Finn Balor says he has never watched his 2016 SummerSlam match against Seth Rollins

Balor: “No.”

Van Vliet: “You’ve never watched that match!?”

Balor: “No, and you know what, I get like tagged in tweets daily of that spot, and I’ll like scroll away before I hit the wall. I don’t like seeing it.”

Van Vliet: “You don’t like seeing it, because it brings back a memory?”

Balor: “It’s just like, why dwell on the past? You should be looking forward, you can’t change the past, it happened. So what?”

Van Vliet: “When you won that match, in that match, on a scale of one to 10, what kind of pain are you in?”

Balor: “No pain, but I knew there was a big issue, and it actually came out like three more times in the match, because any time I lifted my arm to hit the ropes, it came out. I remember I got whipped to the buckle one time it came out. So I don’t know if I’ve ever told this story, and I’m not sure if I should, but I remember at one point in the match, so me and Seth, I was very lucky to be in there with Seth when it happened, because Seth is an absolute pro, and we were able to communicate, and I was able to tell him, hey, I’m hurt, so we were kind of calling the match on the fly and editing spots and changing spots and talking the whole time, so the match that we’d done wasn’t actually the match that we’d laid out.

I must give Seth credit, because there was a point, we were outside the ring and I was rolling him back into the ring, and I said, ‘Dude, I’m hurt. I don’t think I’m gonna be wrestling for a while. Do you want to switch to finish?’ And he said, ‘No, stick to the plan.’ I just rolled him back in, and we stuck to the plan. I often wonder what that would have done for my career if we had switched the finish.”

Van Vliet: “In what way?”

Balor: “Well, we’re still talking about this 10 years later, right? Everywhere I go, every interview I do, I get the question, ‘Hey, what would have happened if you hadn’t got injured because you were the champ?’ But if I’d got injured and lost and just went away for nine months, there’d be no like sympathy from the fans, there’d be no what ifs.”

Van Vliet: “The other what if in that match is if you change the finish, do you ever become WWE Champion?”

Balor: “I could have been let go six months later before I even came back. Who knows? One thing that does bug me is that some people say, ‘Oh, that guy’s injury prone.’ One major injury my whole career, 24 years, apart from a broken jaw, which is a complete accident.”