A recent episode of What Do You Wanna Talk About? with Cody Rhodes, podcast featured Finn Balor as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Balor sharing his thoughts about “the Demon character” which first took shape in New Japan Pro Wrestling whilst competing as Prince Devitt, where the darker, more elaborate presentation first took form. He later brought the character to WWE, developing it into the dramatic alter ego seen in some of his biggest NXT and main roster matches.
“Once I came to WWE, it kind of got muddled up a little bit, and there had to be a reason for why The Demon appeared. It all had to be storyline-based and advertised. And in my mind, it was always just a cool entrance. It was something that changed me into like, you know, Braveheart puts on the battle paint and he goes to war. And that’s the way it was for me.
But in WWE, it had to be, ‘Well, what made him turn into The Demon? He had to get beat up and beat down and pushed to the limit to then turn into this monster.’ So then it became the point where Finn wasn’t good enough. Only The Demon could win. So then Finn was lesser than The Demon, where they’re supposed to be the same.
So that was one issue I had with it. The other issue I had with it was it was always advertised, which I like it to be a surprise. Like, ‘Oh, sh*t, The Demon’s here.’ And it just comes out and kicks ass.”
The last time The Demon appeared on WWE television was at WrestleMania 39, when he fought Edge (AKA Adam Copeland) in a Hell in a Cell match, where the current superstar lost.
