While we pushed eventual champions Leicester City at the top of the Premier League table right up until the closing weeks of the 2015-16 season, the all-action Irish grappler, who became a Spurs fan when his brother introduced him to the club as a child, had a sustained spell at the top of the mountain in WWE’s NXT developmental territory before exploding onto the main WWE stage over the summer.
Drafted to the world-renowned Monday Night Raw show in July, the 35-year-old, who previously shone over a number of years wrestling in Japan, won two matches on his main roster debut to earn a shot at established main event star Seth Rollins at SummerSlam in Brooklyn, New York, with the winner crowned as the first ever WWE Universal Champion – the new top title on Raw.