{"id":6693,"date":"2026-02-27T17:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6693"},"modified":"2026-02-27T17:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T17:50:53","slug":"finn-balor-out-to-rewrite-narrative-vs-punk-at-wwe-elimination-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=6693","title":{"rendered":"Finn Balor out to rewrite narrative vs. Punk at WWE Elimination Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F02%2Ffinn-balor-wwe-cm-punk.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261772106794\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Finn B\u00e1lor is fed up with the WWE narrative that\u2019s followed him for a decade.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Balor, one of the hottest wrestlers in the world 10 years ago, became WWE\u2019s first Universal champion at SummerSlam 2016, only to relinquish the title the next day after suffering a shoulder injury in his match with Seth Rollins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old has never won world championship gold again and gets a chance to change that when he faces CM Punk for a second time for the World Heavyweight championship at Elimination Chamber at the United Center in Chicago on Saturday (7 p.m. ET, ESPN Unlimited).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before the big match, Balor took time for some Q&amp;A with The Post\u2019s Joseph Staszewski.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/sports\/finn-balor-out-to-rewrite-narrative-vs-punk-at-wwe-elimination-chamber\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn B\u00e1lor is fed up with the WWE narrative that\u2019s followed him for a decade.\u00a0\u00a0 Balor, one of the hottest wrestlers in the world 10 years&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}