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Chapter 1: How did Seth Rollins' upbringing influence his wrestling career?
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Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway. With all these matches, you know, you have ladder matches, table, chairs, all that. I mean, I understand there's a certain choreography to it.
Mm-hmm.
But still, that stuff hurt. Very much.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Seth face on the independent wrestling circuit?
Charlotte Flair, we had Charlotte Flair on earlier in September. And she was talking about that she tore an ACL and she still finished. She had to wrestle another 30, 45 minutes.
Yeah, I mean, that's probably an exaggeration on her behalf. But she did tear an ACL and have to finish her match, yeah.
But when you hurt something or you tear an abductor or you pull a hamstring or something like that, in the match of schedule, you know, one fall for a 15-minute time limit. You know, it used to say that. I don't know how much the time limits are now. But in a situation like that, when you know something is going on and you have to finish the match, that's got to be difficult, though.
Yeah, I think it's one of those things where... Gosh, you know, I'm trying to kind of like liken it to a football injury, but, you know, there's plays.
Chapter 4: How did The Shield's formation impact Seth Rollins' career?
No, you get injured, you coming out the field.
Yeah, yeah. There ain't no finish in the game.
It could be the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, two minutes left.
I'm out of here. Yeah, there's a play and you're gone. Yeah, it's done. It stops. That's the thing is with us, when we get hurt, like there's like a self-evaluation process that happens. And because like, you know, I mean, NFL plays about seven seconds or something like that.
Boom.
You know, you know, it's like, oh, that's it. Now I'm evaluating. I'm going to go to the sideline and evaluate. But we have to evaluate kind of in real time. Like we have to. It's not a sprint like that. It's a bit longer. So like if something happens, you know, my shoulder is a great example of that. So I'm wrestling Cody Rhodes in the main event of a pay-per-view in Perth, Australia in October.
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Chapter 5: What lessons has Seth learned from wrestling injuries?
I do this move that I've never really done where I dive from one side of the ring to the other and give Cody a headbutt. And I land funky. So I land like on my elbow, kind of off to the side, pushes my shoulder up. And it hurt. But I didn't know how bad it was hurt in the moment. So...
I hit him, I cover, he kicks out, I'm laying there, and then I just run my self-check while the audience is kind of, they're going through the replays and everything, we're moving on to the next thing, but you gotta give the audience time to digest. So you're just sitting there in the process and I go, okay, I hurt my shoulder. How bad did I hurt my shoulder?
Is there anything left in the match that I can't do or that's going to be dangerous for me or dangerous for my opponent or that I'm going to make look bad? Like, do I cut stuff out and we just go, let's get to the end of the match? What's the process here? And when it's like a kind of a. a ligament-type injury like that, again, I didn't know what was wrong with it.
I was like, okay, here's the things I can do. I've probably got about 10 to 15 more minutes of this match. I'll get through it, and then we'll figure out what happens. I'm not really going to know until I get a scan, and I'm not putting Cody in any danger. I think I can get this done. Now, there's sometimes where it's like you'll get a concussion or you'll see somebody get a concussion.
Unfortunately, not in this position.
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Chapter 6: How does Seth Rollins define his legacy in wrestling?
You get a concussion. The ref sees that happen and that's it. It's done. Like they just call the match off. Young fella named Javon Evans just had this happen to him like maybe two weeks ago on Monday Night Raw. He butted heads with his opponent. You know, he got concussed. There was a little bit of like, hey, hey, what's going on?
They kind of let him walk through a little bit of the rest of the match while he was out there. And then it became apparent that he wasn't. Yeah, he wasn't himself. So they just that's it. Winner by ref stoppage. And that's it.
Chapter 7: What is Seth Rollins' perspective on the future of wrestling?
And so it's just communication. Communicate to your referee. Communicate to your opponent. You just try to figure out what the best course of action is and. Again, when it's something like that, like a concussion where you can't self-diagnose really because you're rocked. We have people in doctors. Yeah, we have everybody watching to make sure, no, no, no, get him out of there.
When it's something like that where you can't, my shoulder or like Charlotte's knee or my knee as well, when you can't really see what's happening, you just have to rely on the talent to try to figure out what's best for the situation.
In a situation where, like, you broke John Cena's nose or something, you guys are wrestling, and... It's an accident, but things happen. Who has that said? I think they say it's called keeping receipts when you do something to somebody that goes a little further than it should have been.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those are receipts. But receipts are generally for when things might be a little on purpose. The John thing was a complete accident.
Chapter 8: How does Seth balance his career and family life with Becky Lynch?
I mean, look, John's got ham hands. He's punched so many people in the side of the head. He understands. Sometimes things happen. We say it's not ballet. No discredit to ballet. Ballet is hard. I can't do it. But yeah, it's not ballet. It's a physical interaction. So things happen. And for the most part, there's not a lot of bad blood. But occasionally...
someone will get a stray shot in there where you're like, hmm. What was that all about?
Was that intentional or?
Yeah. I think it was intentional. I'm going to pay your ass back. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm sure on the field you have those too. Absolutely. Because there's, you know, it's, again, physical sport. There's rules and there's, like, you know, competitive edge. I mean, how many DBs or linebackers did you get into where you're like ā Okay, I ain't cool with that.
Yeah, I know when there's a good clean tackle in me, you cheap shot at me.
Exactly.
Which in turn, I'm going to get your ass back in the course of a play, and I'm going to make it look like an actual play. But guess what? I know. I'm going to get mine. I will get my leg back. Yeah, yes. But you have a great relationship with John. I do, John. It's amazing. And John is finishing up. He's done 48. You want to wrestle that long?
Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I mean, I'm 40 in a couple of months and I feel great. I'm in what I would consider the prime of my career where like the physical hasn't declined and the mental is as sharp as it's ever been. And so as long as I can continue to contribute. in a way that's positive for our fan base and for our younger talent.
As long as I can continue to make the product better, then I think I would like to contribute. And my body cooperates. I would like to continue to do it. Who's your Mount Rushmore WWE wrestlers? Mount Rushmore? Oh, man. That's so hard because you get into this trap of, like, in-ring talent, guys who are just great wrestlers, and then you get into, you know, money, right? Who drew the most money?
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