5 Reasons Finn Balor Could (or should) Get Added to the Backlash IC Title Match

#1 This could be a generation-defining mid-card rivalry

This era-defining program began with a WrestleMania triple threat that continued at Backlash; Balor and Rollins have the potential to be this good (or better).

Eighteen years ago, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit first met in a WWE ring during a disappointing and rushed-for-time Triple Threat for WWE's midcard championships at WrestleMania 2000. The company kept their rivalry active into the spring, and it evolved into one of the defining midcard feuds of the Attitude Era.

Seth Rollins and Finn Balor have the in-ring skill, indie promotion pedigree, world traveller status, and over-the-top showmanship to be this generation's Benoit vs. Jericho.

This one is a gem anywhere on the card and needs to have a place at Backlash.

As we've mentioned, Balor has unfinished business with Rollins due to his oh-so-close ending in consecutive title matches, and the two have obvious chemistry as they showed in one of the best RAW broadcast television matches in years.

A lengthy feud coupled with a heel turn for one of its participants (Rollins works better as a heel, but fans have been clamoring for a return to Balor's villainous New Japan ways the entire time he's been floundering since his injury comeback) could make this a feud for the ages, but there's a danger that WWE simply moves on to other things without Balor being present in the Backlash match to continue the tension.

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