WWE news: Finn Balor admits he ‘just wasn’t happy on RAW and SmackDown’ and explains move back to NXT
Finn Balor made a triumphant return to NXT following their debut on the USA Network and he looks totally revitalised as a bad guy.
Balor was the first-ever Universal champion in the early days of his main roster run, but besides an Intercontinental title run in the middle, his three years on the main roster were very up and down.
Now, the Irishman is back in Orlando where he began his WWE journey and the 38-year-old insists that's where he wanted to be.
Speaking on Corey Graves' podcast, he even goes as far as to say he wasn't happy on the main roster.
“[The idea to return to NXT] came to be a couple of months ago. Things weren’t going kind of as smoothly – well, I don’t want to say ‘as smoothly’. I just wasn’t happy where I was at on RAW and SmackDown,” Balor admitted. “I had a conversation with Hunter, we pinged some ideas back and forth, I took a little time off and came back in NXT. It’s all been awesome since.”
“[…] everyone’s been through those times in their career, and everybody’s been through s–tty times in their lives. And I don’t want to say it was a s–tty time but it was a time that looking back now, I learned more than anything on those three years on RAW and SmackDown.”
He continued, “So, I wouldn’t necessarily change anything but I learned a lot from it and I can take that forward. I’ve still got another, I believe, like eight years left in me. Not a lot of people have been fortunate enough to have done what I’ve done so fast.”
You can hardly blame him given some of the booking he has endured over the past couple of years.
One has to wonder what his career would have been if he hand't have gotten injured when he won the Universal title.