Seth Rollins Names Dream WrestleMania 41 Opponent
A dream opponent for Seth Rollins at WrestleMania is somebody he has already faced in the past.
The WWE Royal Rumble match was won by Jey Uso while Seth Rollins was involved in perhaps the most controversial part of the match.
Near the end of Men’s Royal Rumble, Rollins was fighting with former ally Roman Reigns by the ropes. Reigns nearly dumped Rollins out of the ring, but Rollins held on until CM Punk showed up to dump Reigns and Rollins out of the ring to the floor.
While Punk was celebrating his double elimination, Logan Paul showed up behind Punk and dumped the former WWE Champion.
After Rollins, Reigns, and Punk were eliminated, Reigns was furious with Punk about it while Rollins hit The Stomp on Reigns on the floor. Rollins also fought with Punk and hit Punk with a superkick. That was followed by Rollins giving Reigns The Stomp onto the steel steps.
The attack by Rollins led to WWE saying that Reigns was injured although it was just a storyline to explain Reigns being off television for the next month.
Seth Rollins Focused On Winning WWE Championship At WrestleMania 41
For the wrestlers that didn’t win the Royal Rumble and guarantee a WWE or World Title match at WrestleMania 41, the other path to championship gold at WrestleMania is by winning Elimination Chamber.
John Cena is already in the Men’s Elimination Chamber match while CM Punk qualified after beating Sami Zayn on Raw. Logan Paul will face Rey Mysterio for another spot in the match. As for Seth Rollins, he has a match against Finn Balor for a spot in the Chamber match.
When it comes to WrestleMania 41, Seth Rollins is focused on winning the Elimination Chamber and then challenging for the WWE Championship held by Cody Rhodes. However, Jey Uso hasn’t confirmed he is officially going after the World Heavyweight Title held by GUNTHER yet.
During an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, Seth Rollins spoke about his path to WrestleMania 41.
“In a perfect world, I’m challenging for one of the world championships. Whether that’s Gunther or Cody Rhodes…Jey Uso won the Royal Rumble. When you win the Royal Rumble in our world, you get the opportunity to challenge a champion at WrestleMania. Whether that’s Cody Rhodes or Gunther, who’s our champion on Monday Night Raw, Cody is the champion on SmackDown, the winner of the Elimination Chamber generally gets the opportunity to challenge the leftover champion, whoever hasn’t been selected. I don’t know which Jey’s gonna swing. It could be Gunther, could be Cody.
I personally would love to get into the Elimination Chamber. I got a qualifying match coming up here in a couple weeks on Monday Night Raw on Netflix. Get into the Chamber, stomp CM Punk’s head into the mat, eliminate everybody in that chamber, John Cena included, go to WrestleMania, and my dream opponent is Cody Rhodes for that title.
Cody is a guy that, when he came back to WWE, we had a series of matches. He won all of them, three in a row. I lost all of them to Cody Rhodes. I helped Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania last year win the WWE Championship. I think it would be very poetic if I was able to take the WWE Championship from Cody Rhodes this year at WrestleMania.
So that’s my perfect plan. That’s what I’d love to see happen. Lots of variables at play, so we’ll see how it goes.”
Nothing is set in stone yet, but the rumor is that Seth Rollins will be against Roman Reigns and CM Punk in a triple threat grudge match. As WWE fans know, plans can and will change at any time, especially during WrestleMania season.