What if Finn Balor retires The Undertaker for good at WrestleMania 35?

#4. Finn Balor’s main event push isn’t a one off

Finn Balor's push into the world title picture may be more than an isolated angle.

Finn Balor challenging Brock Lesnar at the Royal Rumble came about abruptly enough for many fans to assume that WWE booked it on the fly due to Braun Strowman’s medical issues, to protect Strowman for a loss, or simply in the interest of putting on the better in-ring match. This logic would suggest Balor will lose and likely as not slink back to the upper mid-card going forward.

We’ll know Balor’s Royal Rumble fate soon enough, but if WWE books him opposite The Undertaker for WrestleMania, and all the more so if he were to actually win, it suggests that Balor main eventing isn’t a fluke at all.

On the contrary, even if Lesnar pins him decisively at the Rumble, there may very well be another Universal Championship program and even victory in Balor’s next few months. He could quite feasibly be positioned to challenge someone like Seth Rollins or Braun Strowman who might ultimately unseat Lesnar.