Finn Balor Credits WWE Hall Of Famer For Helping Key Aspect Of His Career

Finn Balor is grateful for some advice from a WWE Hall of Famer when it comes to promos. 

For more than a decade, Finn Balor has been a popular and hated WWE superstar who has accomplished a lot in the company.

Many people consider Balor to be one of the greatest NXT superstars of all time, and a lot of success on the main roster too.

When fans think about Balor’s career, they think about his incredible skill in the ring before his promos. That’s not to say that his promos are bad or anything like that, but he is one of those guys who is clearly better in the ring than on the microphone.

During his recent appearance on the What’s Your Story? With Stephanie McMahon podcast, Balor talked about how he’s a different kind of person compared to other WWE superstars, like Cody Rhodes.

“I think there’s different types of people in the world. Some people like to be the center of attention and like to have their voice heard or like to tell stories. I mean this with the greatest respect towards one of my colleagues Cody but I feel like, although we love wrestling, we’re very different personalities.

In a sense that when he enters a room he wants to be the center of attention and likes to entertain and likes to tell stories, where I would rather probably not even enter the room, and if I did I’d wanna just blend into the background a little bit and be an observer rather than a participant.”

Balro would go on to admit he shies away from public speaking.

“But it kind of contradicts everything when it comes to wrestling because wrestling is how I express myself and I feel like I express myself better physically with my performance than I do speaking.

So, that’s why I’ve kinda, especially in the past couple of years, shied away from doing media, podcasts, public speaking, everything. I love to wrestle and I know other things come with it, and I know if I perhaps invested more time in the speaking part, I know it would be better for my career but it’s just not something that I’m willing to give.”

“I don’t think it’s a problem, I feel like it’s one part of the job that I don’t excel at. But it’s one part of the job that I don’t necessarily want to excel at. I just want to be in the ring performing, in the back with the boys hanging out and do my job.”

Paul Heyman’s Advice Really Helped Finn Balor

When you are admittedly not a strong talker like Finn Balor admits, it’s a good thing when you have the legendary WWE Hall of Famer Paul Heyman around.

As he continued talking about promos, Finn Balor credited the “Wise Man” Heyman for some incredible advice that has helped Balor a lot.

“One thing I’ve kind of only started to learn recently, and I’ll credit Paul Heyman with this, because he said, ‘You’ve got to treat your promos like your matches. You’re not nervous going into your match, you don’t know every move you’re gonna do, you’re just flowing a you’re in that state. But your promos you’re trying to memorize every word. That’s not how you execute your matches, so that’s not how you should execute your promos.’

“So recently I’ve been taking more of that on board. Not having it like, I need it to sound exactly like this word for word, just a couple of bullet points, and that’s really helped a lot.”

Finn Balor remains on the Raw brand while continuing to have issues with his former allies in The Judgment Day.

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