It’s no secret that skilled wrestling is just not ballet, and stars put their bodies on the road every show for fans’ entertainment. Sometimes, nevertheless, scary things occur that do not involve injuries contained in the ring. Finn Balor explained on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet” that he was blinded by his ‘Demon’ paint after wrestling a match against Andrade in Saudi Arabia.
Balor explained he was getting painted before going out, and said it didn’t feel normal. He asked what was different, and was told they couldn’t bring the traditional paint, on account of the alcohol in it.
“She goes, ‘Oh, no, but I even have an answer,'” he said. “If we use hairspray throughout you, it sort of sets it a bit of bit more.’ It’s like, ‘Okay, well you are the expert.'”
Balor said it was around 100 degrees, and the paint was barely hanging on by the point he got to the ring. He explained he didn’t realize there was an issue, because the bout went wonderful, until he was trying to observe a match backstage and he felt like every part looked smoky.
“It was just my eyes,” he said. “What had happened was the hairspray had bumped into my eyes and burnt my retinas. I went blind. I used to be essentially blind where I needed to be like… Linked by the fellows to be carried up the steps onto the charter. I could not see on the flight. We landed in Germany to refuel the plane. The doc had to go away the plane, go to a chemist, get like some special medicine to heal my eyes. We flew and we landed in San Francisco like 15 hours later and it was just beginning to unblur.”
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