Seth Rollins hurt and confused WHY fans have turned on him

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Seth Rollins weighed in on WWE fans turning on him during his appearance on Corey Graves’ After the Bell podcast, as well as the reaction to his Hell in a Cell match with Bray Wyatt. Rollins and Wyatt’s match did not go over well with fans in the arena or outside of it, to say the least, and Rollins has also been getting plenty of flack on Twitter and elsewhere as of late, both for things like the HIAC match and his public statements on Twitter and elsewhere. Speaking with Graves, Rollins talked about how he isn’t sure what has changed from when he used to be braised and how the reaction to the Hell in a Cell match bothered him.

Highlights from the discussion, and the full podcast, are below:

On the criticism he’s getting from fans:“It’s kind of one of these things that, you know,. ‘Where do you go,’ like, ‘What’s the answer? Why, why?’ It’s sort of like, if people don’t get what they want, they whine about it on Twitter, right? I mean, that’s kind of what happens nowadays. And that happens with everything, it’s not just our industry. But you do something and it strikes a chord, and it’s almost like you’re doing the right thing. I don’t even know anymore. It’s a weird industry, dude. 2019, and I don’t know what wrestling looks like anymore. It’s a weird place,dude.”

On fans hating the Hell in a Cell match: “You mention ‘internet darling’ and the funny thing is, you said all the way back to Tyler Black but you could go back six months, a year ago from Hell in a Cell, you know what I mean? I was everybody’s favorite. But those same people that are panning Hell in a Cell and talking about how Seth Rollins is not cool are the same people who were clamoring for me to face Brock Lesnar going into WrestleMania. So, I don’t know what changed except for the fact that I became the person they wanted me to be, and then they hated me for it. It’s a very fickle audience, it is what it is.

“But to answer your question directly, it feels awful, you know? It’s not a good feeling to go out there and put your body on the line. And not just at Hell in a Cell, but every single night for the past however many years that I’ve been doing it. I go out and competed at an extremely high level, and dare I say I’m one of the very best at my job. And I do what I have to do when I have to do it. And it’s not always pretty, but you go out there and you do your job, and you do it well. People don’t like it, and they kind of forget that it is what it is. And so it hurts your feelings. You’re a human being, you go out there and you work hard, and it’s fine. It’s art, you can go out there and have your opinion on it, but it’s tough to swallow sometimes.”

On fans turning on people when they become popular: “Oh, 100%. I mean, I’m not egotistical to think I’m the only guy that’s ever made it to the top and been hated for it. I mean, you look at recent memory. Roman Reigns had to deal with the same crap. John Cena had to deal with the same crap, so it’s not like this is anything new. I won’t be the last, I mean, just wait till the next flavor of ice cream gets boring to that audience. They’re gonna do the same thing to them. So, it is what it is. It’s not anything that I’m shocked about, but it doesn’t sting anything less either.”

On what to expect out of his Crown Jewel match: “Oh, jeez. I don’t even know what to expect out of this one. [laughs] You look at the last one [?} and it’s going to be super-weird in front of this audience over in the Middle East. I honestly have no idea how they’re going to take to this type of match. I don’t know what they’re going to do with The Fiend, I don’t know how that’s gonna look, how that’s gonna sound. If you’re watching on the Network, what you can expect [is] it’s gonna be an all-out brawl. You know, I’m gonna do whatever I can to put the guy away. But yeah, I mean, I’m just gonna go out and do what I do, man. And if you look at my track record over the last long period of time, I’ve been all right. Especially as Universal Champion. Some pretty big barn-burners, you know, with [Braun] Strowman and AJ Styles and stuff like that. So I’m pretty good when it comes to title matches and being awesome at my job. And you can expect more of that at Crown Jewel.”
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I hate Seth Rollins now too. It's like he's upset at the fans for being fickle, totally oblivious to the fact that it's been the shytty writing of his storylines that had people turn on him.

Also going on a tirade about fans being fickle, only to comment on the Saudi event where he says "I don't know how fans will react to it, it's weird". No shyt, because your company is a joke, but keep on repping.
 
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John Cena, Roman Reigns, Batista (around the time the fans wanted Bryan), etc...this is a pattern with the audience. Rollins shouldn't take it personally.

But those of us in the know understand Rollins was always a bland flippy dude with little to no character or mic skills. Now y'all bandwagoners see it.:francis:
 
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Meh. Only thing I can really fault Seth for is engaging folks over the AEW stuff on the net and not just letting critics be...but I can understand his frustration otherwise because a vast majority of the base were clamoring for him to have a big babyface run when he was putting on great matches (remember the gauntlet)....



This was only a year ago.

His promos are meh as a champ, and they've basically always been meh for everyone that's been Universal champ outside of Heyman speaking for Lesnar so it is what it is. If the issue is the belt, it's unsurprising that he'd be doubly annoyed because everyone was calling for him to be the person to take it off a guy that never wrestled on weekly TV and now they want him to drop it to a guy that also never wrestles on weekly TV.

Probably irks him a bit more because he can go back to the time where he won it all in the first place and was almost forced to turn face by the fans because he'd snapped his shyt and went through all the trouble to rehab and return. Now everyone's like :coffee: :yawn:

He's not completely free of fault, but he's not completely wrong. :ld:
 
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Yes...he lost sight of all the odd comments over the last few months..claimiing the WWE was better than all the other wrestling companies when everyone knows they force feed their own chosen stars over more deserving talent. He said this while in a multi millionaire position where they had him go over Cripple H and Lesnar at Manias, allowed Ambrose to be jerked around, and seems to be inferior to Becky Lynch from all angles. He lost sight of that. When you get rich, you forget what it was like getting there.
 
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He shyt on Ambrose who was supposed to be his boy, went at AEW & NJPW, tried to big league Will Ospreay before backtracking, has constantly bytched about fan criticism, and has mostly come across as a whiney dork outside of the ring. In 2019, that shyt is important and matters almost as much as what happens on screen.
 
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:ehh:WWE could easily play off Seth being a geek with a "Falling Down" gimmick. Imagine him snapping and losing his shyt, just to end up feeling like he's justified for his actions. Sort of like a Bob Backlund in 94 type of gimmick. It almost speaks volumes due to the fact that he's pretty much Backlund in 93 :camby:
 
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