Finn Bálor Surprised Fellow Irish Fighter Mick Conlan With His Own WWE Universal Championship

Finn Bálor is a busy man, especially with it being the height of WrestleMania season, but the leader of the Bálor Club took a little bit of time out on Thursday to surprise a fellow countryman with a gift.

Bálor is slated to take on both the Miz and Seth Rollins in less than a month in a triple threat match at WrestleMania 34 for the Intercontinental title. So one would think between his busy road schedule and other scheduled promo tours to promote WrestleMania that Bálor would have little time to do anything else. Think again!

Bálor showed up to Madison Square Garden to gift fellow Irishman Michael “Mick” Conlan, who is fighting Saturday night, with a sweet replica belt. Top-flight boxers are known for not having enough belts as it is, you know. Bálor is slated to be on the MSG card the night on Friday night, so it makes sense that he was around the New York area.

After the Conlan press conference, Bálor gifted the young boxer a replica WWE Universal Champion. In return, Bálor recieved a pair of autographed boxing gloves from the young boxer. (Yes, it is very bizarre that the first-ever Universal Champion, who never lost the title and to this day has never received a single rematch for the title he never lost over a year and a half ago is just hanging out and dishing out replicas of his long-lost championship, but we’ll set that aside for the time being.)

This was not the first time that the two have crossed paths as the prior night both were in the Garden to take in a New York Rangers game as well.

Look how happy those lads are with their new Christmas jumpers! At the end of the day, it’s a great showing of solidarity for both fighters who are growing in popularity. Depending on the result, it’s fair to wonder if Conlan might make an appearance at WrestleMania in a few weeks as well. WrestleMania needs celebrities, you know.