Kurt Angle on His Past With Finn Balor and Why He Wants to Face Him in WWE
WWE Raw GM Kurt Angle recently spoke with Metro in The UK and below is an interview excerpt:
We have to end this by asking about Finn Balor as you mentioned him there. What is it about him that makes you want to wrestle him so much?
I’ve known Finn for ten years because I was wrestling over in Japan when he was there. I remember him as this young kid with a Justin Bieber style haircut with the hair spinning all over his head.
When I came back to WWE, I didn’t even know he was the same person. He said hi to me a couple of months ago and I just said hi back and walked past him. He was like ‘you don’t remember me do you?’ and I was like you’re the kid from Japan!
What he’s been able to do over the past ten years is incredible, not just wrestling in the junior division in Japan to the heavyweight division, but bringing this character to life.
Finn Balor, the Demon. He has transcended himself to being one of the most popular wrestlers in the world, and I remember him as a cruiserweight in Japan. You can’t believe how blown away I am by him.
I know that he was main eventing a lot of shows in Japan before he came to the United States, and he went through the Dojo camp over there.
Wrestling Japanese style which is very stiff and he was able to survive it.
He’s on top of the world, one of the top three guys right now and he’s just started. Being able to do a program with him would be awesome.
I’m sure he dreamed of wrestling me back then, now I’m dreaming of wrestling him.
Cathy Kelley on Superstars Congratulating Samoa Joe
WWE has released the following video, featuring superstars, including non-WWE names such as Bully Ray and MVP, congratulating Samoa Joe on becoming the new #1 contender to the Universal Title:
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
