Finn Balor says he was born to be a bad guy.
Balor has been on a reinvigorated run since joining the Judgement Day last year, turning heel for the first time on the WWE roster. At present, he is currently feuding with Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship and will have his match for the title at Money In The Bank tomorrow night.
In a new interview with WWE’s After The Bell podcast, Balor spoke highly of his current run in WWE.
“I feel like it’s reinvigorated me on a personal level. I don’t really wanna speak too much from a professional level, I haven’t really completed that stage of the journey yet. I feel personally that I’m back enjoying my work, I feel refreshed. I feel invigorated. I feel creative again, and it’s something that I haven’t really had the chance to fully explore this type of character on Raw or SmackDown. It’s something I wanted to really do on a second run in NXT, but when we lost interaction with the crowd, we kinda had to tweak and adjust course to change the character because of no audience in the arena. This is the version of the Prince that I wanted to deliver in NXT three years ago.”
“This has been the goal since I’ve first put on a pair of wrestling boots. I was born to be a heel and when I started this at eighteen years old, I was a heel for years upon years. It wasn’t till I came to NXT during my first run, that I started to learn or taught how to be a babyface and it was something that was very much a WWE directive, that’s how they saw me. That’s not really how I see myself, so it’s been very much an exploratory couple months for me, kinda getting back to what I feel I do best, or at least what makes me happiest in the ring. I don’t know if it’s what I do best, but it’s what I enjoy the most. I’ve really thrived personally in the last couple of months as well.”
Finn Balor
We will have to wait and see if Balor can topple Rollins and become the brand new World Heavyweight Champion.
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