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Seth Rollins has revealed how he was ‘ready to strangle’ WWE Boss Vince McMahon following Hell In A Cell 2019.
Seth Rollins recently joined Steve Austin on Broken Skull Sessions, which you can watch on Peacock or the WWE Network.
During the interview, Austin brought up Rollins’ match against ‘The Fiend’ Bray Wyatt at Hell In A Cell 2019. During the infamous match, Rollins buried The Fiend in weapons and tools from under the ring, which led to an unusual referee stoppage and title retention for Rollins.
While Wyatt successfully captured the Universal Championship at Crown Jewel just a month later, this match tainted their feud and reigns as champion, and also lead to them receiving a ‘worst match of the year’ award.
“My vision for what that was going to be was a lot different than what we had to go out there and do,” Rollins recalled. “We went out there, and did what we were told to do, to the best of our ability.”
Rollins recalled the moments following the match, and the reaction he gave Vince McMahon once he got backstage. While he was ‘ready to strange’ McMahon, he has now managed to put a positive spin on it after looking back.
“I put a positive spin on it now that I can look back at it a year and a half later, but at the time — I came through that curtain and I was ready to strangle Vince McMahon,” Rollins said. “I’m not kidding you. I’m not kidding you, TJ Willson was there to hold me back. I stared right into Vince’s eyes — you know where he sits in that chair over there [in Gorilla] — I look at him, he looked at me, we didn’t say a single word to each other and he walked out.
“I sat there with Paul Heyman — and also, he was Creative Director at the time of RAW — so I sat down there with him and we had a conversation. He was ‘Paul Heyman’ing’ me, if you will. Then, the next day I went into Vince’s office — much calmer — and I said, ‘Let’s talk about this. We need to figure out what we’re doing here, because that can’t happen again.’ It was civil, but it took me a night [to calm down], but I was ready to go. Man, if somebody wasn’t there making sure I was okay — my temper, I mean, the adrenaline. In my head, if you go back to that match, I’m convinced if it would have went our way, this wouldn’t be on that [worst matches] list.
Former WWE star Bray Wyatt reacted to the comments, tweeting “Wait until you hear my reaction”
Wait until you hear my reaction.
— WYATT 6 (@Windham6) September 27, 2021
Special thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcription. You can watch Broken Skull Sessions now by clicking here.