If you're going to learn about entrances from anyone, you might learn from the Undertaker.
— Finn Balor
When I came to NXT, it was very much a developmental brand.
I thrive under pressure.
I came up in the U.K., which is a very catch-as-catch-can style, and then I somehow ended up in Japan and spent eight years there learning strong style. I got to spend some time in Mexico learning the lucha libre style, and the WWE is a hybrid style of everything mixed together.
You can be a big fish in a small pond, but you're only going to be competing against people at that level.
I'm the sort of person with a very short attention span, and I lose interest in things very quickly.
I found, going to Japan, working in the dojos, brushing up on the fundamentals, that's where I really mastered what I was doing.
I spent two years at NXT and a lot of times questioned, 'When is this going to happen?' or 'Is this actually going to happen? Am I going to make it to 'Raw?''
That would be a dream match for me to see Finn Balor versus The Undertaker.
I came to WWE to be on 'WrestleMania' and to be in a 'WrestleMania' main event.
I try and look at the positives in every situation.
I always go back to my days in NXT and look at my feud with Samoa Joe. That was one of the best periods of growth for me.
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.
I'm not one for reading comments or reading what people say online because, generally, there's a lot of negativity.
I started playing soccer when I was 6 years old and started lifting weights when I was 16, so it's not like I never exercised.
The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.
Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.
Johnny Saint is someone who I studied as a kid.
It was a big gamble to come to WWE, and it was a big gamble to come to NXT. Honestly, the gamble paid off.
I heard Samoans have hard heads, but it turns out what Enzo Amore told me about Samoa Joe's head was true. His head is S-A-W-F-T.
As a kid growing up, I was a huge gamer - The NES, SuperNES, N64, GameCube - and I had a GameBoy, which went everywhere with me.
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they're gonna say, 'Oh my God, that's Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.'
I often find out, once people have trained, you can never really re-train. When you get trained, you learn to lock up; you learn a wrist lock and, okay, onto the next thing, onto the next thing. You never really go back to the fundamentals.
Wrestling has a funny way of regenerating itself, and I'm sure, in the past, a lot of people have asked questions about 'Who's going to replace Sami Zayn in the locker room?' or 'Who's going to replace Kevin Owens in the locker room?' People always step in.
Every child has played video games growing up and played WWE games. To be part of a video game, it's an unbelievable experience.
I'm very much in a mindset that I take myself out of anything that I'm not involved in.
A lot of people are under the impression that Finn Balor relies on the Demon King, but that is certainly not the case.
When you go out there, and you're in the ring, honestly, half the time you forget what city you're even in because you're so focused on what you're doing and the task at hand.
I'm not going to throw in the towel a moment earlier than I think I have to.
When I first broke in, I wanted to be the best technical wrestler on the planet.
It's a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you're consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.
The crowd down in Australia is always so energetic, some of the best crowds in the world to perform in front of.
It wasn't until later in my career that I really focused on the importance on making an entrance.
I'm very lucky to be working at NXT with coaches, especially Matt Bloom, who is open-minded and a great ribber.
I was six years old watching wrestling on TV. I was eight years old watching Ultimate Warrior run to the ring at WrestleMania. I was eighteen years old starting out on a journey in the U.K. wanting to be a professional wrestler.
Nobody thought Finn Balor would be in the WWE. Here I am.
I do enjoy a level of intensity that I bring when I'm the Demon, but it's a mindset that takes a couple of days to get into; it's not something I can do every day.
Just remember that when I went to New Japan, nobody knew who I was. And I've done okay.
I've got a pretty wild imagination, and a lot of times, I have to be reeled back in.
NXT is its own kind of animal, and you're never quite sure how much of that transfers over into WWE and into Monday Night Raw.
I'm proud to be the standard-bearer for NXT.
I don't really pay attention to the news or stuff like that or what's going on in politics.
I've been in opening matches of pay-per-views. I've been in main events of pay-per-views, and the same mentality is applied to both, and that is, 'To this point, this is the biggest match of my life, and I'm gonna go out there and give it everything I have.'
Balor Club is for everyone.
How I feel as a person and what I support as a person always remains the same, and that is continuing to support LGBT communities around the world.
I'm a big fan of seeing smaller guys vs. big men.
I quite like walking out in my sweet new Balor Club jacket, popping my collar and being Mr. Cool.
I can't speak of anything but greatness for Roman Reigns. He's one of the all-time greats.
