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Finn Balor on Future Stars of NXT

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WWE.COM: Pivoting to NXT for a second, you had said for a long time you wanted to be a leader in that locker room and help guide it for as long as you could. Now that you’re transitioning to Raw, looking back, how do you think you left NXT versus how you found it?

BÁLOR: You know, it’s a very bittersweet moment. Going to NXT, obviously, the goal is to make it to Raw or SmackDown Live, and now that the opportunity came up to be on Raw and challenging Seth Rollins for this new WWE Universal Title, I’m kind of looking back and going, "Man, what about NXT?" I still miss the boys and I still very much feel a part of it.

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. There’s a lot of hungry up-and-coming talent in NXT that I’m sure will be more than willing to step in and fill my boots. Shinsuke Nakamura, obviously. Oney Lorcan, who I think has enormous potential to be not only an in-ring talent, but he’s a natural leader of the locker room. In the next couple of months, I think he’s going to be a real breakout star for NXT. Rich Swann is there as well; he’s a real good up-and-comer.

[There are also] the names people won’t have heard of, guys like Riddick Moss; he’s someone who started the same day as me at the Performance Center, but he was a transfer from football with no wrestling background. He has made incredible leaps and bounds, and he’s really a team player and will be a real locker room leader in the future. So, Finn will move on, but NXT is in good hands, you can rest assured.

http://www.wwe.com/shows/raw/article/finn-balor-debut-interview
Nakamura is an obvious one and he's already positioned as a major star for NXT. Nice to see him give the nod to Lorcan, Swann and Moss though too.
 
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Its a shame Swann got injured, I think his time was about to come.
 
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Oney "fucking" Lorcan? Don't get me wrong Biff Busick was great, but was never going to happen in NXT. They weren't going to let him use that name. Billed from Boston and I think it would make sense to have a name that somehow, in a way, uses that as creative part of his name. Oney Lorcan sounds like an Elf's name in Lord of the Rings, or perhaps a dwarfs name lost in the forest. Biff Busick is actually a great name. When I think of Boston certain names do come to mind. JFK, Malcom X, Bill Russell, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere, Larry Bird, Edgar Allen Poe, Crispus Attucks, Bobby Orr, Conan O' Brien, ****** Bulger, etc. There are plenty more, but I just wanted to make a point.

The WWE creative staff down at NXT could have come up with some other name suggestions. "The Boston Ripper" Malcom Bulger? "The Boston Fist" Bobby O'Brien. Just anything resembles a character who comes at you very hard. That's exactly his wrestling style and it's no secret. Biff Busick has a tough and rough ring style. The name should reflect that somehow in some form, or another. Oney Lorcan just doesn't sound tough to me. Unless he were to change it to Oney Bulger. "Boston's Right Hand Man" Oney Bulger.
 
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I can't wait till Balor haters come into this thread and start saying his opinion doesn't matter, not realizing that he has been wrestling for over a decade, mostly in a place known for an impeccable track record of developing their own stars in developmental from the ground up. Say what you will about Balor, but he has a strong mind for the business.
 
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Oney Lorcan has a couple of moves that Cesaro also uses and their wrestling styles are similar so that's a good shout by Balor, Swann is also an incredible talent who, if used right, can be as creative as R-Truth mic-wise and Riddick Moss & Nakamura goes without saying what they can deliver in-ring.

 
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