Finn Balor will always be grateful to Edge for creating Judgement Day.
Speaking about his time working against Edge and his overall thoughts on Edge as a person and performer, Balor stated on the WWE After The Bell podcast that he will always thank Edge for creating the faction in the first place.
“I’ve been a huge admirer of Edge, not only as a performer but as a person for his whole career. We became close many, many years ago,” Finn recalled. “When he retired, I was personally disappointed for the fact that I’d thought I’d missed out on that opportunity to possibly someday share a ring with him. I always admired how he transitioned out of pro wrestling so gracefully, and I thought ‘If someday I’m gonna retire from this business, I wanna do it the same way Edge has done it.’ A lot of people don’t transition out of the business as gracefully or with as much dignity as he returned the first time, and for that, I respect and admire him. On top of that, for him to have the opportunity to come back, that spark that had been extinguished was reignited on the thought, ‘Oh, maybe this match will happen, maybe there is a possibility that I’ll get to share the ring with him.’
Fast forward three years, and all of the sudden, I’m almost in an eight-month program with someone I’ve looked up to for many many years, in and outside of the ring. Despite the rivalry or the disagreements or the fourteen staples, there’s still a mutual respect, certainly from my end, I hope from Edge’s end. He started something in the Judgment Day that has certainly had a profound impact on my career, Damian’s career, Rhea’s career, and Dominik’s career. If not just for him starting the Judgment Day, there’s a lot to be grateful to Edge for,”
Finn Balor
Edge is scheduled to return to WWE on the July 7th edition of Friday Night SmackDown, when he will appear on the Grayson Waller Effect.
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