“Retirement is just around the corner for me”: Finn Balor teases another heartbreak after John Cena and AJ Styles

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Ahead of this much-anticipated clash, Finn Balor talked about his retirement during an interview with Uncrowned. The Prince revealed that he got emotional after John Cena and AJ Styles’ retirements.

“Seeing John [Cena] retire was obviously very emotional. Seeing AJ retire … someone who’s had a similar path to me, was just that little bit older, a couple steps ahead of me — he was someone that I considered the benchmark of where I needed to be,” Balor said.

Balor added that after watching Styles retire, he realized that the time for him to hang up his wrestling boots was “just around the corner.” The Judgment Day star added that after his loss to CM Punk in January, he felt time was running out for him to right the wrong of his WWE Universal Championship reign a decade ago.

“Seeing him retire made me realize, ‘Oh, retirement is just around the corner for me, too.’ And you’ve still got this big stain on your career that everyone keeps asking you, ‘What if?”’ And in Belfast [in January], when I lost to Punk [for the World Heavyweight Title], I realized the time is running out, and you need to fix this quickly. So that’s what I’m trying to do. I need to right the wrong of what happened 10 years ago — not for me, but for everyone else,” he added. [H/T Uncrowned]

Finn Balor’s WWE Universal Championship reign ended abruptly

At SummerSlam 2016, Finn Balor locked horns with Seth Rollins for the brand new Universal Championship. The Prince made history on the show by becoming the first person to win this title.

However, things did not go as planned for him. After Balor won the title, WWE announced that he had sustained an injury, and a few hours later, it was confirmed that the star was expected to be out for months. Due to this setback, he had to relinquish the WWE Universal Championship within 24 hours of winning it.

It remains to be seen if Finn Balor will be able to redeem himself by winning the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Elimination Chamber.