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Seth Rollins says Bray Wyatt’s character is hard to work with

October 2, 2022

During his recent interview with Ariel Helwani, Seth Rollins was asked a timely question: Would he like to redo his 2019 feud with Bray Wyatt?

It’s interesting, of course, because it certainly looks like Rollins and Wyatt will be working for the same company again very soon. Seth’s answer addresses an issue that wrestling fans have talked about throughout Bray’s career, and one that we may face again very soon – as Wyatt’s characters have intriguing introductions that lead to unique material. and compelling, do they work in traditional pro wrestling stories?

“Yeah, I mean – another crack at that one might be nice. I mean, look, Bray Wyatt’s character is just tough. If you look at someone who worked with Bray Wyatt’s character for a long time, they didn’t come out any better than they came in. It was very difficult to have a history with him where – apart from Randy, obviously, who killed him – it was difficult for everyone. I think maybe Daniel Bryan? Bryan could have got away with it somewhat unscathed.

“But pretty much everyone has met a disastrous end for their character. It was the end of the Seth Rollins character as you knew him, the Beast Slayer character. It was hard to figure out how to tell a good wrestling story with this character…I just wasn’t good at it. That’s one thing I wasn’t, I wasn’t good at the phenomenology stuff. I wasn’t able to intertwine that with reality enough to make what I felt was a gripping story.

“At the end of the day, it probably would have been better if he mutilated me in that cell and put his claw on me and called him a day. I could have moved on, and he could have had his run as a champion. But it didn’t, and we played the hand that was dealt to us and it wasn’t our call, and I know he would tell you the same thing. It didn’t happen. like we wanted. We tried, and we tried, and we tried, and the boss at the time didn’t budge. And so we were done – as I said before, it’s not not our sandbox. Sometimes we’re actors on stage, and we read the lines. It was one of those nights, we didn’t have the freedom to improvise. We didn’t have the freedom to take things seriously. hand.

“I would love to have another chance to work with Windham Rotunda. He’s an incredible talent. Just a spirit for the industry, and for the stories and characters that are very unique, that not many people in our company – have passed , present or future – think about things at the level that he does. So I would like to have another chance to work with him, because I think we could do something extremely special, whether it’s with the character of The Fiend or not? Who knows. He’s a master at reinventing himself, so if he does, if our paths cross and he comes back here, I’d really like to have another round. certainly has some magic to do there. In what capacity? I don’t know.”

This is understandably a sore point for Rollins, as the disastrous feud with The Fiend is a big reason why his shot at being WWE’s top guy fell apart. He appropriates the faults of the program. But to point out that nearly everyone who has worked with Bray — without specifying whether he was just referring to his latest incarnation or including the cult leader gimmick that preceded him — saw their character meet “a disastrous end. isn’t exactly a ringing endorsement of Wyatt characters.

It was the rest of the quote that led to heated debate in the Cageside offices. Clearly, the booking of the much-vilified Hell in a Cell match is being put at Vince McMahon’s feet. In their own way, Seth and Bray have covered this before.

But is Rollins’ interest in working with Windham Rotunda in the future more because he thinks he’ll be up against Rotunda’s next reinvention rather than The Fiend? Or because they no longer play in Vince’s “sandbox”? And were the pre-Hell in a Cell struggles that Seth talked about primarily attributable to Wyatt’s previous characters, or the vision for those characters that was dictated by the guy who was writing and directing the play that Bray and his co-stars are in? -stars were playing?

We should get more clarity on this when we see how Wyatt’s next character is handled on shows booked by Triple H and his team.

In the meantime, let us know what you think, Cagesiders.