“They jumped on it” - Finn Balor on his most iconic WrestleMania entrance

While many fans expected Finn Balor to enter as The Demon at his first WrestleMania, he had something else more important in mind.

At WrestleMania 34 in New Orleans, Balor took the stage for his first WrestleMania with members of the LGBTQ+ community of New Orleans. The entrance featured everyone sporting Finn's iconic "Balor Club For Everyone" t-shirt.

The Judgment Day's Finn Balor recently sat down with WWE on BT Sport to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked how his WrestleMania 34 entrance came about, Balor said it was something important he wanted to use his platform for and that Triple H and Stephanie McMahon gave him the green light to do so.

"A lot of people were kinda like, you gotta definitely do The Demon at WrestleMania. It's your first WrestleMania; you got to do that entrance. I remember thinking, I think I got something that's cooler, like that's more important. I'd like to use my platform as a voice for change. And then it was about three weeks before Mania, and I brought it to Hunter and Stephanie, and they jumped on it straightaway and said 100% you can do that." [0:12 - 0:37]

"That was a more important moment than any 'Demon' entrance could have ever been."

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Finn Balor reveals the people onstage with him weren't extras and were from the LGBTQ+ community

While there were questions at the time about whether extras were used for Balor's entrance, he went on to confirm that wasn't the case.

Balor said Triple H and Stephanie McMahon helped get him in touch with the LGBTQ+ community in New Orleans to help make the entrance a reality.

"They helped me get in touch with the LGBTQ+ community in New Orleans, and they were actually members of the community from there. They weren't like extras or anything like that. It was legit," Finn Balor revealed. "Having them up on stage and obviously, for me, that was a more important moment than any Demon entrance could have ever been." [0:38 - 0:59]

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