Seth Rollins was a recent guest on Logan Paul’s podcast Impaulsive. They discuss their match at WrestleMania 39, the fan that attacked Rollins on Raw, what Vince McMahon thought of The Visionary theme song and more.
The most interesting quotes can be found below:
On the match between Seth Rollins and Logan Paul at WrestleMania:
“Yeah, we got a new title in the house since you and I tangled at WrestleMania, the World Heavyweight Championship. You know what, I will accept that [compliment]. I will be honest with you, I was a bit sceptical of your venture into WWE. But the hard work that you put forth leading into WrestleMania and the effort that you and KSI put forward in the contest, there is a level of respect that comes with that. There’s a level of respect when you get in there, you tango with anybody at WrestleMania on a stage like that. There’s a level of respect that comes with that. I’m with you, we will put it behind us, we will be professionals here, just don’t come anywhere near the World Heavyweight Title please [laughs].”
On being in his prime:
“I feel like I am just starting my prime. It’s an interesting [thing], I am just starting to get into it. I have been wrestling since roughly 16-17 years old, so 20 years now. In our industry, there are some exceptions, Dwayne The Rock Johnson is an exception, obviously. He’s sort of a part of the business for his entire life because his family was in it. But his real run was like 4 years, it was tiny. But for the most part, you need years and years of experience, thousands of matches, you’ve got to build the equity with your audience. So I am at that point now, I am 37, I’ve got this maybe 6 to 10 year window, depending on my health, where I am going to be in the sweet spot where my body can still go but my brain has finally caught up to where I am physically. So mentally and physically I haven’t deteriorated, I am in that perfect zone. I am not where you are athletically, but I am still pushing it, mentally I can read the room before I go out there, it’s like cake for me. So I am in the one for 6 to 10 years depending on how my body holds up, but who knows. Then I will turn into The Undertaker and come once a year for WrestleMania. But I am feeling really good right now.”
On Rey Mysterio:
“I mean, I have no reason to believe that he is saying anything but the truth because he is just unreal. He’s one of one. I mean, that guy, I think he turns 50 soon. And like what are we talking about? Watch him in the ring. It’s unbelievable, he hasn’t aged a day. I was talking about entering my prime. And he’s like, he’s just like I said one of one. He’s like a freak, dude. And I’ll say this might be a hot take, but he’s one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. And I think you know, people kind of like, oh, well, he wears a mask like there’s all these kinds of like, oh, but this, but that, you know. He’s not like a great promo, he’s not like a, you know, a Rock an Austin a Hogan. Like he’s not on that [level]. But he is, if you look at the totality of his career and the influence that he’s had for over generations, I say one the greatest. You could arguably include him on a Mount Rushmore, if you want to go that far.”
Logan Paul hated being booed at first:
“I asked because I’m obviously a heel, and I like it. But I didn’t at first. When I first got there, and people started booing me. I really took it personally. I just didn’t understand. I didn’t understand. No, I was p*ssed. Bruce Prichard came back. He was like that was amazing, they hate you. Why is that amazing? Like, I’m affected by this. Now I eat it up. It’s so fun. And I’ve started to play with just one on one interactions with people in the front row who are booing me? I gotta say that WWE fans have balls. These people, I will get in their face. And they’re flipping me off. F*ck you. I’m right here like, oh, yeah, I’m sorry, sir. I could end your life where you stand. I obviously won’t because it’s illegal. But the fact that they have no regrets, they have no signs of backing down right in front of my face.”
On the fan attacking Seth Rollins on Raw:
“So first of all, this guy, I feel, I want to preface it by saying I felt [horrible] when I found out about everything. I felt very bad for this guy. This guy, you know, he’s, there’s some mental disability going on there. His connection from reality. He’s not all there. He was catfished online, by somebody pretending to be me, I believe. There was some amount of money exchanged for whatever he was, you know, being asked for. And this is not a new phenomenon like that. People will do this with, it happens a lot with our girls, right? So people will catfish as our female superstars and like, they’ll just prey on these people who are a little slower. And they’ll be like, they’ll prey on them. And they’ll be like, Oh my brother’s sick in the hospital, could you send you know money, but they don’t ask for money. They ask for it in like gift cards. And so like, it’s insane. There was one with Becky actually. And we ended up this person finally figured out, they were being catfished or something. They showed up in the front row of a show, and brought this Ziploc bag of gift cards that they had sent. Because what they’ll do is they’ll buy them and they’ll scratch the codes off and then just send the codes via whatever, you know, via text. And then the person gets all the cash from the gift card. And it was like, I mean, when I added it all up, we’re talking 1000s of dollars, 1000s of dollars that they had given to Becky for her brother in the hospital or something like that, it was wild. So basically, this guy had been catfished by somebody pretending to be me asking for money for whatever crises they were going through and this guy had give him some money. And he had reached his breaking point. So we’re in Brooklyn, and he jumps, I finished a match with Finn Balor and I’m coming to the back. And I’m walking up the ramp like I always do and our floor camera there in the aisles Stewie is just following me like he always does. And then like I it happened instantly to me like, because I’m not even thinking like, Oh, somebody’s going to come out of the audience. I should be ready for this. You know, that’s what we have security for. I think security is for, and you just don’t think that’s gonna happen. So like, your brain is shut off from that part, you’re just in the performance. You’re like, I’m just talking to Stewie. I’m just, you know, talking sh*t, just doing my thing. I was a bad guy at the time. So I’m just dancing around doing my weird Seth Rollins stuff, and I’m not paying any attention. And like, in retrospect, what I remember is seeing somebody come around the corner running, which isn’t unusual, either, because sometimes they’re setting up Pyro in the entrance for somebody else. And he was wearing, you know, like in t-shirts and pants, so like he was kind of nondescript. And so I just saw him running and didn’t think anything of it. And then like button, next thing I know, he’s cutting corner, and just zips right by Stewie and just straight football tackles me, form tackles me right there on the ramp. And it was terrifying because I was, like I said, I’m not prepared. So my instinct was to just try to get a hold of his head. And he’s kind of like, clawing at me, like he didn’t have any weapons. Thank God, he had nothing on him, you know, but he’s like, just kind of clawing, he’s not really thrown any punches or anything like that. Think he’s like grabbing my hair. So I haven’t trying to get him but he’s like a little ball. He’s a stout man, but he’s short. So he’s like a little ball. So like, I couldn’t quite get a hold of him. And like, security jumped quick, our referee actually jumped quick. Everybody was trying to get him off, but he had a hold of my hair. I haven’t divulged this part of the story yet. To try to dislodge him, the only thing that I could do was I didn’t want to punch him. I didn’t want to hit him. The only thing that I could do, I saw like he was on top of me. All I saw was his legs. So I just reached up and just, I had to get this guy off, I didn’t know what was going on. So I just reached up and snatch, it was a squeeze, just a squeeze, a hard, hard squeeze. He had my hair and he finally got you know prior. It got him off. It was nerve wracking. Especially in the moment once I realised, you know, a split second after he got me when I realised was going on. I mean, if he had a shank if he had any sort of sharp object, I would have just been slice and dice, man. It’s very, very scary.”
On The Visionary theme song:
“Dude I debut this song at WrestleMania and 2021 It was in Tampa we only had like, it was a half capacity WrestleMania it was still like, Oh, we’re back, but we’re not back. Because we didn’t go back to full scale live events until like, August of that year, but in March we did WrestleMania outdoors, Tampa let us have half the people. So we did it and Raymond James did the song and when I was putting this on together, I kind of had a vision for like what I wanted people to do. And when we first put the song out, Vince McMahon was actually you know, he had heard it, he was just hearing it for like the first or second time and he actually took a set of the woah, he didn’t get he didn’t get the whoas. He was like, ah, that’s not that’s not Seth Rollins. That’s not Seth Freaking Rollins. And I’m like, I’m telling you, he’s like, no, no, no, just trust me. I’m like, Fine, I’ll trust you. You’ve only been doing this for 80 years, whatever. So like, he took the woes out, but in the back of my mind, I was like, t, you just wait, you just wait, no, they never went back in. The version you hear now is still the Vince version. But there’s enough of the woes that it caught on. And so it took a while because I was a heel, no one was singing my song, they didn’t care at first. And we weren’t in front of people. So it wasn’t till August that the songs debuted in front of people like you know, regularly. So then fast forward to 2022 ish. And like, it didn’t happen for me, I and I’ve told this a little bit, but I’ll tell you guys here, I’m kind of a heel through most of 2022, worked with the Edge, invaded his home, did all this bad stuff that I shouldn’t do. But eventually I ended up working with Matt riddle. And there’s this episode of Raw we did at Madison Square Garden. And at the end of the show, I remember what happened, Riddle has this match at the end of the show, I come out and I stomp this man’s head into steel steps, into steel steps. And normally, as a bad guy, this elicits a chorus of boos because Matt riddle is a fan favourite, but I stomped this guy’s head into steps and I turn around expecting boos and the crowd is just singing the song in the garden and I’m like okay, I think this is a thing now, I think this is going to be a thing. And sure enough little by little it just starts picking up picking up picking up picking up and then it turned into its own animal man to the point where you couldn’t get a word in edgewise. Did a thing with Finn Balor on raw few weeks ago like to the point where people online that Twitterverse like it’s annoying it’s too it’s we don’t like this it’s the new what chant and I’m like come on guys.”
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