WZ Forum Files #3: Just How Sweet Is Finn Balor?

From George Steele’s Barber.

I thought Finn Balor was that good when he started out on the main roster. Not based on anything I saw or more importantly felt but purely on the logic that WWE used by giving him a win over their perceived “#1 guy” and then giving him their new main title on their main show.

This was huge. Balor didn’t have to be built at all, he just was. Why? All I can figure is that WWE invested a lot of money in faux leather jackets and demon masks. Someone like Balor, and almost all WWE wrestlers, need to be built in WWE logic. This guy was given the ultimate push. Fans complain about Roman but the push Finn was given was down their throats and through both intestines.

Then he got hurt….

So now he has become a guy who is just being treated like normal. Like we are supposed to forget his earlier success or at a minimum believe it was basically a fluke. He is now doing the normal things a normal newish wrestler would do: competing up and down the card, helping others elevate, cutting vanilla promos, and just hanging around until something clicks or a spot opens up further up the card.

Which makes total sense. It just can’t sit well with Indy and NXT fans who want so much more for him or smarks like me who still think of him as this guy with a rocket strapped to his ass who only lost his momentum because he got hurt.

But is he good? I don’t know. WWE thought he was at one point. They may still think so but they haven’t done much since his return that clearly tells us what they think. He hasn’t shown me much outside a thrilling entrance and cool make up. Besides that he doesn’t feel like much more than Tony Nese with a nasally tone and an accent. His promos are drab. I can’t figure if he has an ounce of personality at all. He moves around the ring quickly some of the time but so do so many others in 2017. Is he a powerful small man? Kind of, I guess. I think jumping off the top rope with two feet on another man’s chest is kind of stupid.

In the end I just struggle to find opinions on the guy. Which is the worst opinion to have, I’m basically becoming apathetic. I’ve looked for what made him so worthy of his main roster push and haven’t found much to the point where I’m not really looking anymore. Hopefully that can be turned around.

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