Finn Balor Calls His Parents After Raw Draft, New Balor T-Shirt, HHH Reacts to Draft Picks, WWE Performance Center Holding Draft Party (Photo)

July 19, 2016

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Finn Balor Calls His Parents After Raw Draft

Following his draft to WWE Raw tonight on Smackdown, NXT star Finn Balor Tweeted the following reaction noting he called his parents:

#wwedraft #raw pic.twitter.com/mXhQ7eGPPB

— Finn Bálor (@wwebalor) July 20, 2016

WWE already has a new main roster shirt available for Balor as seen below, and Triple H also reacted to the draft picks thus far:

Summon the Demon #FinnBalor #raw #WWEDraft https://t.co/qbcNEX06rM pic.twitter.com/wK45jOCign

— Finn Bálor (@wwebalor) July 20, 2016

The Man.

The Lunatic.

The Nature Girl.

The Phenomenal One.

And The Demon… #WWEDraft #SmackdownLive

— Triple H (@TripleH) July 20, 2016

WWE Performance Center Holding Draft Party

As seen below, the WWE Performance Center is holding a live draft party tonight:

Excitement and speculation abounds in the @WWE Performance Center at the #SmackDownLive #WWEDraft viewing party. pic.twitter.com/kTCjINdyix

— Austin Healy Aries (@AustinAries) July 19, 2016

The @wwenxt roster attentively awaits the start of the #WWEDraft! #SmackdownLive @tapout

A photo posted by WWE NXT (@wwenxt) on Jul 19, 2016 at 4:42pm PDT

Congratulations @wwebalor on being drafted to #Raw on #SmackdownLive

A photo posted by WWE NXT (@wwenxt) on Jul 19, 2016 at 5:22pm PDT

Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.

Nick attended New York University and graduated in 2001 with a degree in Drama.

Nick first entered the internet wrestling community back in 2004 when he became the co-host of The Voice of Wrestling Radio Show. From there, Nick made the transition from radio personality to editor when he began working with WrestleZone in 2008.

Nick is a member of two Off-Broadway theatre companies, Another Urban Riff, and the Drama Desk Award winning Godlight Theatre Company. Nick has appeared in over a dozen Off-Broadway plays since he moved to New York City, and has shot several short and feature length films. In 2010, he completed principle photography on a film titled "How to Score Your Life," which also features TNA Knockout ODB.

Inspiration in his life has come from many people including his family, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson, The Beatles, and of course, Lassie.