WWE: Finn Balor - torn labrum, vacates Universal Title, surgery

[NewAgeOutlaw]

Bret Hart was right! Seth should have used telekinesis to make Balor not throw his arm over the barricade while landing. He should have made Sting not be ancient and forced him to take the bump correctly.

And then he calls Joe's finish "deadly" because of the one guy who got hurt in an entire career of Joe using that move.

And it's absolutely nuts that Bret goes on about wrestling a physical style and never hurting anybody. When Bret was active the pace of the ring work was much slower and wrestlers weren't expected to do buckle bombs and small package drivers.

Am I supposed to be impressed that Bret never hurt anybody with a backbreaker or inverted atomic drop?

 

[Deen]

I kinda like Bret Harts new gimmick. He is just a bitter butthole about everything possible.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Well, he is mad at Samoa Joe because he injured a member of his family.

If anything, Bret has never been "objective". He has agendas.

 

[K Fleur]

There is nobody in the world that thinks more highly of Bret Hart's wrestling abilities than Bret Hart himself. And that's with him already being massively overrated in general.

 

[Emperoreddy]

I kinda like Bret Harts new gimmick. He is just a bitter butthole about everything possible.

New gimmick? Lol

 

[OmniSens]

Wow, I had no idea Balor was 35 years old. Christ... What took him so long to join the big times!

 

[GKJ]

Wow, I had no idea Balor was 35 years old. Christ... What took him so long to join the big times!

He hadn't felt his time in Japan ran its course. WWE had been trying to get him for years.

 

[Emperoreddy]

He was doing really well in Japan too. WWE paid up to get him, think it was the biggest NXT contract at that point.

I don't think he was ever supposed to be in NXT as long as he was. Older guys having success isn't unheard of. DDP started wrestling when he was in his 30s

 

[Kimi]

Indeed, he was awesome long before coming to WWE. He's NJPW's second longest reigning IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, second to only Liger. He's somewhere close to the top with the tag titles too. Won best of Super Juniors twice. The whole leader of the Bullet Club thing too. He was a top guy in Japan, he wasn't in any rush to join WWE.

And yeah, he was WWE's biggest signing for NXT. Only guys above him are Nakamura and maybe Joe.

 

[quoipourquoi]

And it's absolutely nuts that Bret goes on about wrestling a physical style and never hurting anybody. When Bret was active the pace of the ring work was much slower and wrestlers weren't expected to do buckle bombs and small package drivers.

Gee... do you think there might have been a reason for that?

 

[GKJ]

There would have been a significant butterfly effect to Balor coming over when they wanted him. No Bullet Club, who knows what that means for Styles, whether he came to WWE sooner, or stayed in TNA longer.

 

[Kimi]

Yeah, Japan would really change a lot if he wasn't there. It's not like Styles, Omega or anyone good wouldn't have had strong runs without him, but everything would be very different.

But it's not only Japan that changes. Bálor has made a ton of friends over the years who he's pulled to the WWE. Like he's the guy who got Ibushi and Dorada to sign for the CWC among others. He's been really great for recruiting people for HHH, if he goes to WWE earlier a lot of those might not be able to happen.