Seth Rollins blows up his Knee out for 6+ months Stripped of title

Just read this. Can't believe it. He's been great, even if his booking has been questionable at times. It's a huge blow though and a real shame that his run has to end like this. 6-9 months is a long time as well, and he will be missed - he's been such an enjoyable champion and is fantastic in the ring.

Reigns will surely win it now. I've read mixed reports over the plans before this, with some saying that Rollins would keep the belt until Mannia and then lose it, or the most common seemed to be that Reigns would win at Survivor Series and he'd feud with Rollins for a long time.

There's going to be a tournament held to see who the champ will be next. WWE have said that the tournament will take place at the event. Now whether that's like their KOTR one where there was like one match to end the tournament with everything else happening before it, who knows. Hopefully not though - but I don't want to see a load of 6 minute matches either, this is for the title so everyone should be going all out and not giving up quickly. I want to see some good matches, even if it's just the semi-final and the final shown at Survivor Series as that'd give them all plenty of time to put on a show.

His booking has been the shits - but his performances in the ring have been brilliant. It's a shame he was injured - but what it does do is force WWE to make more main event stars since Daniel Bryan, Randy Orton, Seth Rollins are all out for a while, Cena is gone until December, Lesnar and Taker are part time - and that could make for some interesting television.

What they should do is make it an 8-man tournament with 16 qualifying matches leading up to the night of 4 matches with the eight that qualified - we could see some great matches in qualifying alone if they give people who usually would never get a shot at the title at least a fighting chance. They could even have someone like a Curtis Axel or a Damien Sandow go on a little bit of a winning streak, qualify for the tournament and get them to the semi final or something. They wouldn't win the title or anything but just getting that push in the tournament could give someone a fresh push lower down the card.

And how fitting is it that it will happen at Survivor Series? Whoever wins will have fought three matches and so it's gonna be a huge push for whoever it is.

Everyone is probably thinking Reigns, but WWE is known for throwing a curveball when everyone thinks they know what's going to happen, so it wouldn't surprise me if they did Ambrose (easily the most over face active right now) winning the tournament leading to Reigns turning heel a few months down the line for an Ambrose-Reigns match for the title at Mania.

Last edited by rhys (Fri-6-Nov-2015 15:24:49)

I agree with his poor booking... i know he is supposed to be the cowardly heel and all... but what has he had like two ppv wins since he became champion? they don't even let him do his daredevil high spots much at all anymore... i feel like Seth is being held back for whatever reason... i hope when he comes back he gets better booking maybe even a face turn at some point since he seemed like he is made to be a baby face especially when i go back and watch his indy runs.

I just don't see them turning Reigns heel anytime soon i know the dirt sheets say Ambrose is expected to turn heel.. and honestly i think that's a bit of a double edged  sword because he is so popular with fans and is just likeable... i guess we will see soon enough... i wish brock worked more dates i'd like him to have another championship run.

So apparently the plan actually was for Rollins to get Triple H at WrestleMania, which itself was a change from Hunter's original opponent, Rock. Now he has to find a third option! Ha!

It really sucks, Rollins' wrestling was always a highlight of every show. I won't miss his show-opening monologues though.

The good news out of all of these absences is that apparently Vince is actually considering bringing Daniel Bryan back. They really need him.