Finn Bálor

Fergal Devitt (born 25 July 1981) is an Irish professional wrestler.

He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Finn Bálor.

He is a member of The Judgment Day stable and is one-half of the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Champions with stablemate Damian Priest in their second reign.

Under the Undisputed Tag Team Championship banner, this is his second reign with both the Raw Tag Team Championship and SmackDown Tag Team Championship, making him an overall four-time tag team champion in WWE.

Fergal Devitt was born on 25 July 1981 in Bray, County Wicklow, the son of Leonie and Fintan Devitt.

He has one older sibling and three younger siblings.

He attended St. Cronan's School in Bray.

Before deciding to become a professional wrestler, he played association football and Gaelic football.

While growing up, he enjoyed watching World of Sport and WWF (now WWE) shows and was a fan of The British Bulldogs, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Rick Rude, Savio Vega, and Koko B. Ware.

Devitt began his career in 2001, before becoming widely known for his tenure with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), under the ring name Prince Devitt.

Within the promotion, he is a three-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and six-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, having held the title twice with Minoru and four times with Ryusuke Taguchi.

After training at NWA UK Hammerlock, Devitt made his professional wrestling debut on 23 November 2001.

He quickly won the NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight Championship.

After graduating, his wrestling career started quickly, and he began touring Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

In mid-2002, Devitt, along with Paul Tracey, opened NWA Ireland, his own wrestling promotion based in Ireland.

The promotion soon became the sister group of NWA UK Hammerlock as both promoted under the NWA banner.

As part of NWA Ireland, Devitt trained future WWE competitor Becky Lynch, future European Heavyweight Champion and ICW Zero-G Champion Andy Roberts and future NXT Cruiserweight Champion Jordan Devlin.

On 8 October 2005, in Nashville, Tennessee, at the NWA 57th Anniversary Show, Devitt defeated Dru Onyx for his second British Commonwealth title.

After the match both participants were invited to the New Japan Inoki Dojo in Santa Monica, California, to train.

During late 2005, Devitt also began competing for the U.S.–based Millennium Wrestling Federation (MWF).

He made his debut in a triple threat match at Soul Survivor III on 5 November, challenging for the MWF Television Championship against the champion Eddie Edwards and R. J. Brewer.

He made his television debut on the November edition of MWF Ultra, in a match against Osiris.

After impressing many promoters and trainers, he was invited to train in New Japan's main dojo in Tokyo, where, in early 2006, he began training in the Japanese style of professional wrestling.

He lost the British Commonwealth Championship to Karl Anderson in March 2006.

The day after losing the British Commonwealth Championship, Devitt signed a contract with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) in March 2006.

In April 2006, he made his NJPW debut against El Samurai, using the ring name Prince Devitt.

Devitt later stated in an interview with PowerSlam Mag that New Japan renamed him Prince Devitt because nobody Japanese could pronounce his actual name.

He was originally going to be called King David until people started questioning why the 24-year-old would be a king already.

Eventually, Simon Inoki came up with the name Prince Devitt, which Devitt himself also preferred.

In June 2007, Devitt participated in a tournament for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) called "Reclaiming the Glory", which was to crown a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion.

The championship had been controlled by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) for several years, but in 2007 NWA had terminated its agreement with TNA.

In the first round, Devitt defeated Australian wrestler Mikey Nicholls, but lost in the second round to Bryan Danielson.

He is also a two-time winner of the Best of the Super Juniors tournament, having won in 2010 and 2013, as well as being a founding member and the original leader of the Bullet Club stable.

Through NJPW's working relationship with Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL), Devitt also wrestled there, becoming a one-time NWA World Historic Middleweight Champion.

He also wrestled for a number of independent promotions, becoming a one-time ICW Zero-G Champion, one-time RPW British Cruiserweight Champion and a two-time NWA British Commonwealth Heavyweight Champion.

Shortly after arriving on the main roster, Bálor became the first wrestler in WWE history to win a world title in their pay-per-view debut, the second ever Irish world champion in WWE (after Sheamus) as well as becoming the quickest wrestler in WWE history to win a world title at 27 days following his main roster debut by becoming the inaugural WWE Universal Champion at SummerSlam 2016.

Bálor is also a two-time Intercontinental Champion and a one-time United States Champion.

Bálor became a Grand Slam Champion on September 2, 2023, at Payback, winning the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship.

After signing with WWE's developmental system, NXT, and adopting his current ring name, Bálor won the NXT Championship, with his 292-day reign being the longest in the championship's history until March 2020.

Also during his time in NXT, Bálor became the first co-winner of the inaugural Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic with Samoa Joe.