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2. WWE Are Teasing A Finn Bálor Heel Turn

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It's only a matter of time before either Finn Bálor or Seth Rollins turn heel, and the smart money is on the ever-smiling leader of the Bálor Club.

The evidence is rather glaring. He wants to be in the position Seth is in (Intercontinental Champion, apple of the WWE audience's eye etc), struck Rollins from behind after helping him dispose of The Miztourage and then grinned like the Cheshire Cat immediately afterwards.

That's hardly babyface behaviour, and it seems Finn's smile will soon be recognised by WWE's announcers as a condescending ploy to throw everyone off the scent. If handled correctly, it's a simple, solid story that may have the same impact on Bálor's ho-hum babyface run as a heel turn did for Shinsuke Nakamura over on SmackDown.

There's no argument left for Finn to make either. He lost at the Greatest Royal Rumble and again on Raw cleanly, so a turn to the dark side out of desperation would be easy to explain.

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