Why Sickening WWE Attack Wasn’t Meant To Happen
Bronson Reed and Seth Rollins are on a collision course in WWE but now Reed has lifted the lid about the original plans for his gruesome attack on Rollins.
On the August 5th episode of WWE Raw, Seth Rollins and CM Punk came to face as the rivalry between the pair continues. However, they were soon interrupted by Drew McIntyre who appeared in the crowd to taunt Punk with the bracelet he stole at SummerSlam.
At the sight of yet more disrespect, Punk took off in pursuit of McIntyre, leaving Rollins in the ring. Not that he was on his own for long. Bronson Reed has made no secret of his frustration in recent weeks and decided it was time to make a point. Reed demolished Rollins, hitting him with a Death Valley Driver and a senton then six Tsunamis leaving him laid out and spitting up blood.
But that wasn’t exactly WWE’s plan.
WWE Fan’s Blood Lust Kept Bronson Reed’s Attack On Seth Rollins Going
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Bronson Reed discussed the attack and admitted he wasn’t supposed to nail Rollins with quite as many splashes from the top rope:
No [laughs]. I think it was supposed to be significantly less. Then the way that it turned out with Hunter’s vision, is it just was more and more and more. It was one of those things where you’re listening to the audience, you can just feel a change in the audience as I was doing it. I hit the first two, they’re sort of booing. It looks like that’s it, then I go out for the third one, people sort of like, what the hell’s going on here?
Then I go up for the fourth one, they can’t comprehend what’s happening. And by the fifth one, they’re chanting for more. There’s like blood lust amongst the crowd for someone that they love as well. They love Seth Rollins. I was glad that it actually ended up working where after the sixth one I left, and they still started chanting and singing his music that he comes out to, so that also worked.
Bronson Reed then revealed he let Seth Rollins know during the assault that more brutality was on its way:
As it’s happening. So it’s one of those things like, yeah, he has to be willing to be there and I have to be willing to be able to do more. But it had definitely worked out and made for such a great moment in television. I think I had so much buzz around that, and then people online as well saying they haven’t seen something like that in WWE for so long where you can take someone to just propel them in one night with just one segment. Not a match, nothing else, just that brutality.
Seth Rollins has issued a warning to Bronson Reed after making his WWE return on Raw. However, Rollins also seemed to set up conflicts with CM Punk and Jey Uso on the show.