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Finn "Prince Devitt" Bálor Thread (Raw Spoilers ahoy!)

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    #452
    leggo
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    Part 2 of our interview (including WWE talk).


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    #453
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    Thanks for that leggo. Enjoyed it.

    In WWE he'll be more humble than Bryan:
    he wants to be a gardener working in trees up the mountains!


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    #454
    Pentecost
    Registered Users Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭Pentecost


    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    Thanks for that leggo. Enjoyed it.

    In WWE he'll be more humble than Bryan:
    he wants to be a gardener working in trees up the mountains!

    That sounds like a terrible gimmick..


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    #455
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    Pentecost wrote: »
    That sounds like a terrible gimmick..
    He's a man's man... A real man's man.


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    #456
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


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    Best of luck on the Space mission, Fergal.

    Glad you covered Becky Lynch. On the carefully crafted Irish gimmick. You can hear a version of it at the 1min 30sec mark here:


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    #457
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    Devitt tweeted this

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    He probabpy should've just posted it here himself :pac:


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    #458
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    He probabpy should've just posted it here himself :pac:

    Or in the Becky Lynch thread post-Becklash.


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    #459
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Forgot to buy Powerslam this weekend. Did Devitt say anything notable in his Powerslam interview?


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    #460
    Agent Coulson
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    rovert wrote: »
    Forgot to buy Powerslam this weekend. Did Devitt say anything notable in his Powerslam interview?

    5 page interview but I read it drunk on friday. I will have to reread it tonight or tomorrow.

    But he kept the cards close to his chest. Number of offers, New he could not grow anymore in NJPW.


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    #461
    rovert
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    Devitt's Twitter continues to be top drawer. Visiting WWF New York back in the day:

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    Prince Durst!


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    #462
    rovert
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    Devitt is Bane at the Rev Pro show tonight:

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    #463
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    Gonna be such an anti-climax when he debuts at Full Sail in a green singlet.


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    #464
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    Gonna be such an anti-climax when he debuts at Full Sail in a green singlet.

    They would never put him a singlet. Given his abs and his overall body type. The green well yeah.


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    #465
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    rovert wrote: »
    They would never put him a singlet. Given his abs and his overall body type. The green well yeah.

    It's on my shortlist of things WWE could do to rile up the internet!

    (I'm sure they probably won't be putting him in a singlet).


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    #466
    rovert
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    Ape Lincoln wrote: »
    It's on my shortlist of things WWE could do to rile up the internet!

    (I'm sure they probably won't be putting him in a singlet).

    They could bill him from Dublin instead of Wicklow:


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    #467
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    "County". Dublin tbh!


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    #468
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Sweet mother of God Devitt's entrance: http://instagram.com/p/pS9k2JOV8q/

    Then his departure bowing to the ring:
    http://instagram.com/p/pS-SHdOV9N/


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    #469
    mrkiscool2
    Registered Users Posts: 5,159 ✭✭✭mrkiscool2


    rovert wrote: »
    Sweet mother of God Devitt's entrance: http://instagram.com/p/pS9k2JOV8q/

    Then his departure bowing to the ring:
    http://instagram.com/p/pS-SHdOV9N/
    It's going to be so annoying when all of that is removed from him by the WWE. Like, I'm looking forward to him vs Kenta and Zayn and Steen and all those others in NXT/Main Roster. But all the same, I would much prefer for Devitt to have control over his gimmick than HHH or, god forbid, Vince.


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    #470
    carpothepunk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,475 ✭✭✭carpothepunk


    The paint isn't a gimmick. He was Devitt before it, he'll be Devitt after it.


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    #471
    rovert
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    carpothepunk wrote: »
    The paint isn't a gimmick. He was Devitt before it, he'll be Devitt after it.

    Yup. Big Show as the Showster and Charlie Hass as Stone Cold Steve Haastin didn't have that much of a shelf life either.


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    #472
    mrkiscool2
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    carpothepunk wrote: »
    The paint isn't a gimmick. He was Devitt before it, he'll be Devitt after it.
    I wasn't talking about the paint! Again, big follower of Devitt! Been a fan of his since 2009 when I started watching wrestling that wasn't just WWE and TNA. But WWE will mould him into what they want him to be. He's a great wrestler but the personality he had in Japan and on the indy's just isn't what WWE do so a lot of that will be changed.

    The body paint, as cool as it is, has only been around since January this year (seems longer I know but it's only 6 months) and I think it started out as an awesome entrance for NJPW and then turned into him having fun before he heads to WWE. Would I prefer to see the body paint come to WWE? Sure. But I'd much prefer for Devitt to have that no-nonsense kind of attitude in the WWE over anything. And I don't think that's going to happen unfortunately.


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    #473
    Moneymaker
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    It gets watered down when you do it all the time imo.

    Save it for Summerslam, WM etc.

    Presuming he gets hot in WWE obv!


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    #474
    Agent Coulson
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    He would only be allowed to use generic paint anyway in the WWE if they even allowed him to go that way which is highly unlikely anyway.

    There is no way the WWE would pay for the rights for him to paint himself as he has over the last few months.

    Disney & DC would want huge money and he just isn't that big of a name for them to pay it.


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    #475
    rovert
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    He quotes the application process in Powerslam magazine. I think for the spray on process they have in Japan it is like 3 hours. For the paint on process in the UK it is 4 or 5 hours. New Japan were able to afford painting him the expensive way and with stuff that does sweat off. Removal of it takes a couple of hours after too. WWE would have to source someone who can paint him up for each city they are in or employ one full time.


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    #476
    Eire-Dearg
    Registered Users Posts: 8,900 ✭✭✭Eire-Dearg


    Moneymaker wrote: »
    It gets watered down when you do it all the time imo.

    Save it for Summerslam, WM etc.

    Presuming he gets hot in WWE obv!

    This would be awesome.


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    #477
    jaykhunter
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 12,013 Mod ✭✭✭✭jaykhunter


    Rey Mysterio has been ripping off superheroes outfits for over a decade now, Devitt would be just fine with the paint. If they started making action figures of said outfits then it'd get messy. Otherwise it's akin to Bret Hart showing up on RAW in a Batman t-shirt.


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    #478
    Ape Lincoln
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ape Lincoln


    The portion of the Powerslam interview on the bodypaint.

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    The stuff in Japan took longer to put on and was harder to take off as it was alcohol-based. Elsewhere he's just used standard facepaint which smudges off when he sweats.


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    #479
    rovert
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,089 ✭✭✭✭rovert


    Devitt entrance from yesterday:



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    #480
    Jimmy Bottlehead
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    rovert wrote: »
    Devitt entrance from yesterday:


    Pretty sure that lad shot his load at 1:30.


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    #481
    duuuaaaane
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭duuuaaaane


    I flew over for the show last night. Was fantastic. Devitt & Adam Cole in the main event was superb. Devitt said before hand it was likely his last UK show. He took out a group of fans at one point, similar to the spot he did with Ibushi at this years Dome Show with the chair against the guardrail - the guardrail wasn't strong enough to keep them from landing ontop of fans under the rail.


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