Since Finn Balor arrived in WWE, he’s been essentially two separate wrestlers. There is the day to day Balor, a crafty and talented professional wrestler who has won championships.
Then, there is The Demon – his darker persona, pulled out when he feels he needs an extra boost – or needs to prove a point. While it is always welcome when The Demon shows up – Balor feels that it has become a crutch for him in WWE.
Finn Balor Talks The Demon Persona Becoming A Crutch
While speaking on WWE After The Bell – Balor would speak about his Demon persona.
“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.”
The last time we saw The Demon in WWE was during the Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania 39, where he lost to Edge. Since then, Balor has focused on defining his regular persona – bringing a violent edge to the ring with his recent matches against Seth Rollins.
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