{"id":334776,"date":"2026-05-14T22:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=334776"},"modified":"2026-05-14T22:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:11:47","slug":"finn-balors-first-wwe-name-was-nixed-for-being-too-rupaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/finn-balors-first-wwe-name-was-nixed-for-being-too-rupaul\/","title":{"rendered":"Finn Balor&#8217;s First WWE Name Was Nixed For Being Too RuPaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Finn Balor has develop into a household name due to his years on WWE TV, but an original name for Balor needed to be scrapped for being too \u2018RuPaul.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On a recent edition of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/62KRSsrkCysTTjsHaLpkQ9\">What\u2019s Your Story?<\/a>\u201d podcast, Balor recalled needing a brand new name after years of working as Prince Devitt. He said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><em>\u201cThe name Finn B\u00e1lor is predicated in mythology, because B\u00e1lor is the one-eyed demon king from Gaelic folklore, and Finn McCool\u2026 It\u2019s very much like David versus Goliath, where Finn McCool is the David on this story, and he slays the one-eyed demon. So I put the 2 together.\u201d<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Balor shared that he initially had plans for Rux to be a component of his WWE name, but the concept was shot down by Paul \u2018Triple H\u2019 Levesque. He said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b><em>\u201cI\u2019ve never said this to anyone else. One in every of those names \u2014 and Paul (Levesque) was especially leaning towards this name\u2013 was Liv. I can\u2019t remember other names that were on there. I had actually Rux (listed). Paul said, \u2018No, no, no. People will consider RuPaul.\u2019 Yeah, I remember him specifically saying that.\u201d<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n<p>When pressed by Stephanie McMahon, Balor had little knowledge of who RuPaul is, but was aware that they&#8217;re a drag performer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balor joined WWE in 2014 and has remained with the corporate ever since. He&#8217;s a former NXT, Universal, United States, Intercontinental, and Tag Team Champion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Finn B\u00e1lor makes his demonic WrestleMania entrance: WrestleMania 42 Sunday highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pj2kIx2UIlU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn Balor has develop into a household name due to his years on WWE TV, but an original name for Balor needed to be scrapped for being too \u2018RuPaul.\u2019 On a recent edition of the \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Story?\u201d podcast, Balor recalled needing a brand new name after years of working as Prince Devitt. He said,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[51722,15523,15511,51723,6221],"class_list":["post-334776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-balors","tag-finn","tag-nixed","tag-rupaul","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334779,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334776\/revisions\/334779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}