Finn Balor has achieved a lot in his WWE career but has also faced challenges.
The Judgment Day faction has undergone various changes since being introduced, as it was initially led by Edge, who recruited Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley. Things turned around when Balor turned heel by kicking out Edge, and they added Dominik Mysterio. Now, it’s one of WWE’s top acts.
Speaking on What’s The Story, Balor noted that the two months before he turned heel by kicking out Edge of the Judgment Day faction in 2022 were a low point in his career.
Balor said, “I haven’t said this publicly, ever, but the two months before I turned heel was probably the lowest I’d been in my career with respect to investment level, the personal investment. I was just showing up. I was going, ‘Yeah, who do you want me to lose to today?’ It was just kind of the same sh*t that I’d been doing over and over again, and I was doing the same act for so long, and I just felt like I had so much more to give. But it wasn’t anyone’s fault. There were a lot of factors that led to this. One of them was COVID because COVID meant that my green card process got all f*cked up, and then, because of that, I had to go home to Ireland for two months right before WrestleMania, so then I was kind of out of the buildup to WrestleMania.”
Balor recalled being left off the Mania card because he had returned right before the event, leading to him questioning himself. He was on hiatus to work out his work visa, and it took longer than usual because of the backlog due to the pandemic.
Balor said, “We’re just throwing sh*t at the wall, and it was kind of Edge who was the one who said, ‘No, I want this guy. This guy—we’re not using him enough. I want him in Judgment Day,’ and that’s kind of where things started to turn, and then we went with the story of putting me and AJ (Styles) and Liv (Morgan) together as a little kind of faction just so I had someone to turn on. That was literally set up just for me to turn, and originally, I was supposed to turn on AJ, but then it all changed. I turned on Edge because I think someone got injured, and they needed to turn Edge back babyface or something like that. One domino falls, the whole stack goes.”
Balor also confirmed that he signed a new five-year deal with WWE earlier this year and talked about wanting to do a match with GUNTHER in this interview, which you can see here.
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