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#4 Finn Balor continues to be completely directionless

finn balor miztourage — The Miztourage beat up Finn Balor before his match with Axel

Continuing the trend, WWE is going to stick with the plan of not really doing much while waiting to start the build in earnest to the Royal Rumble. Finn Balor is just going to be another guy in the Rumble match come January anyway, so what is there to do with him? I mean, I could come up with plenty of ideas, none of which have anything to do with him wrestling Miz’ lackeys, but that’s beside the point. Now that they are likely to make the Universal Title match into a triple threat, why not have Finn challenge the three monsters and make it a four-way? He still has never received his rematch for the title, and he has a score to settle with Kane.

In any event, that won’t happen, and nothing important involving him will happen either. He’ll probably end up wrestling Curt Hawkins, or maybe both Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas in a handicap match.

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