Former WWE Universal Champion Finn Balor recently spoke with ESPN about returning to WWE TV on this past Monday’s edition of RAW and his shoulder injury. Here are the highlights.
On suffering a shoulder injury during his match with Seth Rollins at the 2016 WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view event:
“I kind of looked around and I thought, ‘Well, there’s two things that can happen here. You can tell the referee that you think you seriously hurt your shoulder and to stop the match, or you can get back in the ring and assess it in 30 seconds.’”
“I came 16 years to this point,” he said. “I’m not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.”
On his return on RAW:
“I don’t think you ever know,” said Balor. “It’s one of those things that I won’t know when I’m ready until I’m actually in the ring and doing it in front of people live. You can kind of run drills and practice, rehab behind closed doors as much as you can, but there’s nothing that simulates being in front of a live audience with live TV cameras. The injury was very fitting on my career … like it was meant to be. It gave me something to overcome again,” Balor said on Tuesday morning. “There was always an obstacle in the way, this was just another one. The challenge has been as much mental as it was physical. I feel now like I’ve come back not only physically stronger, but mentally as well.”
You can read the entire interview here.
