Seth Rollins Gets Candid About Disastrous WWE Match
Seth Rollins was part of the most infamous WWE matches of all time, but what does he wish fans really knew about why it went so wrong?
The second season of WWE Unreal has dropped, giving fans a look behind the curtain at what really goes on in WWE. Much of the season focused on Seth Rollins’ apparent knee injury that led to the “ruse of the century” when he cashed in his Money In The Bank at SummerSlam to win the World Heavyweight Championship.
But there’s another match that Rollins wishes fans could have seen the backstage machinations for.
Speaking on the My Mom’s Basement podcast, Seth Rollins admitted he wishes cameras were rolling backstage before he got inside Hell In A Cell with The Fiend Bray Wyatt back in 2019. The match, despite being a no disqualification bout, ended in a no contest and was derided by both fans in the building and those watching at home.
Seth Rollins Defends Bray Wyatt
Rolins thinks that if fans saw what really went on, then they would have more empathy for the match and both competitors involved:
I wish they were there for the Hell In A Cell match with Bray Wyatt. I wish they were there for that whole weekend so they could really see what went down. That’s one of those where, there’s such a terrible connotation to that experience from an outside standpoint, and I just go no one really knows what happened there, and I can’t describe it to a point where it makes where people have a different feeling about it.
If you could have seen that, from start to finish, that week, all the way up to the end of that match, and the next day, I think people would have, I don’t know, appreciation, but a little more empathy maybe.
Rollins claimed he’s trying to defend the late Bray Wyatt – real name Windham Rotunda – because he can’t defend himself, and that the two stars really wanted to work together, just not with the circumstances surrounding that bout:
There are some places that one specifically for me, I can name and say it, mostly because it’s a defence for Windham [Rotunda], who’s not here to defend himself, and I know that experience really bothered him. He always wanted to be able to work with me, and vice versa, I wanted to work with him again, to be able to get a better shot at that, because we loved each other and working with each other.
But not, that scenario was so awful for both of us, and for him to never be able to get that, I can put that out there and say I wish we had an opportunity to show what happened there and then come back and do it better.