in 2017, the company seemed all too happy to move on as if his sudden ascension hadn't ever really happened. Glimpses of the big time were just that - strained views on a promised land he seemed destined to drift further from.
It's something he may never recover from in fact. Roman beating Finn clean as a sheet on the aforementioned Raw at long last put to bed the injustice of his original disappointment, but didn't exactly propel back into the conversation as the show went off the air.
Bálor either is or isn't a megastar to Vince McMahon, but until the increasingly senile Chairman actually makes up his mind, the fluctuation between 'Big Star' and 'Tiny Irishman' will continue to fail Finn and frustrate fans.