Night of Champions 2015: Rollins Pulling Double Duty

Two new matches added this week. Ziggler vs Rusev again, and Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns & a partner of their choosing vs. The Wyatt Family. Partner will more than likely be Orton.

I saw some promo from Sting on RAW from a few weeks back, where he's saying Seth Rollins is very good but he's no Triple H. So the world champion isn't as good as a 46 year old semi-retired wrestler, ok then. Then Sting goes on to say, that on Triple H's best day, Seth Rollins isn't half the man Triple H is.  They cut to Seth & Stephanie in a room and she agreed with Sting that Seth isn't half the man Triple H is.

This is a load of regurgitated drivel aimed at the lowest common denominator. How can you get any of these new guys over, if the elder statesmen are being portrayed as timeless legends and won't pass the torch. WWE is now at the point similar to WWF around 92/93. When Hogan, Macho Man, Warrior left, they never put anyone over so Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon had to start from scratch. You've just got to look at Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, they're the next crop and no-one has put them over. Would it really have hurt Undertaker, if he lost to Bray Wyatt at WrestleMania.

Four new matches added at Raw last night. Think we'll see Owens win the belt of Ryback, who's done pretty much nothing with the belt. New Day vs Dudleys should be fun as well.

If Rollins loses to Sting it'd be a travesty. He shouldn't be losing to a guy twice his age who has barely wrestled in the past year or two. He's way past his prime, so him beating Rollins would do more harm that good by a long way, even if Rollins does have to pull double duty - you'd assume that the US Title match would be one of the first on the card.

It's frustrating when people like Ryback have the belt and WWE does nothing with it. I know Ryback isn't exactly a revolutionary; but with the right opponents and the right stories they could have made his IC Title run at least memorable. Instead, they stuck him with Big Show and Miz for three months and now what could be a good feud (vs Owens) will no doubt just end on Sunday after Owens wins (Ryback may get a rematch on RAW but that'll be it). If a big guy has a belt like Ryback has, they should use it as an opportunity to make him dominant, but this run for Ryback has been terrible. Owens v Ryback will probably be a good match, two big guys who can give us a good brawl, but I wish there was a substantial story behind it instead of a rushed, 2-week build up.

The Six-Man Tag with Shield and Wyatts: The mystery partner will probably be Erick Rowan; but a small part of me thinks because they are waiting until Sunday to reveal, it's gonna be a bigger name? I wouldn't mind Rowan being revealed, it at least sort of makes sense - but he's not a "let's wait a month to reveal who he is" guy and I got a feeling the reveal will fall flat. Should be a decent match though based on former Shield vs Wyatt matches.

I see Rollins losing the US Title back to Cena and retaining the WWE Title. Maybe a Sheamus cash in but I feel like they've pushed it too much now so maybe it won't happen.

Honestly, the match I'm most looking forward to is New Day vs The Dudleyz.

It's a pretty underwhelming PPV really. I'm interested in the Tag Title match... Diva's division is still meh at the moment as they're clearly not that serious about it all, love seeing Owens on PPV's so hope he wins, but it's against Ryback so not expecting a good match... Ziggler v Rusev seen before and didn't care then... Sting shouldn't even be having a title match and is limited in the ring... don't care for the Wyatt feud or the Neville/Stardust feud.

Hopefully I'll end up surprised and it'll be a good PPV, but it's just not one to give me any excitement over it.

Well I didn't end up too excited after all, didn't think I would be.

Odd to see Rollins have to defend both titles one after the other like that, which in the end just made Sting look weak as hell. Glad Rollins retained as he should have done, but man did that match do nothing at all for Sting. If they'd done the Cena match as the first of the night, Rollins could have had a proper match at the end and Sting would have looked a lot better... instead he looks weak.

As much as I like seeing Jericho back (seriously, who doesn't like Jericho?!), I was disappointed it was him as Reign's and Ambroses surprise partner. That was proper random and I just couldn't figure out why. Someone like The Rock you could understand, being related to Reigns, Jericho though was just random.

Oh, and a fan jumping the barricade AGAIN? It's getting ridiculous now. People who do that are idiots, but it really makes me question how slow the security is. We've seen a few recently, most high profile being on Raw the other night were a fan walked from the top of the ramp down to the ring with Rollins, and last night a fan actually getting into the ring. The moment a fan crosses the barricade I expect to see security running at them to take them down, not asking myself where the hell security is. You'd hope at least that people are searched thoroughly before going in as in both cases if the guy had a knife the wrestler would be dead before anyone did anything about it. I hope the next time some dumb ass does this the wrestler closest to him puts the guy down with a punch to the face - I'm sure they'd be able to claim self defence or something easily enough.

I guess Sting is hurt pretty bad... messed up his back/neck, i've heard Meltzer thinks its a career ender.

It's too bad Sting lost like that... after Rollins had a tough match with Cena... i just wish they could have used the injury Sting was suffering from to excuse him from losing via small package... cause it makes a shitload of sense if you hurt your back or neck you might not have enough inner strength to escape such a pinfall.

The future doesn't look bright right now... not really feeling a Rollins/Kane/Sheamus feud.

I just rewatched the match and I was a bit harsh before. It really wasn't that bad, but I do wish that Rollins had a break between matches. It does make Sting look weak, even if he is injured, and Rollins wrestled for close to an hour.

Sting did look pretty messed up tho, hopefully it's not a career ender.

I really hope we don't get a Rollins vs Kane feud. That'd just need awful. It would be nice if he could have a good feud with someone like Ziggler. Ziggler doesn't have to win the belt, butbut we'd get good to great Title matches and would make his title reign more memorable. He's really impressed as the champion I think. His in ring work is excellent and his mic skills have improved so much. Just give him a good meaningful feud already with someone that is as good as he is.