Fergal Devitt (born 25 July 1981) is an Irish professional wrestler. As of May 2014, he is 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.
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. 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.
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. 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, and is an overall six-time Tag Team Champion in WWE.
Lees meer...25 juli 1981 was een zaterdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 205e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 44 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op vrijdag 25 juli 2025, 307 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zaterdag 25 juli 2026, in 57 dagen. Je hebt 16.378 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 393.072 uur, of ongeveer 23.584.370 minuten, of ongeveer 1.415.062.200 seconden.
Date: 26 July 1981
Reuters
The Pan-African News Agency will start operating next year, its controlling intergovernmental council decided yesterday. The Dakar-based agency, set up by the Organization of African Unity in April 1979, has been held up by lack of funds, qualified staff, communications and delays in ratification by member nations.
Date: 26 July 1981
International The cease-fire in southern Lebanon appeared to be holding, despite a Palestinian rocket attack on two towns in southern Lebanon held by Maj. Saad Haddad's Israeli-backed militia. A small but well organized guerrilla faction, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said it was responsible for the shelling, and said it would not take part in suspect cease-fire.'' The group's defiance raised the question whether Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, would be able to keep other guerrilla factions from violating the cease-fire. (Page 1, Col. 6.) The United States thanked three of the leaders involved in bringing about the cease-fire that ended 16 days of intense shelling on the Lebanese-Israeli border. State Department officials said that Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. had sent messages of ''appreciation and thanks'' to President Elias Sarkis of Lebanon, Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and Crown Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Yasir Arafat of the P.L.O. was omitted, because of a 1975 understanding with Israel that Washington would not deal directly with the P.L.O. (1:5.)
Date: 25 July 1981
By Tony Schwartz
Tony Schwartz
Television - or more specifically, television news - has begun making tenative efforts to investigate itself. This summer, WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned station in Chicago, presented a one-hour documentary, ''Watching the Watchdog,'' that promised to examine controversial techniques of reporting on television, including its own. Instead, the program became largely an indictment of ABC News and Geraldo Rivera, its controversial correspondent. ABC News responded with a one-hour rebuttal. The partisan crossfire may have diminished the impact of both efforts, but they at least suggested the possibility that self-examination was a worthy subject for television.
Date: 26 July 1981
Smith Barney Harris Upham Company, a securities and brokerage concern, has leased the entire 23d floor at 100 Broadway with more than 9,000 square feet of office space for 10 years at an aggregate of more than $2.5 million. Brokers: Marc G. Schauer, senior vice president, and Jean Gross of the Sylvan Lawrence Company and Robert F. Kiely, senior vice president of Helmsley-Spear Inc.
Date: 26 July 1981
The New York State Urban Develop-ment Corporation has extended by one month the deadline for submissions from developers for the 42d Street redevelopment project. The new deadline is Sept. 4.
Date: 26 July 1981
The 14-story office building at 53 Park Place has been sold by the Park Place-Dodge Corporation to 53 Park Place Realty Company, of which Marvin S. Winter is a principal, for $2.75 million. The 130,00-square-foot building occupies the blockfront on West Broadway between Park Place and Murray Streets. Brokers: Joseph O'Gara, senior vice president, and William Friedman, vice president, of Huberth & Huberth, and Stephen Freidus of Andover Realty.
Date: 26 July 1981
The Olin Corporation has leased 40,000 square feet of office space at 1290 Summer St. in Stamford for 10 years at an aggregate rent of more than $11 million. The company, which has its headquarters on Long Ridge Road in Stamford, is expanding. Brokers: Michael J. Lasalandra and Sherman B. Durfee of William Pitt Inc., of Stamford.
Date: 26 July 1981
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
After newspaper articles had disclosed that many imprisoned criminals were receiving monthly Social Security benefits - including David Berkowitz, the so-called Son of Sam killer in New York - President Jimmy Carter last October signed into law legislation restricting the benefits. The law applied only to prisoners convicted of felonies, and it banned payment to them of one type of Social Security: disability insurance.
Date: 26 July 1981
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
To help mark its 150th anniversary, the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York offered two years ago to give $1,500 scholarships to 150 babies born on the school's anniversary day, June 12, 1979. Parents were invited to apply.
Date: 26 July 1981
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
When the Board of Village Trustees in Morton Grove, Ill., voted last June 8 to ban both the sale and individual possession of handguns, officials of the Chicago suburb said they expected a constitutional battle with the National Rifle Association. ''A lawsuit was filed the very next day to enjoin the village from enforcing that law,'' notes Morton Grove's Corporation Counsel, Martin Ashman.
Date: 26 July 1981
By Richard Haitch
Richard Haitch
It could have been the climax to a taut crime movie: a $600,000 theft pulled off under the very noses of police guards. The money was in a safe, which was in a locked revenue room, which was watched at all times by police officers at New York City Transit Authority headquarters in Brooklyn.