In an interview with SLAM! Wrestling, WWE superstar Seth Rollins commented on The Shield’s face turn, WWE’s new generation of superstars, Daniel Bryan, Roman Reigns and more.
Highlights of the interview are below:
On The Shield’s face turn: “It’s just how things happen, it’s been an interesting transformation I suppose, but to be honest with you, we really haven’t done much different, we just started targetting different people. By that association, the fans just started to get with us, it’s been fun, it’s been a side to take for sure, but I think it’s something that we’re all pretty excited about.”
On WWE’s new generation of superstars: “I think that with this new generation of guys, you talk about the Wyatt Family, you can talk about Daniel Bryan, the Uso’s, you can throw Cesaro in there, there’s this next generation of dudes who are hungry man. The Shield, coming into WWE, we wanted to change what was going on, we had seen the business stagnate for a good 5 years at least, just guys not coming in being hungry and not wanting to make change, not wanting to ruffle any feathers, feeling like they’re walking on eggshells. Myself, Ambrose and Reigns, we were never like that, we’re all alpha males, that type of personality, we all want to be the best, be the number one. From the very outset, we were just going to work harder than everybody else, put on better matches than everybody else, cut better promos than everybody else, be more interesting than everybody else, we didn’t really care who we p***** off. I think that attitude resonated with a lot of other guys that we came across, especially in developmental and they brought that attitude up here with them, it’s really a great time to be a WWE fan because you’ve got a lot of very invested performers who are willing to make that sacrifice to make that change.”
On Daniel Bryan’s rise to the top of the WWE: “People say he’s ascended so quickly, but he’s been in WWE for what, four years now and before that, he was on the indies for over a decade. He’s a guy who if anybody’s put in the time, it’s him, if anybody’s had a slow build to where they’re at, it’s him, it definitely seems like a skyrocket, just because of all the attention that the Yes Movement has gathered, the way he’s been positioned over the last 6 months particularly, but like I said, he’s worked so hard and I’m super happy for him, he deserves it. I’m real proud of him as a performer and as a friend.”
On how Roman Reigns learns from Dean Ambrose and himself: “He’s smart enough to listen, he’s smart enough to pay attention and pick up little things, he’s someone who’s a student of the game, he played football before he got here, he didn’t spend as much time doing this as we had, but it’s in his blood, his family is a huge part of this business, he’s just a guy who’s built for it, it’s just part of him. We spend a lot of time in the car and a lot of time in the ring together and stuff like that, so if he’s not learning, then something’s not right, but I think it’s pretty clear that over the past 18 months that we’ve been teamed up that his progression and his development has been accelerated to say the least.”
The interview is available in full at this link.
