Former WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins recently spoke with TV Insider. During the interview, he discussed a wide variety of topics including standing up to critics of WWE.
Over the past few months, the top star on the red brand has voiced his opinion in the defense of WWE from criticism coming from fans and wrestlers. He’s made it well known that he thinks WWE has the best wrestling on the planet right now and voiced his critical belief of the comments made by Jon Moxley about his time in WWE. He has also taken shots at AEW.
For Rollins, he thinks that people believe it’s cool to criticize WWE because they’re the biggest pro wrestling company in the world.
“I have always been proud to work for the company. I just think it got to where it became cool to criticize WWE because we are so big and popular. It just sucks that this is the society we live in now where it’s much easier to point out all the things you think is bad as opposed to pointing out all the awesome stuff that is going on in the world. It just felt to me nobody was standing up for WWE when we have a lot to be proud of.
If taking on a leadership role is what you want to call it, it’s certainly something where I stepped forward and put my foot down…The fact I had people from different departments shoot me texts to let me know they had my back because they felt I had their back. That was cool and validating. I felt really good I was representing many people who felt the way I felt.”
The SummerSlam pay-per-view event takes place on Sunday, August 11, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario at the Scotiabank Arena. At this show, Rollins challenges Brock Lesnar for the Universal Title.
