Finn Balor discusses using The Demon in WWE.
The Demon King is a part of Finn Balor’s character that he brings out for his biggest matches, last being used back at WrestleMania 39 when Edge faced off with Balor inside Hell In A Cell.
On WWE After The Bell, Balor admits that he believes the character reached a point in WWE where it became a crutch.
“It became a crutch. I’ll hold my hand up and say I’m guilty of trying to please too many people and not please myself. A lot of the stuff that I was doing in WWE, in general, was a result of trying to please too many people, whether it be the creative team, the writing team, the merchandise team, the promotions team, the tickets team, I’m not really pleasing myself. When the demon character was conceived in Japan, it was something that didn’t really have a rhyme or reason, it was something that I felt I could express myself and unlock myself better in the moment when I needed to go into that zone. When you bring it into the WWE universe, it has to become something, or it has to have a reason why this happens, why this transformation happens and I feel like the more you try to explain something, the less sense it actually makes and the more ridiculous it becomes. For me, that was the crutch I felt. It wasn’t necessarily the process of the paint or the creative trying to execute a different unique design every time, it was trying to keep so many happy and not myself and why I was doing it in the first place,”
Finn Balor
Balor would not use the Demon in his World Heavyweight Title clash with Finn Balor at Money In The Bank as he lost to Seth Rollins after Damian Priest provided a momentary distraction.
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