3. Ric Flair Says Roman Reigns Should’ve Beaten Finn Balor
During a recent edition of The Ric Flair Show, 2 time WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair discussed former NXT Champion Finn Balor defeating Roman Reigns in the main event of last week’s Raw. Below is what Flair said about the outcome:
“I thought Roman should have won. And I know Finn Bálor to say ‘hi’ only. I’m a big fan of Roman Reigns. And I’ll be honest with you: Finn Bálor reminds me of ‘The Dynamite Kid’. Does that make sense? They’re very similar in appearance, same kind of work, and, I mean, he’s a great performer. God, I’m certainly not taking anything away from his performance or the match, but I’m a fan of Roman Reigns, so I’m saying something that I’m partial about. I think Roman, to me, has one of the greatest looks ever in the professional wrestling business. He’s as handsome as can be. He speaks well. He got his self-confidence back. He has been through some ups and downs, which we all go through in life, but, I mean, I’m just a big fan of his. That doesn’t take anything away from Finn Bálor and where I think where I see Dolph against Dean Ambrose as being huge at SummerSlam, I see that as being a bigger match than to see Finn Bálor versus Seth Rollins. I just think Seth has got too much experience. And like I said before about Randy, Seth Rollins is the second Randy Orton. He’s that good.”
“If I’m looking at what’s going to draw money, what I would pay to see, I would pay to see Dolph against Ambrose before I’d pay to see Finn Bálor against Seth Rollins, so I think it’s phenomenal. I think Finn Bálor is great too. I just think you’ve got a legitimate heavyweight in Seth Rollins, a legitimate heavyweight in Roman Reigns, and I don’t think we’ll ever see the day, and I could be totally wrong, that a cruiserweight will ever main event a WrestleMania. And that’s what you have to look at, I think, in the total picture of the professional wrestling business. He’s of that cruiserweight size. I mean, if you look at the two of them side by side, he has got a great physique, gosh, but he’s smaller. Yeah, I don’t think he weighs 200 pounds.”
Only 3 Cruiserweight wrestlers have main evented WrestleMania till now: The Miz (WrestleMania 27), Daniel Bryan (WrestleMania 30) and Seth Rollins (WrestleMania 31, after cashing-in his Money in the Bank contract).
