Seth Rollins explains why he hates WWE ladder matches, Royal Rumbles
Seth Rollins isn’t a fan of matches that have a lot of moving parts.
To promote the new season of “WWE: Unreal,” Rollins and his wife Becky Lynch appeared on Barstool Sports’ My Mom’s Basement podcast. Rollins was asked about a comment he made on the docuseries where he said he hates Money in the Bank matches. Rollins admitted to being a “control freak” and said he doesn’t like match types where things are out of his control. That extends to other stipulation bouts like Royal Rumbles and Elimination Chambers.
“It stems from me being a control freak, that’s where it stems from,” Rollins said. “And the more moving parts, is the less I can control. Because I can only do so much. I have a vision. I see how it should be. And when things don’t go how I see them happening or how I feel that they should be going, I get so frustrated. And so, like, ladder matches like that where there’s moving parts and you just can’t control how things are going to happen. Random ladders breaking. There’s a whole bunch else going on. [The ladders] are never in the right spot.”
Lynch agreed with Rollins, saying they approach laying out matches in the same way. They both take on similar roles of wanting to be the leader.
Though he isn’t a fan of some multi-man matches, Rollins loved taking part in six-man tag bouts when he was part of The Shield.
“I was actually spoiled by The Shield six-mans,” he told My Mom’s Basement. “Because, I mean, Jon [Moxley] and Roman [Reigns] and I were all on the same page. Like, pretty much quickly. Once we were all rocking and rolling, it was smooth like butter. So you go back and look at some of those, the effortlessness with which we had those trios matches was really something. Especially for the time. You know, that style wasn’t cooking in WWE in 2012 or whatever it was. We kind of innovated a different — it wasn’t like six-mans were a new thing, but the way we were doing them as a three-man unit, you didn’t see that in WWE. We were fortunate to be on the other side of some pretty incredible talents. But even when we weren’t, we were able to feed off of each other. So I’d say I was spoiled because we were all just — it was a well-oiled machine.”
Season two of “WWE: Unreal” arrived on Netflix today. On the series, Lynch said she is in the midst of her “final run” in the ring.
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