Finn Balor Says Current Run Has ‘Reinvigorated Him’ On A Personal Level, ‘I Was Born To Be A Heel’

Finn Balor is riding high with his current run in WWE.

At the Money In The Bank premium live event, Finn Balor will challenge Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Championship. In recent weeks, Balor has stated how personal the match is to him and how he wants to beat Rollins to get back at him for disrespecting him back in 2016, when Balor was forced to vacate the Universal Championship.

Balor’s current run with the Judgment Day has been praised by many fans, with some fans saying that it’s some of the best work that ‘The Prince’ has ever done in WWE.

In a new interview with WWE’s After The Bell podcast, Balor spoke highly of his current run and noted that he’s wanted to have a run like this for quite a long time.

“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.”

Balor went on to elaborate, noting that he feels he’s a natural heel and that he doesn’t seem himself as a babyface, something that WWE has presented him as for a large portion of his run in the company.

“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.”

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Carmelo Hayes recently talked about getting to work with Balor and Seth Rollins. Fans can learn more here.

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