Finn Balor noted that he was hurt when he didn't make the cut for WrestleMania 38, but he admitted that he wasn't doing his best character work at the time.
Balor has previously discussed how he was "deeply hurt" when he wasn't included on the WrestleMania card. He also made it clear that he wants to be involved in the show in some capacity.
Speaking with Gorilla Position ahead of WWE Clash at the Castle, Balor was asked whether it hurt to get left off major events like WrestleMania. He responded by stating that he believes he deserves to be on these events. However, he noted that he might not have been doing his best work during his face run, leading into WrestleMania, which might have been a factor. Now, he feels reinvigorated through his work as a heel, and he's enjoying this chapter of his career.
“Yeah, of course. I’m a professional and I wanna wrestle. I feel like I’m one of the top performers in the business consistently over years and years and years, so I feel like I deserve to be on those shows. Especially my output with regards to live events and non-televised events, I’ll be on every show, so to be left off or snubbed off the biggest show of the year, especially when it’s two nights, yeah, that hurt. I feel like, I’m sure it was to do with how I was performing and maybe I was a little monotonous, going through the motions with that kind of babyface version of Finn, but I feel reinvigorated recently, being able to do a true heel character, which I feel like I do much better than I do babyface and it’s something that I haven’t properly done in WWE either. We tried to do it in NXT, but when we lost the audience due to COVID, we had to kind of tweak the character and make it more of a tweener, but I’m enjoying being a true heel. I don’t really have to act. I’m just a pissed-off version of myself that I normally am. [laughs] Hungry Finn, but yeah, I’m enjoying it. I feel reinvigorated. I can wrestle a different style now in the ring, and I’m doing different. I feel refreshed so I’m glad to be doing this version," Balor said.
Balor recently commented on the Good Brothers' potential return to WWE. You can see what he had to say by clicking here.
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