– During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, WWE Superstar Seth Rollins discussed his career, working WrestleMania 40 with an injury, his WrestleMania 31 Money in the Bank cash-in, and more. Below are some highlights sent to us by Insight:
Seth Rollins o if he had any concerns about missing WrestleMania 40 due to his injury: “No, I just didn’t know what shape I was gonna be in by the time we got to WrestleMania.”
On the pain he was dealing with heading into WrestleMania 40: “At that point the pain wasn’t so bad. So the match with Jinder Mahal would have been in January. I had basically really sprained my MCL pretty bad and tore my meniscus. The meniscus tear was an older tear that I think got displaced. So I’d basically been wrestling on a torn meniscus for as long as I can remember but I had a kind of a mechanism to sort it out. Whenever I kind of dislodged it, it put the meniscus into a different position in my knee. I don’t need to get into the anatomy of all that, but basically it was really painful when I would do specific things. So I just had to be smart. So I took, obviously, Rumble off, Chamber off, but then I came back in a brace and I did some live events. I had wrestled Solo Sikoa on one of the Mondays leading up to WrestleMania as well, mostly because I just wanted to get a feel for it. I wanted to know what I could and couldn’t do and I didn’t want to wrestle with a brace at WrestleMania because I hate wrestling with a brace. So I wasn’t in a ton of pain only because I had gone through the pain the weeks leading up to it, kind of like trial runs. I was like let me test this out at these live events, and then let me test it out on TV. Let me see what’s going to hurt me. Basically like stab, stab, stab, okay, now I know what not to do, now I know how to work around it. Then I just had booked the surgery for right after. I knew what the end game was at Mania. I’m like, let’s just get through that. I want to help, I think I can be an integral part of this so let’s do that, and then I’ll go get it fixed and take a little bit of time.”
Rollins on his famous Money in the Bank cash-in at WrestleMania 31: “There might be camera footage of this somewhere, but I’m just sitting in this chair right outside of the curtain in Gorilla. This was a smaller Gorilla at the time, we hadn’t expanded it to this big one yet. I remember Michael Hayes is in the producer seat and Hunter and Vince are on the far side. I want to say there was panic about the time because we were still on pay-per-view, so we have to be off at this time. It wasn’t like an option to overrun like on Peacock. They want a certain time period. With streaming they’re awesome because of that, you get a little window and you’re not strict because the advertising model is a little different. So it’s like at the time we had to be off, done. So I remember sitting there and thinking oh shoot, they’re not going to make it, we’re going to have to do this tomorrow, that’s what I was thinking. I was just if it doesn’t work, we’ll just do it tomorrow, just hoping that my idea doesn’t go up in smoke. So fortunately, they are professionals, and they hit their cue when they needed to and the rest is history.”
On last Monday’s WWE Raw on Netflix debut, CM Punk defeated Seth Rollins in a main event singles bout.
