Finn Bálor: THE DEMON, Universal Championship, Judgment Day, Bullet Club & Why He's Better Than Ever
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Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Vliet!
Thank you so much for doing this. Yeah, it's been a long time coming. It has been. We had a very brief conversation maybe three years ago. It feels like longer. It feels like forever. I think it was like a WrestleMania, like... SummerSlam, something like that. Something like that, yeah. Yeah, and you'd probably done 400 interviews that day. We popped in for three minutes or something like that. Yeah. So I'm glad we get to chat with you for a little bit longer today. Yeah, me too. It was cool when you reposted this photo that I posted of you in 2016 and you in 2026. And I said that the photos look like they were like 12 minutes apart. Like you haven't aged.
Well, let me tell you, those 10 years. have been a lot.
I've done a lot.
You've done a lot? Yeah.
It doesn't look like it. You look the same.
Well, thank you, I guess.
What's the secret to not aging?
Consistency, I think. Like, I just do the same stuff every day. Like, nutrition's the same. Training's pretty much the same. And try to live, like, a stress-free life. And I'm happy. Like, yeah, I'm doing what I love. I think that's the big thing. You know? I think aging is probably mainly down to stress. I can't imagine anything worse than the stress of going to a job every day that you hate. So I love my job for the last 25 years, so I'm very, very lucky.
Have you worked a quote-unquote real job ever?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I started my first job when I was 16. I worked at a cleaning contracting company where, you know, floor buffers. Yes. So my uncle worked at the maintenance department and that, so he got me a job in there where all the floor buffers that were broken, they get broken a lot because people buff over the cable. And they cut the cable. So I would have to like replace the cables and like troubleshoot all the electrics in it. Of course, I electrocuted myself, which in Europe is like 220 voltage. So that hurt. From there, I got a job at Tesco's supermarket, like Walmart or something. Yeah, yeah. And from there, I worked in the family business, which is the railway in Ireland. So my family worked on the railway.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, so I sold train tickets, done the announcements for the trains. Ladies and gentlemen, the next train to Belfast is at 11 o'clock on Platform 2. Please board in 10 minutes.
When did wrestling become your full-time job?
Became full-time when I was 24. Okay. Yeah, so for the first six years, I was kind of like dipping in and out between jobs and wrestling. I was very lucky that when I was working in the railway, because my dad worked there too, a lot of people kind of understood that I had this wrestling passion and they kind of were very flexible with giving me some days off and stuff like that. So I'm very grateful to the guys that I worked with and I still keep in touch with them.
Was it also free train tickets to go wherever you needed to go?
Yeah. And actually you could take free train tickets all around Europe. Oh, that's great. And then there was also like a certain amount of passes that you could take the ferry, which is like from Ireland to England. So like I could travel from Ireland to England and then take the train and then go to train and pretty much for free. So that's how I was able to kind of fund my training, you know?
You had a one-word caption on that photo. It was consistency. And you talked about it's like eating right and it's like putting in the work and all of those different things. What's a day of eating look like for you?
Uh, right now. So like, there's this, uh, huge belief that like, I'm a no carbs guy. And I was for a long time from like 2010 when I met one of my good friends, John Anderson, who I wrestle with in new Japan. He said, brother, you got to go on no carbs if you want to take it to the next level. So I went on no carbs from like 2010 to about 2022. No carbs. pretty much pretty much keto so fats yeah yeah yeah and then so i was doing that for a long time and then myself and chad gable are best buddies and i think we're in like the run-up to a mania or something and you know everyone's doing this mania prep every year you know and i just would always do everything the same all the time like i was you're like i'm always shredded what
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:45
2
How did Finn Balor go from jobs in Ireland to becoming a full-time pro wrestler?
5:45–14:36
3
What does Finn Balor eat and train like to stay in peak wrestling condition?
14:36–47:51
4
How did signing with WWE and training at the Performance Center change Finn’s in-ring style?
47:51–1:17:14
5
What really happened when Finn won the Universal Championship and injured his shoulder at SummerSlam?
1:17:14–1:28:58
Speakers
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