11 Ups & 1 Down From Last Night's WWE NXT (Oct 30)
7. Bálor Club(s Baby Seals)
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Under the glare of a single white hot spotlight, Finn Bálor returned to Full Sail with fire in his eyes, his belly and his message for Johnny Gargano and the rest of the waiting world.
On his Backstage appearance last Friday night, he teased the return of the "Prince" and this was merely an F-bomb short of the former Bullet Club leader acting at his evil worst.
Incinerating all of us d*cks who thought we knew everything, as well as the locker room in an NXT he's clearly become disgusted with the state of, Bálor tore up the smiling version of himself (and, tellingly, the Fiend he lost to at SummerSlam) with quiet rage before referring to heart-on-sleeve rival Gargano as "Johnny Watches Wrestling".
With Full Sail kept as dark and deadly as the man himself, this was sensory-tapping pleasure of the highest order. Bálor himself is clearly ready to inflict the pain, too.
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