Finn Balor wants to rewrite his story.
The Judgment Day star spoke to SHAK Wrestling recently to talk about his upcoming World Championship match against CM Punk at tonight's Elimination Chamber PPV. Among other things, he was asked about the recent retirement of AJ Styles.
Finn Balor who joined the main roster the same year as AJ discussed how Styles' retirement made him think about his own career in the company, specifically his short Universal Title reign:
It kind of got me thinking about my story in the business, what I need to do. There's a lot of talk about, you know, 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 had to relinquish the Universal Championship.
I Need To Fix This: Finn Balor
The 44-year-old had a dream main roster debut, beating the likes of Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins on his way to becoming the Inaugural Universal Champion within a month of his first Raw appearance. He ended up suffering an unfortunate injury in his match with Rollins however, which forced him to relinquish the title only a day after winning it.
The former NJPW star claimed that he has been trying to remove the stain of the short title reign ever since and he has found some success in form of various singles and tag team accomplishments in the company. Until he wins the World Title one more time however, Finn Balor will not feel comfortable in his retirement:
AJ retiring kind of brought it to the forefront of my thoughts that like, 'hey, the clock's ticking' and I need to fix this quick, or I'm gonna be retiring with that stain, and I don't want to retire with that stain.
Balor's opponent CM Punk has also been doing media rounds to promote the upcoming show and he recently commented on the latest controversy involving Donald Trump. You can check out what he said here.
