Finn Balor On Not Wanting WWE To Call Him Up From NXT, Possibly Working With Paul Heyman, More
- As heard above, WWE NXT Champion Finn Balor recently appeared on the PodNasty Wrestling Podcast to promote the NXT "Takeover: Brooklyn" event on August 22nd. Below are highlights:
Hitting his head on a ceiling panel during a recent NXT live event:
"I've been seeing stars, but I think they were actual stars after going through the ceiling. When I walked into the building, I looked at the ceiling and said 'that ceiling looks a little low, I better be careful later on.' But of course in the heat of the moment, that's the last thing I'm thinking about when I'm looking below on Solomon Crowe laying on the mat. So I jumped up, I was lucky it was a drop ceiling?it wasn't solid and I kind of popped through it?a little bit of dust went in my hair, I came crashing down. I think it looked a lot worse than it was, no one was hurt seriously and we all lived to fight another day."
His recent tease of working with Paul Heyman:
"I'm a big admirer of Paul, and I've had a lot of conversations with Paul about what we could do potentially in the future but it's all hypothetical at the moment. That was some incredible, incredible fan art that I'm very fortunate that people send me all the time and I like to publicize some of their work and that's literally all that was. A lot of people read into it their own way, and I apologize for that. But who knows, I will be in Brooklyn for NXT Takeover, I believe SummerSlam is in Brooklyn the next night, I believe Raw is in Brooklyn the next night so I'll be in Brooklyn. Who knows?"
Not wanting to go to the main roster:
"What we're doing at NXT right now is groundbreaking. It's revolutionary. For me, it's like a Renaissance period in wrestling, and I want to be involved in NXT, I don't want to go to the quote-unquote main roster, I don't want to get called up, so to speak, because I believe that we at NXT are building something together that is going to be looked back on in 10 years the same way that we looked back on the ECW period as being revolutionary at that time, and this is something that I want to be involved in."
Balor also talked about his upcoming match against Kevin Owens, the possibility of a Bullet Club stable in NXT and shared memories of the late "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.