Finn Balor: My Story Doesn’t Need to Be Finished, It Needs to Be Completely Rewritten

Finn Balor knows he doesn’t have too many years in the business.

While speaking with Shakiel Mahjouri, Finn Balor reflected on the road to Elimination Chamber for his match against CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship in the United Center, home to the champion.

During the interview, Balor spoke about how seeing AJ Styles retire a couple of weeks ago made him realize that there is not a lot of time left in his career and how he needs to have it completely rewritten.

“Seeing him (AJ Styles) retire kind of made it bring it home to me that my days are numbered too. Because, you know, AJ’s been kind of an ever-present for me for the last 20, 25 years. So it kind of got me thinking about my story in the business and what I need to do, and there’s a lot of talk about ‘finishing the story’ in wrestling. But I feel like my story doesn’t need to be finished. It needs to be completely rewritten because I have this massive stain on my career from 10 years ago when I got hurt and I had to relinquish the Universal Championship…”

Balor would go on to fall short against Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. The last time he held a world championship on the main roster was when he was the inaugural Universal Champion.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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