Finn Balor had a special pro-LGBTQ+ entrance at WWE WrestleMania 34.
Speaking with TNT Sports for a new interview, Balor recalled pitching the idea to Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On wanting to do the entrance: “I remember in the build-up to ‘Mania, I’d been asked it a lot. ‘Are you gonna do ‘The Demon’? Are we gonna do ‘The Demon’? How are we gonna do this?’ I remember having this idea to do this, and a lot of people were kind of, ‘Oh, you gotta’ definitely do The Demon, it’s WrestleMania. It’s your first WrestleMania. You gotta do that entrance.’ I remember thinking, ‘I think I got something that’s cooler, that’s more important, to use the platform as a voice for change.’”
On pitching it: “It was about three weeks before ‘Mania, and I brought it to Hunter [Triple H] and Stephanie [McMahon], and they jumped on it straight away and said, ‘100%, you can do that.’ They helped me get in touch with the LGBT+ community in New Orleans, and they [the people who appeared] were actually members of the community from there. They weren’t extras or anything like that. It was legit having them up on stage. For me, that was a more important moment than any Demon entrance could have ever been.”
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"That was a more important moment than any 'Demon' entrance could have ever been."
🏳️🌈 Flanked by members of the New Orleans LGBQT+ community, @FinnBalor discusses his iconic entrance at WrestleMania 34.#WhatWentDown pic.twitter.com/RLcqRg23qx
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