If you love Finlay, time to start hating Johnny

[Dave Youell]

from Alvarez

There is, in fact, a fucking midget signed that will play Fit Finlay’s leprechaun sidekick. I know this sounds impossible to believe, particularly after the great Benoit/Finlay match on Smackdown. It makes sense when you know the back story. John Lauranitis has been very outspoken in recent months about Finlay becoming a worker again. In fact, he had been negative on the idea for about two years, ever since the subject was first broached. He said it wouldn’t work, Finlay would be more valuable as an agent, it would kill his credibility in that role, etc. It wasn’t until Finlay went directly to Vince McMahon that he ended up back on TV. Lauranitis complained left and right when the deal went down. Well, shock of all shocks, the Finlay experiment ended up being a success. So then a couple of weeks ago, perhaps on the flight to the UK, Lauranitis suddenly had AN IDEA. He went to Vince and said what if we have this little fellow, a leprechaun, who hangs out with Finlay and gets hit by attacking Finlay’s opponents, and sometimes accidentally messing things up for Finlay himself. Vince loved the idea and told him to find a midget. The rest is history..