Why WWE STILL Won't Push Finn Balor

Survivor Series was celebrated for match quality and the addressing of several key issues between the Raw and SmackDown Live superstars - particularly those towards the top of the card. The seismic changes to the show just five days earlier were borne out of necessity, but it proved the mother of invention as usual as Daniel Bryan and Charlotte Flair effortlessly upped their games to provide matches on par with the original expected entities featuring AJ Styles and Becky Lynch.

This showed some rare synergy between talent and office. The booking patterns week-to-week have been known to render characters impotent in 2018. Through no fault of her own, Charlotte had approached Roman Reigns-levels of disdain opposing Lynch because WWE’s transparent attempt to keep to their plans rather than change them had the stink of the author’s hand attached.

Bryan too had begun to inspire indifference. And part of that was merely mirroring from the audience - the ‘Yes!’ man had "fought for his dreams” but not his character. His win may have partly been a happy accident, but his heel turn was allegedly something he pushed.

Finn Bálor has the talent of all the aforementioned main eventers, but is he lacking the internal fire required to advance beyond the elimination match also-ran spot he’s occupied over the past two years?

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