Seth Rollins reflects on infamous Hell in a Cell match with Bray Wyatt
Recently, speaking on My Mom’s Basement podcast, Seth Rollins opened up and reflected on his infamous 2019 match against Bray Wyatt.
Almost six years ago, Rollins faced off against ‘The Fiend’ inside the Hell in a Cell structure while defending his Universal Championship. While essentially a no-disqualification match, the bout was stopped mid-way due to excessive violence and faced severe criticism from the fans and critics. While promoting Unreal Season Two with Robbie Fox, Rollins reflected on the match and wished that they had cameras backstage during those times.
“I wish they were there for the Hell In A Cell match with Bray Wyatt. I wish they were there for that whole weekend so they could really see what went down,” Rollins said. “That’s one of those where, there’s such a terrible connotation to that experience from an outside standpoint, and I just go no one really knows what happened there, and I can’t describe it to a point where it makes where people have a different feeling about it.”
The former World champion explained that the pressure and build-up to the match created such a situation that neither of them was proud of it once it was over. However, he expected more empathy from the fans, if not appreciation.
“If you could have seen that, from start to finish, that week, all the way up to the end of that match, and the next day, I think people would have, I don’t know, appreciation, but a little more empathy maybe.”
In the same interview, Rollins further opened up and defended the now-late Bray Wyatt, aka Windham Rotunda’s legacy.
“There are some places that one specifically for me, I can name and say it, mostly because it’s a defence for Windham [Rotunda], who’s not here to defend himself, and I know that experience really bothered him. He always wanted to be able to work with me, and vice versa, I wanted to work with him again, to be able to get a better shot at that, because we loved each other and working with each other,” Rollins continued. “But not, that scenario was so awful for both of us, and for him to never be able to get that, I can put that out there and say I wish we had an opportunity to show what happened there and then come back and do it better.”
Following an extremely successful WWE career, Wyatt passed away in August 2023.
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