Seth Rollins details injury at WWE Crown Jewel: ‘Did not stick the landing’
Seth Rollins broke down how he tore his rotator cuff during a recent interview.
Rollins has been sidelined since suffering the injury in his match against Cody Rhodes at Crown Jewel in October. He was a guest on the Games With Names show recently and detailed how the injury occurred and how it affected the remainder of the match.
Rollins said:
“I jumped from one turnbuckle all the way across the ring to the other turnbuckle where Cody Rhodes was hanging upside down and I headbutted him. But in the landing, I didn’t stick it. I did not stick the landing. I rotated a little bit to my left, landed hard on my left elbow, jolted it up into the shoulder. Felt it go right away.”
Rollins said that after feeling his shoulder go, he was concerned because they still had a significant portion of the match left, but they ended up getting through everything they’d planned.
“Fortunately, I was able to get through everything. I took his finisher off the top rope, which was pretty scary at that point because I knew I was going to land harshly on my shoulder so I kind of kept it tucked real tight.”
Rollins said that adrenaline helped him get through much of the match, but it was difficult.
“If you watch that match back, it’s dangling at my side. I can’t throw even my punches or forearms correctly. It was hard to do what needed to get done.”
Later in the interview, they discussed Rollins’ 2022 Hell in a Cell match against Rhodes, which Rhodes wrestled with a torn pec. With the two having now wrestled multiple high-profile matches where one of them was injured for at least part of it, Rollins spoke about the chemistry he and Rhodes have together.
“You need a dance partner, and everybody’s got different chemistry with different dance partners. He and I have always had great chemistry. We did it again just recently at Crown Jewel, and it was as fantastic as ever.”
Rollins’ comments regarding how he suffered the injury at Crown Jewel begin around 4:50 of the below video, and his comments about his chemistry with Cody Rhodes begin around the 1-hour 19-minute and 30-second mark in the video below.
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