Seth Rollins on balancing WWE with sports media career: ‘I wanna do it all’
Seth Rollins wants to remain part of WWE for as long as he can — along with balancing other pursuits like his new career in sports media.
A huge Chicago Bears fan, Rollins joined NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” this season as a regular guest host. He’ll also be making a pre-game appearance on Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL coverage. Speaking with Bleacher Report about his media gigs, Rollins said he loves being able to do them in addition to his WWE work. He wants to continue balancing them with WWE through the rest of his career in the ring and beyond.
“I wanna do it all. I don’t see any reason why I can’t,” Rollins said. “Who says I can’t do both? I love WWE and I wanna be a part of it for as long as I can, as long as they’ll have me, whether that’s in ring or behind the scenes. And I love talking about football, so if I can continue to kind of create my own space in that world and people will have me, I’d love to be there and talk about it. It’s a great thing to be able to do both, I’m super lucky. When I’m done, I wanna be in the booth calling a Bears game and then I wanna be calling the shots in Gorilla in WWE. So, let’s do it all.”
Rollins hasn’t given much thought to how much longer he wants to keep wrestling. At 39 years old, he believes he still has a lot left in the tank, though he knows his career has crossed the halfway point.
At the moment, Rollins is unable to wrestle due to a shoulder injury that he suffered in October. The injury forced him to vacate the World Heavyweight Championship and will keep him out of action until at least WrestleMania season.
“This thing with the NFL and my injury, it was a happy coincidence,” Rollins told Bleacher Report. “We were gonna do this no matter what. If I was still the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, I was still gonna be a broadcaster on Good Morning Football weekly. I was still gonna do the Christmas Day game either way, so it’s nice that I can kind of put most of my focus on this pot a little bit. Obviously, if I was doing both, it would’ve been a little more difficult because I would’ve had to split it, but I love both. I love professional wrestling and I love professional football.”
Netflix is broadcasting the Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota Vikings at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on Christmas Day. The pre-game coverage that Rollins will appear on begins at 4 p.m.
Joseph Currier is the lead editor of F4WOnline.com, directing daily news coverage and writing articles on professional wrestling. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, obtaining a journalism degree in 2016. Joseph joined F4W during his time at UMass and has now been writing about the industry for nearly a decade.
In addition to his work with F4W, Joseph has previously contributed to Sports Illustrated's wrestling coverage. He lives in Massachusetts and is a diehard fan of the Boston sports teams and Liverpool Football Club.