Seth FREAKIN Rollins
 

This guy is on absolute fire on Twitter right now.

It's nice to see somebody is still passionate about WWE. The writing has sucked, but in ring ability, they have an abundance of talent.

The chair smashing trash talking Rollins, I'll cheer that all day long.

One of the keys to kayfabe is you need to have at least a half truth. Oof.

I find his Twitter rants to be dumb as fuck, assuming he's doing them on his own and not at WWE's behest.

A wrestler of his ilk has a lot of crossover appeal with the AEW and NJPW fanbase, and he's damaging that. Him putting over WWE is one thing, but him using it as a means to rag on others makes him look needlessly petulant and childish, and risks turning a loyal fanbase on him. It doesn't read like the actions of a babyface main event talent.

Eh what's gpod for the goose is good for the gander the problem is you cant tell people you have good art they have to tell you

Whether the product is shit or not, he’s the champ, and therefore the face of the brand at the moment. Promoting the brand and defending it from naysayers is part of that.

He's made Ospreay look like slightly less of a dickhead so now we can all enjoy his upcoming G1 matches a little bit more. Thanks Seth.

If he has that level of passion, I doubt he is worried about keeping AEW and NJPW fanbases happy.

He also isn't just going out of his way burying others, he is also putting over WWE wrestlers. That is a very babyface thing to do.

I'd like to know if his relationship with Becky Lynch and where they're going with it on TV is all his idea or if this is something of Vince/Creative.

Lol Will Ospreay sent nothing to him but an emoji and it prompted Rollins to tell him that the better version of him (Ricochet) won the US title.

Yeah, he put over a WWE guy, pretty sure that is what I said...

Seth is right of course. This is the most talented roster they’ve ever had, capable of putting on 5 star matches every night.

Which makes the fact that WWE fucks it up at every opportunity all the more infuriating.

5 star matches dont sell tickets

Burying a dude he's never going to wrestle doesn't accomplish anything.

Then why does Chris Jericho keep tweeting about Brock Lesnar?

Neither does squandering said talent, but here we are.

Because he’s also an idiot on Twitter. If I were AEW I’d be telling him to cut that shit out.

Rollins coming off like a huge dickhead tbh

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I mean if you wanna talk numbers we can compare bank accounts too. <br><br>P.S. That’s counting a month off with a broken back...���� buddy.</p>&mdash; Seth Rollins (@WWERollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWERollins/status/1143375109157081088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"> <a href="https://t.co/W5DFpByC8U">pic.twitter.com/W5DFpByC8U</a></p>&mdash; michael (@michael51671399) <a href="https://twitter.com/michael51671399/status/1143375763409969152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How much did you get paid for those Saudi Arabian matches, and was it easy to get the blood out?</p>&mdash; Richard Whittaker (@YorkshireTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/YorkshireTX/status/1143398678130020352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

oof.

The fact that Rollins started bringing up irrelevant shit like his bank account just proves that he’s a douchebag.

Being raised in Iowa, the trash talk is embedded into the lot of us there. Next, he'll brag about his family's yield of Corn, then y'all will definitely be shook

Rollins looks so bad after he brought up the bank account thing hahahah

I don't have a problem with him defending the company that he's at the top of right now, agree with him or not.

There's tons of ways to defend the company that are more credible than this. defend the amount of eye balls on the product each week vs any competitor. defend the charity they do. defend the hours on the road they put in. you could keep going. this approach will win over no one.

real bad look

John Cena never got into any twitter wars with people outside the company, to my knowledge.

When people took shots at him, Cena said more with his silence than Rollins has in all his Twitter responses combined.

Business is also cratering with Rollins as champ.

I miss the old Seth Rollins on twitter; the one that would cheat on is fiance with a coworker and try to fuck his fans.

:lol: Ospreay already has a Little Guy shirt out

nice job cashing in

That guy is a guy I can get behind

He also just did an interview with Bleacher Report in which he said Moxley took his ball and went home.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...mahon-creative

He didnt go home though

I feel like Roman went through something similar last year. He wasn't the champ but was the de-facto top guy with Lesnar not working for months at a time. When the camera weren't rolling, Reigns would flip off and curse out fans booing him and he'd call out people on Twitter who were talking bad about WWE all the time, and I think he mentioned the money he was making too.

Almost makes me wonder if this is a directive from Vince for the #1 guy to act like this.

Good, Moxley had one cool moment and has followed it up with a month of jilted girlfriend levels of crying on podcasts and a few shitty New Japan matches.

At least he went 25 minutes with Big Cass, career highlight!



The bank account comment by Rollins is doesn't prove much, but neither does Ospreays "I'm better cause I've had more matches this year" comment. Both seem like a dumb way to argue your case.

Good to know you haven't listened to them, then.

Definitely think there's something to it being a Vince directive.

Who refuses feels the need to publicly fire back at everybody? Trump.

Who is Vince friends with? Trump.

I really think the idea of simply taking the high road like Cena won't resonate with Vince anymore. He feels you need to fire back at your critics or you're a pushover.

I really hope this is a Vince directive. Because all it’s done is make his top babyface look like a prick while giving a rising star in another promotion a bunch of free publicity. That sounds about right.

Its def free publicity

I listened to Jerichos and Wade's, how many more times do I have to hear him whine about getting pushed for 6 straight years but wahhh I had to pretend I'm loony.

Maybe they scripted his promos because without this "muh WWE hate", he didn't have Anything good to say.

That's cool, he can play the victim all he wants to get himself over, it's an original concept for anybody who has never watched Impact...

I hope he never had someone called Amy hung :'(

Seth rollings is a good wrestler with boring promos, boring character development, boring writing, working for a boring company which loses ratings month after month.

Ospreay has been a cunt on twitter before, so honestly, these two can have each other.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When your on top in a tough time in the business you take the blame. It's not the talents fault. Just a dip in the business. It will rebound and it won't be any one specific thing that brings it back.</p>&mdash; Kevin Nash (@RealKevinNash) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealKevinNash/status/1143286250557923328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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He's dead wrong. Its always a specific person who brings it back.

Doubt its an actual Vince directive since for the most part WWE is pretty much hands off on how talent handle social media. They probably are quietly approving his antics though since its proving in their eyes that he's a staunch defender of the company and won't bite the hand that feeds.

He's done stuff similar to this before in social media but usually just jumped in when others were on the attack.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">-6 stars, Seth. <a href="https://t.co/vSpaDWKUxK">https://t.co/vSpaDWKUxK</a></p>&mdash; Dave Meltzer (@davemeltzerWON) <a href="https://twitter.com/davemeltzerWON/status/1143626039353962496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Rollins' original comment was after the whole dumb Peyton Royce / Meltzer thing last year

Yeah he kinda forgot about that whole Austin thing

Rollins wasn't told to say something negative about Reigns' leukemia

I lost some respect for the man*

*Not his g/f...Seth

Yeah I fixed it right away lol

There might be something to this. Orton did the same shit as champ. Now, you might say "yeah, but that's Orton", the point is, there has been a lot of "look how much money I got" from the top.

At this point, it's kinda like still saying "bingo halls" as a perjorative for indies.

That said, the blood money reply was pretty priceless.


I wonder if these were just jabs at one another that fanbases are making worse than the intent. Hard to tell sometime if they're sitting back like "look at all these marks... so, we up for golf this weekend?" or if they legit are taking serious digs because they really don't like the other guy. Both of those are totally plausible because internet.

And you thought the mystery of kayfabe was dead.

Mia Yim will now fall into the revamped NXT Name Generator 2.0 and now be called Amy Hung.

It’s weird that this needs to be said.

On the Nash thing, though (not necessarily about him)... is it really such an apples to apples comparison? I mean, we live in a time where it doesn't matter who the champ is because the product by and large is ass. We could concieveably have a hypothetical "Austin 3:16" moment pissed away and forgotten inside of a month because of bad booking, shitty script writing, manic camerawork, and half-empty, dead sounding arenas.

There is a difference between people not caring about the current champ, and not caring who the champion even is because it doesn't matter since you've succeeded in making most of your roster appear not nearly as special as they should be?

You can’t have an Austin 3:16 moment in today’s environment. But let’s not use that as an excuse to call all of our favorites “wastes of potential Austins”.

Only Fandango and a VERY small handful of others over recent years deserve that title.

That's kinda not what I meant. I'm not dubbing Rollins or Kingston that thing, I'm saying they'll ride right by that shit if they find one... but they'll be hard pressed to find one to begin with, because, as a company, they've tried exceedingly hard to get folks to care so little about so much the roster.

They've managed to turn former IWGP Champion and licence to print Yen, Shinsuke Nakamura from "OH MY GOD, WWE SIGNED HIM?!? IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING?!?" to "... meh" in just a short couple of years. And he isn't anywhere near anyone's favorite, but I have to ask again: who the fuck cares about Mojo Rowley? We have not been given any reason to. No journey to follow. No matches to speak of. No angles or progression. Just the initially corny and very, very, VERY annoying gimmick, and... poof. Now, he's just there. Nearly every former NXT Champion is just there. Almost everyone is just... there. And any time they start getting any semblance of something good coming along (like, think about how bananas it would have been if Samoa Joe had beaten Brock Lesnar for the title instead of being killed dead with a single F5 in the center of the ring and then dropped down the card) they stop it in its tracks.

There's multiple reasons why an Austin wouldn't happen again: correct time and place being chief among them, but I think the point isn't so much of finding that calibur of talent as it is being able to capitalize on if something that golden came their way again. Downplaying how popular CM Punk was. Trying to sidestep Daniel Bryan. Looking completely beyond the Ryder Revolution (which, ironically, was the thing that made the company look at "this internet thing" a little closer instead of just continuing to run with the perjorative assumption it's a total of like twelve neckbeards in basements as opposed to most of the audience carrying a thing in their pockets that has access). Also, even if "Austin 3:16" happened today, he'd be jobbed out for the next month, disappear from TV, and that would be that (assuming he wasn't in the proverbial doghouse for going off script). Confiscate all the signs. Prob'ly not have even made any shirts. Fuck that guy and his plain black trunks. Gotta find a new Hogan.

So, back to what I was saying: if Dolph had beat Kofi at the PPV, would you really care? I mean, they've spent so much time telling everyone by actions over the years that these guys aren't worth much to invest fandom into, so did it really matter? Even throwing out the PPV match wasn't the greatest (unfortunate, I've stated my opinion on those two before) it still should have been more notable: two BIG STARS mixing it up. They could have injected anyone into that match and had THEM win it and there would still be this feeling of apathy that isn't really correctly indicative of any of the talent involved themselves, but a symptom of the treatment of most of the roster as a whole.

Wrestlers are all pussies really, the way they take everything so personally on social media.

And no I wouldn't say that to any of their faces. :y:

WWE is like The Simpsons to me at this point, even if it suddenly started to be good again I wouldn't care because it's been not good for so long. I have a couple of certain time period of it that I look at fondly and just want to move on with my life at this point.m

That's honestly a really good analogy. A couple years ago I watched some new Simpsons episodes and found them surprisingly enjoyable. But I still didn't go back to watching every week.

Seth is a fucking douchebag. Glad Meltzer got to take that jab at him. :lol:

Seth's tweets are certainly irritating (considering his position in the company). It's one thing to be proud of your workplace and another to be completely delusional. The way he condescended Ospreay didn't sit well with me either. "little guy", "buddy", and suggesting to "compare bank statements" was kinda disgusting. Is he trying a bit too hard to be the "company man"?

Yeah, he is. And he's not coming off like a babyface at all. Guy's got no clue how to carry himself.

In comparison, Cena and Reigns come across as class acts.

Is this still going on or was it a one day mouth off?

What about your boy "The Cleaner" tweeting about Blood Money Saudi stuff when Multiple people that work for his company took that money, then cried about evolve airing on the network the same day as an AEW show. I thought they wanted competition? Lol

Or what about deleting the tweet when people started to call him out for that crap.

That seems like Kenny is a "fucking doucgebag", far more than Seth Rollins.

I get it though, WWE guy Bad, AEW Guy Yay.

Meltzer is a punk. How does he know WWE PPV buys within a day, yet he reps AEW at every turn, and it took him 3 weeks to determine D.O.N. Buyrates?

Bias Meltzer has zero credibility.

Naw, now it's Omega crying about WWE sending Bobby Fish to steal away viewers from AEW's free show lol

Kenny definitely overreacted there. Twitter just seems to bring out the douche in everyone.

Wonder if xrodmuc316 can tell us what Vince’s cum tastes like.

“It’s such good shit.”

I think xrod, like STD is tired of the hyperbole on the internet of how amazing AEW is going.

Problem is, that hyperbole doesn’t exist on tpww. People are excited for a new big budget alternative, but no one is saying they’re going to kill wwe. No one here even wants that. Except maybe noid. And there’s been plenty of criticism towards AEW and some of their decisions.

Exactly. I want more viable places for guys and gals to work and if AEW can light a fire under WWE to actually give a squirt of shit about the product they’re putting on television, all the better.

Lol, Omega isn't "my boy." I'm not even a big fan.

It's fine to criticize WWE for the Saudi deal. It's shitty. I don't know what talent making the trip has to do with Omega's comments.

Meltzer wants an alternative like anyone else. He's a fan too. He's obviously rooting for AEW to succeed, but why wouldn't he? Is anything he's shared factually inaccurate? I mean, I don't like the way he conflated the international buys with domestic buys to make AEW look more successful on PPV than ECW without clarifying that context, but it's not like his numbers were wrong or anything.

Pretty sure Noid doesn’t even like Omega...

You can call it whatever you want, but I call it biased.

It's one can do no wrong, while the other is horrible at everything.

I call foul regardless of what wrestling company said wrestlers works for. That is the difference. Non WWE fanboys are just as bad as WWE fanboys. It's just at the current time, non WWE fanboys are pressing WAY harder.

Seth Rollins gets vilified for finally talking some trash back. Kenny Omega whines about why does WWE have to try and compete with us after that is all AEW has tried to do from jump street.

He tries to play the Saudi card, while working for a guy who has done some pretty bad things to lower class workers he employed. And as an EVP, he employees at least 4 people that I can think of who have taken that exact same "blood money" he is trying to use as a defense for WWE broadcasting a freaking Evolve show.

Hypocrisy.

Being mad at me for having the nerve to call out a non WWE wrestler. Like I said, I call that biased.

Who is mad at you?

Seth works better as a heel. Heel Seth with heel GF Becky Lynch would be 100x better than whats happening now

... so long as they're not authority figures. We don't need a 1:1 re-hash of the McMahnon-Helmsley Era.

Even worse, he is now alternating between tweeting in kayfabe and trying to make #teamWWE a thing.

Even worse, he complained about AEW running a free show against Evolve's 10 anniversary show on the WWE Network. Oh wait...

Er, ok? Kenny Omega being a drama queen does not make Seth Rollins any less of a chode. When your twitter is so bad you're making Will Ospreay look good you should probably delete your account.

STOP BEING A KENNY OMEGA FANBOY, ULTRA MANTIS OMG!

QFT

And NOTHING Seth Rollins says should allow you to change the narrative or gloss over the whole of it.

Kenny Omega complained about competition while working for a company who has done everything possible to compete.

Kenny Omega is actually scared WWE is showing an Indy show on its network that will also feature some of their BIGGEST stars like Akira Tozawa and Drew Gukak.

Isn't Kenny Omega supposed to be a huge star, yet he is so afraid of Competition that he worked himself into a shoot and played the Saudi Arabia blood money card, when his first 2 major opponents in AEW took that exact same money.

THAT is a FAR bigger gaff then Seth Rollins using a teamwwe hashtag. But of course Seth works for WWE, so he is the only one it is acceptable to be critical of, right?

AEW’s show is going to see a large percentage of the ticket sale and PPV buy proceeds go to charity. That’s the main reason why Kenny was a bit bummed out that WWE decided to run a show up against theirs.

His post was over dramatic, and he shouldn’t have said it. But I don’t think he’d have given a shit if it was any other PPV they were running against.

Still if he believed in his product he wouldnt care

Kenny Omega being mad at a cut throat corporation for being a cut throat corporation is nothing but misguided naivety and I'm not sure why he expected (or required) good will in the first place and he looks like a bit of idiot but what does any of that have to do with Seth Rollins being a dickhead?

This thread is ABOUT Seth Rollins being a dickhead, who is actually changing the narrative here?

Seth Rollins being a dickhead has nothing to do with Chris Benoit making Daniel and Nancy tap out.

Chris Benoit making Daniel and Nancy tap out has nothing to do with Lex Luger killing Miss Elizabeth.

OR DOES IT

DUN DUN DUN

:|

What exactly do you want? Everyone here is of the opinion that Omega overreacted. Who are you arguing with?

At this point you're just as obnoxious as an AEW fanboy. You're literally just two sides of the same coin.

Did anyone honestly not expect WWE to not run opposition? I don’t think anyone was surprised. Omega wouldn’t have been shocked, so I don’t think this line of Omega “doesn’t want it” or whatever is really relevant. He knew this was coming day dot. It was a weird shot at WWE. A bit self-aggrandising, but I don’t know why anyone else working Saudi Arabia makes Omega a hypocrite. Bryan doesn’t go because they are shitty. Is he a hypocrite too because he opposes it while he works with Roman Reigns who doesn’t? Weird.

He also wouldn't have deleted the tweet after people starting mocking him for it.

I just replied to Mantis using his same argument. Just because Seth Rollins tweeted dumb stuff doesn't mean Omega didn't came off worse with his take. Seth looks like a heel, Kenny looks like a crybaby.

Solid point, and if Daniel Bryan started calling out Tony Khan on Twitter for all the damage he did in Detroit, I would say that's a bad card to play when you work for a company that takes money from Saudi Arabia.

Hypocrisy is Hypocrisy, regardless of what Wrestling Fed signs the wrestlers checks, which has been my stance all along.

ain't that the R-Truth

What "same argument"? What are you even talking about here? You are hard line defending Seth Rollins for being a dickhead by dragging Kenny Omega, who I am not defending at all, but definitely does not come off "worse". You also appear to be basing who is the "cool" idiot based entirely on their individual place of employment while accusing everyone else of being biased. What's the same?

Lmao I thought the same thing. Those guys aren't stars lol.

Your "even worse Seth Rollins using #teamwwe". I replied to that even worse about Omega, and that's where it started.

How is a hashtag worse than crying about competition?

Because Rollins stuck up for WWE with a hashtag. It is the most tame thing he tweeted, but to you that is worse???

Come on now. The only logical way you can think that is if you are biased, either against WWE or Seth Rollins, or you are biased for AEW and Kenny Omega.

That is not me caring who works for what company, that is you caring.

Exactly why it's ridiculous that Kenny was so bothered by it.

It's been stated why he was bothered with it, or supposedly bothered by it. It's a fair point. It still has nothing to do with Seth Rollins tho.