Finn Bálor
Welcome to the Finn Bálor show, here on EBWF. Four matches, four wins. Not doing too bad, so far. But I’ve got a test coming up against me, this coming Monday I face off against one of EBWF’s finest, in The Miz. Now, the past couple of years have been a bit different. The Miz has done some amazing things here in EBWF and I can’t deny that. I can’t sit back and say he’s nothing because he isn’t, but this tournament means something, it means something different to me, the Bálor club and to the fans. Y’see, the Gateway Championship isn’t just an easy route to the world heavyweight championship, the Gateway championship is something which when held can be a signature. When held it can be looked upon as something bigger than what it is, if I held the EBWF gateway championship I would hold it until I was ready, until I feel I am world championship status, because although I know my in ring ability is up there, I am not the greatest, I can’t lie to you and say that I am, I can’t sit back and say like all of the others and say that I am the best in the world because I am not.
Can I be? Sure. Will I be? Who knows, that’s one of the questions I’ve got to find out for myself. The thing about The Bálor Club is, it’s a brotherhood, me and my friends and what we all have in common is we are great at what we do, but we’ve never said we’re the best, but we want to be and we will get there, I know it and we know it. I know this isn’t some humble brag that you want to hear on the eve of arguably one of my biggest matches to date but it’s something that needed to be addressed. I’m not saying I don’t deserve the Gateway Championship, I’ve thought tooth and nail to get here to EBWF, I’ve fought the likes of Christian Cage, Jungle Boy and Paul London, AJ Styles all of these great wrestlers I’ve thought and beaten on my path to where I am right now in EBWF, on the road to main event glory. I’ve main evented two different warfares.
Last PPV, the royal rumble, I was a late entrant, which meant I didn’t have time to make my mark, to show what I could do, everyone else had so much momentum which I didn’t have but I can promise you next year I won’t have that problem. Now let’s get to this coming Monday and my opponent, The Miz. Y’see, Miz you’ve done it, you’re an ex world champion, you’re doing great for yourself but this is where I come in, Finn Bálor, the future of EBWF. Now, I know I’m not the greatest talker in the world, like you I guess, but I do all my talking in between these ropes behind me, I am technical, I am charismatic, I am unpredictable. The thing is, Miz, we all know you don’t like to take risks when it comes to your wrestling and I understand that, you’re protective of yourself, you have a brand to protect and I get that, but if anything I am the complete opposite. I am reckless, I take risks, I put my body on the line for the things I want. It’s Finn Balor's time to show the world just what I am made of, this is my biggest match in EBWF so far and I know I keep saying that but every match is going to be my most important and my biggest match until I get to that World Championship match and I’ve never been more excited for it. Miz you’ve done it, you’re a 3-time World Champion, you’ve held the Gateway Championship, you’re a 6-time Intercontinental Champion, you’re a three time Tag Team Champion, you have been a part of tag teams and factions and you have been at the top of this company for so many years. I know you want this, I know this will be important to you, but ultimately I want this just that little bit more.
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15th March 2020 - One Hour before Warfare
Renee Young is standing in the center of the screen, she puts the mic up towards her mouth as she starts to speak.
Renee
Tonight we see the finalists of the EBWF Gateway/Breakout Championship Tournament go off against each other, Jungle Boy vs Raven and former Gateway and World Champion, The Miz facing off against the man joining me right now, Finn Bálor. Welcome Finn.
Finn Bálor
Nice to see you again, Renee.
Renee
Finn, tonight you face off against The Miz in the semi final of the tournament, what sets you apart in the competition compared to the other finalists?
Finn Bálor
Good question, Renee. I think, to be able to answer that question we need to look at my past. My profession, wrestling is loved the world over, we do this day in day out, entertaining millions upon millions of people every week, it’s entertainment, Renee, and so to be entertaining you need to change things every now and again, now, I don’t mean changing up myself so to speak, but change the landscape. In my honest opinion, EBWF fans have been getting a poor run of it recently, before The Royal Rumble you’ve had the same people in and around the company calling the shots, righting the wrongs, saving the day but it gets tiresome. Every business, every industry always needs fresh blood. What sets me apart from the rest? Well, I started off in the UK, learning catch wrestling, I watched American wrestling growing up but it was never how I did things, then I went from the UK and headed to Japan and started to take things from their Strong Style kind of wrestling, after that, I headed to Mexico where I worked on honing my craft in Lucha Libre, taking that back to Japan and mixing it with my already eclectic mix of Catch, Strong Style and now Lucha style, after Japan I headed west to America, where my already mixed style was changed further as I started to pick up things from there too. Y’see, this myriad of stylistic choices of mine are great and it's fun, y’know. I’ve been honing my craft for too many years for me not to be well deserved in this competition.
Renee
Finn, you’ll be facing the former four time World Champion tonight The Miz, are you nervous going into this match?
Finn
No, Renee, I don’t get nervous. I am excited though, as I was saying about my Wrestling style, The Miz does so many things right, he is the last of a dying breed and the fact he is still here, working hard and making waves throughout the industry shows he has a lot more heart than I thought. With heart he is committed and he wants to be the best, but do I have faith in me winning; of course I do. Y’see The Miz is calculating, manipulative and also a fine wrestler, something I haven’t seen in years, The Miz has a problem and that is that he is so intent on destroying people, character assassinations and he needs to relax, he can talk all he wants about me and The Bálor Club, I mean, wasn’t he in a couple of groups himself? What happened to them. The difference between The Miz’s groups and mine is that The Bálor Club is made up of people with the same ideals. We want to be the best versions of ourselves that we can be, we’re not obtuse that we don’t recognise we have growth to come, we aren’t stupid enough to think we’re the goats. We want to get better, we want to fight and to learn and yearn that tough love we’ve grown up with. We will get better, and this isn’t gonna be something that just goes just like that.
Renee
Finn, if you win tonight, you’ll be facing the winner of the earlier match of Raven and Jungle Boy. If Raven wins, you’ll be facing your stablemate in the final for the championship. How do you feel about that?
Finn
We are professionals, Renee. We do this, day in, day out. We fight, tooth and nail, scratch and claw, we travel the world see all these amazing places, but ultimately the end goal is simple, we fight, we wrestle and one becomes the victor. The same will happen if I get into the final, we will give one hell of a match and one of us will walk out with the Gateway Championship. Do I hope it is me, sure, but if it’s Raven, then hey, he’ll have one up against me, but firstly Renee, I need to get past the Miz. I don’t do if, buts and maybes, if my auntie had wheels she would have been a bike, but she’s not. I am facing The Miz tonight, I am going to beat The Miz tonight and I’m going to prove to the world that y’know, even The Miz has to lose sometimes.
Finn walked out of shot.
Renee
Well, that is all we have time for, catch us on Warfare coming up next.
