Why WWE STILL Won't Push Finn Balor
Finn Bálor's been trapped in stasis so long that it's now almost impossible to see anything for him beyond his the spot he currently occupies on Raw, which of course is that of…well, what, exactly?
After falling short in a match dominated by Raw’s giants at the ‘Fall Classic’ he stumbled again in a virtual rematch the next night. Before you worry that he’s about to slip down the card quicker than he did off of Miz’ chest last Sunday, consider what platform it is he even has at this point.
His current career is a complete contradiction. In flowery terms it’s mysterious, maybe. Enigmatic, perhaps. But the truth belongs not in a Jeff Hardy promo but in the cold calculated reality of capitalism. WWE are the capitalist kings of a fiercely capitalistic industry in a world never more consumed by capitalism. But capitalism assumes control by confusion, and in WWE’s vision of the world - in their ‘universe’ - he’s the soul most lost and isolated. He takes the “big smiles out there” line so literally that it paradoxically becomes impossible to believe he’s actually happy to be there. As if that wasn’t a bad enough thing to think about most of the muddled midcard as it is.
Despite theoretically having the power to portray both, he’s neither a supernatural entity like The Undertaker, nor an everyman like Stone Cold Steve Austin.
He’s a jobber, like Finn Bálor. Save for those odd fleeting moments when he’s not.
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