8 injuries that changed the face of WWE

#5 Finn Balor's title-vacating injury

Balor would've had a monster push as a top star had this injury never occurred

Finn Balor currently holds the record for shortest time period for a wrestler to go from debuting on WWE’s main roster to becoming a world champion. It took Balor only 27 days to win the WWE Universal Championship, which was a sign that WWE’s higher-ups had big plans for the newly-created Universal Championship with Balor as its inaugural holder.

Sadly, those plans never materialized as Balor was injured in the opening moments of the match in which he won the Universal Championship itself. This caused WWE to completely scuttle all plans they had with Balor as champion and instead forced them to go with Kevin Owens as a heel champion instead.

To be quite honest, that title reign wasn’t that good; Owens looked weak more often than not, as WWE has a tendency to book heel champions as weak and underhanded instead of being dominant (with few exceptions).

If Balor was champion, the RAW world title picture would’ve looked completely different from how it actually was with Kevin Owens as champion.