Seth Rollins wants some answers.
The WWE Universe is still waiting in anticipation to find out what the main event of WrestleMania 40 will be. In the meantime, WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins recently appeared on The Rich Eisen Show and addressed the Rhodes-Reigns-Rock situation and why he challenged Cody Rhodes to choose him.
“I said, Cody Rhodes, come take a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship,” Rollins recalled. “I understand Cody Rhodes, one of the top performers in WWE. He’s got to finish the story. He’s got the story in mind. He wants the WWE Championship. It’s a title that his father, the late great American Dream Dusty Rhodes, has never won. Almost won it, had it ripped away. He never won it. He wants to fulfill that destiny.
“I understand that, but that title don’t mean what it once did. Roman Reigns has ruined that title. This is the championship in WWE right here. This is the most prestigious title in our entire industry. I’ve put in the work over the past year to make it that way. And I want to test myself against the best at WrestleMania and the best is the winner of the Royal Rumble now two years in a row, Cody Rhodes. That’s what I want.”
When asked why Rhodes may not choose him, Rollins explained that the Royal Rumble winner is set on finishing his story, but now The Rock has become a “wrench” in those plans.
“Well, Cody is dead set on finishing this story, for one, and two, we got a bigger wrench in the picture,” Rollins said. “His name is Dwayne Johnson, known in our world as The Rock. So I don’t know what’s going to happen. We’ve got a big press conference tomorrow at T-Mobile. Something’s going down, I don’t know what it is, but hopefully we’ll get some answers because we’ve been waiting since Royal Rumble and we ain’t got no answers. More questions than answers.”
Rollins also went on to claim that Reigns has ruined the WWE Universal Championship by having a part-time schedule.
“Well, look, Roman Reigns is working on his own schedule all, and in his mind, he thinks that makes the title bigger and maybe at a time, that was the truth,” Rollins explained. “But the problem is, Roman Reigns isn’t present, which means his title isn’t present, which means you don’t have a crack at it, which means there’s a glass ceiling, which means this the title that he holds isn’t gonna be in every town, in every city. It’s not there. It’s the Hollywood title.
“It’s as close to a prop, as you can call it and I don’t want to demean it, because I’ve been the World Heavyweight Champion, that WWE Champion and when I was, I took it everywhere. I defended it all over the place. I made sure that it was present. I made sure that it was on Raw. It was on SmackDown. I made sure that other people had an opportunity at that title.”
Rollins reiterated that he has built up the World Heavyweight title “from scratch” and is now carrying it into WrestleMania despite it not existing one year ago. Now, we all wait for tonight’s press conference to see what decisions The Rock and Rhodes make.
“I don’t know what The Rock’s intentions are,” Rollins added. “He hasn’t made that clear. That’s what I’m saying, what are the answers? We need them. He showed up, confronted Roman Reigns. Cody Rhodes kind of seemed to acquiesce, but we don’t know. So hopefully we’ll get some answers at this press conference and we can get these main events set For WrestleMania.”
WrestleZone will provide updates on the WrestleMania 40 Kickoff tonight as the event emanates from Las Vegas.
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