Seth Rollins Talks The New Version Of His Character

[XIV]

Seth Rollins was recently interviewed by Ariel Helwani of BT Sport, where he spoke about the new version of his character he's been playing on WWE television as of late.

"In the beginning, I was kind of hesitant to just 100% go with it. But as I was just getting more comfortable in the character — because when I first started, I didn't really know, I didn't have a full grip on what the character was going to look like or where I was going to pull motivation from; I had a couple of ideas, but honestly, it was not where it's at now is not where I saw it at the beginning. The clothes were just like — I was trying to do something completely different, you know? Something that was off the wall, but a bit of a throwback to your Ric Flairs, or your Rick Rudes, or another one Gorgeous George. Just these flamboyant characters, and how could I modernize that, right?"

"So I was just like, let's do some stuff that's totally off the wall. Who are the celebrities now that are wearing some weird stuff? So I had had Troy and enlisted and he was gung ho on trying to find stuff and the first things he started to pass me were suits. So I was like, 'Okay,' and so we just kept doing the suits. Once I got comfortable in it, and people started to take note of it, it was like, 'Alright, let's get as weird as we can,' and so we just keep going. I see no end in sight."

On his colorful suits:

"I keep all of them. I have stories to them all. So, I'd say 70% of them are in the WWE archives. I sent them to Stamford oh, so they have them. But obviously, I keep accruing new suits so the closets are getting pretty full. Right now, it's just a matter of trying to figure out — some of them get shredded and ripped and they're gone, but a lot of them are just in the closet at home. We have one in LA and one in Iowa. I just filled them up until, hopefully, the archives want them and I can send them up there and they're just going to have trash bags full of worn Seth Rollins suits."

Source: Fightful.com

[XIV]

The problem with Rollins at the minute is that he feels stale. He isn't really going through any metamorphosis, his whole "Monday Night Messiah" character feels much like everything else he's done this last couple of years. He's just "Seth Rollins" at this point. He's going to wear loud suits, do a villain laugh and occasionally put on good matches. That's it.

[Big Red Machine]

The problem with Rollins at the minute is that he feels stale. He isn't really going through any metamorphosis, his whole "Monday Night Messiah" character feels much like everything else he's done this last couple of years. He's just "Seth Rollins" at this point. He's going to wear loud suits, do a villain laugh and occasionally put on good matches. That's it.

Yup.