Seth Rollins appeared to suffer a serious knee injury at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event over the weekend. But was the spot legitimate?
In the closing moments of the match between Seth Rollins and LA Knight on Saturday Night’s Main Event, Rollins appeared to injure his right knee, which he’s had a history of issues with. After being checked on by the referee and Paul Heyman, the match went right into the finish, with LA Knight picking up the victory.
While it was initially reported that Rollins’ injury was legitimate, we now have conflicting reports that this might have been the plan all along.
John Pollock of POST Wrestling is reporting that he was informed 48 hours ahead of Saturday Night’s Main Event that an injury angle with Rollins would be taking place to put him on crutches heading into SummerSlam next month.
“Here is what I have been told, and I will just share what I was told,” John Pollock began. “I was told two days before this to look out for an injury angle with Seth Rollins that would — it was even described to me, it would be an injury angle that gets him on crutches going into SummerSlam, something to that effect.
“So I was told this two days before the match happened. So the only possibilities here, if I had been told this the day after this had played, and someone is telling me this isn’t real, I would certainly need more information than that. The fact is, I was told this in advance. So this person is not psychic. They are not Nostradamus. There are only two options here. Is that this was a work, or they were planning a work, and he really did get hurt. And I don’t think that’s the case either.
Is another special Seth Rollins cash-in on the horizon?
“So I’m very confident that this is a storyline and this is going to play itself out. This part is just me speculating here, is that for Seth Rollins, his is probably the most like celebrated cash-in that WWE promotes with the big heist of the century, like he can’t just do a normal cash-in, they have to do something that is going to shock people. And certainly, this is a way. And believe me, I have heard they are going to go to great lengths on this one. I think they’re gonna try very hard to make everyone believe he’s out.
“I can’t speak for what they’re telling other people, or how many people know. I’m just conveying what I was told by a very, very good source. It’s not even a case of like trust or not trust. This happened as it was described to me 48 hours before the angle was executed. This is not a case of, well, maybe this will happen, maybe this won’t. We see it happened, it happened as it was described to me.”
A little bit of both?
Following Pollock’s report, Bryan Alvarez chimed in on the situation on Wrestling Observer Radio. Alvarez stated the mixed reports regarding Rollins right now stem from the fact that he is dealing with some sort of injury. However, it didn’t occur in the match with Knight on Saturday.
With the idea being that Rollins will be out of action for a bit, but will return much sooner than WWE suggests that he will.
What do you make of this overall report? Do you think Seth Rollins suffered a legitimate injury at WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event? Or do you think this was all a well-orchestrated work? Let us know your thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below.
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