Hour 2: Guest Host Seth Rollins’ Top 5 WWE SummerSlam Moments, plus NFL Sleeper Teams Draft: Round 2

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1:46And I am feeling some type of way with these shades on, man. I feel like I want to cut a promo. I want to just fire up. I want to lose my mind. But I got to figure out, what do I want to cut a promo on? Who do I want to cut a promo on? What am I upset about? I could think of something. Yeah, I know. Me too. There's a guy sitting in the corner. You should be mad at me. If any of you out there have a thought about what I cut a promo. The boys have joined me with their glasses on. They were a lot. Everybody's got the shades on. Nice. Nice. This is good. This is good. This is good. If you've got your shades on at home, call us.

2:20Let us know. 844-204-RIT. We are taking callers. If you've got any questions about life, about football, about SummerSlam, Win-loss game? Yeah, win-loss games. Anything you want. Let's hear it. Anything you want. We are on Disney +, ESPN app, ESPN radio series, XM channel 80. Please give us a follow, Rich Eisen Show, on X and Instagram. I'm not on X. I'm off.

2:49Brockman:You're a Threads guy, right? I'm a Threads guy. I've moved to Threads, yeah. I've Threaded now. I'm still on the Gram, though. WWE Rollins, if you want some of that. subscribe to the channel youtube channel youtube.com slash uh rich eisen show um all right i'll take the shades off and let's get down to some serious business here because yesterday on the show uh brockman you stirred the pot a little bit you stirred up some controversy you had a power less power less rankings yeah i had the top 10 you know summer stories that i'm already yeah Just kind of over, sick up, don't want to hear anymore.

3:27There was one specific one that caught my eye. Oh. Yeah. And I've got a bit of a bone to pick. So let's get to it. Let's hear it. And then let's talk about it. We're a Seth Rollins show around here. Enough of acknowledging Roman Reigns. Here's the deal. It's been how many years and this guy's still looking for acknowledgement? Like, are you an only child begging for acceptance and love? Like, what is going on with this? What are we doing? Enough with that. This is Seth Rollins neighborhood over here. Enough acknowledging Roman Reigns. I'm over it. Yeah. That's my guy. There we go, Brockman. He gets you, guys.

4:10Come on. This guy gets it. He understands, all right? On the other hand, over here, we had TJ Jefferson, and O'Shea was sitting in this chair. O'Shea Jackson Jr. sitting in this chair, and he scoffed. He scoffed that you were upset with Roman Reigns. He's a Roman guy. Oh, is he now? I mean, you know that. I just saw O'Shea not that long ago. I heard. He looked at me, smiled, gave me a big old hug. He was so, he's in backstage at one of our shows this past weekend. He was right there for the main event. It was a terrible night for me, but at the end of the day, he was there and he was all glad-handing me.

4:51Of course. We were best friends, you know? And then he comes out here and he does something like that. And I got to ask myself, what are we doing here, guys? What are we doing here? You're right, Brockman. How much acknowledgement does this guy need? How much do we need to just put a finger in the air and acknowledge Roman Reigns? How long is this going to go on? What is this? What kind of validation are you seeking, sir? How much do you really need? Come on, get over it. We get it. Tribal chief, head to the table. Yada, yada, yada. You got the teeth. You know, it's all there. We get it. We've acknowledged you.

5:28Plenty. Time to move on. Let's move on. That's what I'm saying. And the reason I bring all this up is because WWE has a very large event coming up in a week in Minneapolis, U.S. Bank Stadium. There it is. Let's go. SummerSlam, two nights, August 1st, August 2nd. It's on the ESPN app with the ESPN Unlimited plan. Netflix, if you are overseas. and you're looking at the graphic right there the generational battle reigns versus rollins world heavyweight championship on the line this is uh man this is a big one for me guys this is a big one for me i mean you know i had to relinquish my world heavyweight championship back in october when i uh hurt my shoulder um and now i'm coming back this is my first crack back at getting that title that I never lost.

6:21And the fact that it's sitting on Roman's shoulder, who's a guy that I've got a ton of history with. It's going to be a special night main event of SummerSlam, two-night SummerSlam. It's an electric SummerSlam. I mean, there's a lot going on in the SummerSlam. The other title match is, what did you call it? Charles Montgomery? Yeah. Punk, is that how you refer to him? Chick Magnet.

6:43Brockman:Chicago-made cookie monster. Chick Magnet Punk. Craig Montgomery, if you watch As the World Turns. Yeah, so CM Punk is defending the WWE Championship against the American Nightmare Cody Rhodes. That should be a barn burner. You've got a Hell in a Cell match. Brock Lesnar versus the ruler Oba Femi. Oba. Oba. You know, Oba's got the record for most appearances on No Contest Wrestling. Is that true? Yeah. That is an actual truth. Yeah, he's on our pod more than anyone else at this point. That is shocking. Why is that shocking? Well, because Oba doesn't actually do a ton of media. Well, you know. He doesn't do a ton of media.

7:25Brockman:You know, I don't want to toot my own horn, but I also heard a quote. I can't believe you got John Cena the rat with you. You know he tells everyone no. Tell me no. So, I mean, I'm just saying. Is there a ring and cell big enough for those two giants? Oh, yeah. We're going to find out. It's going to hold those guys? My Lord. I think there's Brock Lesnar's undefeated as well. I believe he is, yeah. Also, we've got an interim Women's World Championship ladder match happening. We only know that Tiffany Stratton and Jade Cargo are involved. There's still three spots open. Five women are going to be in that thing.

7:55It wouldn't surprise me if a man joined the women in that match. Well, you know, it seems like they're SmackDown superstars. My wife is a Raw superstar. Yeah, but you know that doesn't matter. It doesn't always matter. We'll see what happens. I don't know about that. on the Raw side. You know, Sky is challenging Liv Morgan for the women's WWE championship.

8:15Brockman:I love Liv. They've both been on the pod. You know who hasn't been on the pod yet? Who's that? That's you. We got to get you on. Call my people. Set it up. I call you directly. Well, then send me a text. I just figured you didn't like us because O'Shea didn't, you know, I would love to get into it with O'Shea. So I just assume that, you know, you didn't want to come on because you didn't like us. Come on now. Come on. I like at least half of his. And could I point something out real quick? You know, Brockman says he's over acknowledging Roman, and you're like, we're acknowledging this. Am I wrong for pointing out that you kind of caused all this?

8:54Brockman:How did I cause this? What have I caused? Well, a certain still chair shot to the back changed everything, and that led us on the path that we're on right now. So look, man, I ain't got the dog in the fight. don't like you both but i'm just saying like i have a uh so i did it i i'll tell you this you're right you're right i created the trajectory that we're all on right now i did that way back in 2014 when i broke up the shield by putting a chair in roman's back and like last time you're here we correlated it to the celdics breaking up brown and tatum there you go so but what i what i wanted to get at was I have recorded a sit-down interview with a broadcaster at WWE, Jackie Redman.

9:42I filmed it this past week on Raw. It'll air on the SummerSlam pre-show, which will be on ESPN, ESPN2, something like that. It'll also probably be on YouTube during the week after we have Monday Night Raw this coming Monday at Into a Dome, which is our last episode before SummerSlam. It'll probably be on YouTube at some point. All the information you ever wanted about that chair shot and what it meant and the sort of butterfly effect that it has had over the past decade will be available in that interview really great interview it i think it's worth your time if you're interested in the history and what this match really means to me to roman and to this industry i think um it's worth your listen worth your watch so absolutely that's that's a little teaser like that but since we're on the topic of summer slam i have had a pretty good history at summer slam true that i would call myself Mr.

10:35SummerSlam as a matter of fact. I would argue that anybody of any generation has had a better SummerSlam than me. Like better moments stacked up over time. And because of this, we are going to get to my top five SummerSlam moments of all time brought to you by our friends at Hyundai. High five. One, two, three, four, five. Seth Rollins. Top five. I love that. That's so good. All right. We're going to start at number five. Semi-recent, six years ago, 2020, during the pandemic era, I am wrestling Dominic Mysterio. The younger Mysterio, now known as Dirty Dom, is finally coming to his own. At this time, he was just Rey Mysterio's stupid little son.

11:26Look at him there in the Rey Mysterio gear with all of the images in the background because we didn't have any fans there. It was really a special time. But for me, it was really special because Rey is someone that I've looked up to my entire career. He's someone who I've always loved since I used to watch him in WCW as Cruiserweight Champion to his WWE debut at SummerSlam against Kurt Angle, one of the greatest debuts of all time. And it was an honor for me to bring Dominic Mysterio into the fold at SummerSlam, his first match on a huge pay-per-view. And I'm wearing there, You can see the Rey Mysterio gear that he wore.

12:02Made very famous at a hauling havoc against Eddie Guerrero. RIP way back in the day. So that's number five. Number four. This is kind of a two-parter, but we're going to go with the more recent version. 2023, I get redemption when I beat Finn Balor to retain the World Heavyweight Championship. Now, the reason I say I get redemption is because way back, 2016, SummerSlam, Finn Balor and myself for the inaugural Universal Championship, the old big red title that we had. And I lost that match. And Finn and I, you know, it's a long story history. His shoulder, he had a shoulder injury from a powerbomb that I gave him into a guardrail during that match.

12:45And we never really felt like we got to have the match that we wanted. This was sort of a redemption for both of us. Very happy that I got the win. Look at that frog splash. Look at that. Look at that extension. That is beautiful. That is a great shot. Whoever took that deserves a raise. So 2023, great match. Great opponent. Finn Balor, one of the very best to do it. Number three, 2019. It starts to get really tough now. This is a big one for me. Seth Rollins versus Brock Lesnar. The main event of SummerSlam. We're in Toronto for the Universal Championship. And I had beat Brock Lesnar earlier in the year at WrestleMania for the title.

13:25He had won Money in the Bank. He cashed in on me. So he was going in as the champion. I was going into SummerSlam to try to get the title back. And I was able to do a lot of run-ins with Brock Lesnar over the years. He is one of, if not the craziest athletes I've ever been in the ring with in my entire life. And, you know, sometimes those matches aren't what you want them to be. the SummerSlam match against Brock Lesnar was a quintessential David versus Goliath underdog story. And I was so proud of the way that one turned out to be able to be in there with Brock and have what I felt was a classic SummerSlam match.

14:02And I got the win. Got my title back. Very nice. Very nice. Now, number two. Ooh, baby. This was a tough one. Taking it back. 2015. Seth Rollins versus John Cena. Winner take all. I'm the WWE champion. John is the UNS champion. We're going in to see who is going to leave Brooklyn with both titles. And with a little help from my friend, John Stewart, I was able to defeat John Cena in the main event and take on both titles in the infamous White Ranger gear there. It still lives. Right now, that gear is on display in the Minneapolis airport. No way, man, really? That's right. If you're on your way to Minneapolis right now, you can get a glimpse of that actual gear in all of its glory.

14:53There I am. Two titles, double champ. It didn't last too long. I had them for maybe a month or two, but it was a very special night. Obviously working with the greatest of all time, John Cena, SummerSlam, main event. Really special. I was there. I'm quite jacked there, I will say. You were. I'm in great shape.

15:11Brockman:I was in the house for this one. You were in there. Was it everything that you thought? Oh, I was losing my mind. I got a video of me, like, you know, going nuts when you got the three count there. It's a good time. Good time. And finally, the number one moment in my SummerSlam history. There's a lot to choose from. I thought about going way back to my first lumberjack match at SummerSlam. I looked around. But really, guys, is there anything better than the ruse? Yeah. Is there anything better? I mean, the show played a major part in that. Obviously, shake it back to 2025. It wasn't even a match that I was in.

15:52I was on the shelf with a severe knee injury that we couldn't quite diagnose. But when the time came, I was able to shed the crutches, run down, hit Charles Montgomery Punk in the face with that beautiful black and gold briefcase, stomp his head straight into the mat and take the World Heavyweight Championship for my own followed the greatest cash-in of all time at Wrestlemania was the second greatest cash-in of all time at SummerSlam so I am 1-2 in the books for great cash-ins and that was probably, arguably my greatest SummerSlam moment of all time and thank you thank you to you for being such a big part of it how does it feel one year later um gosh there's a lot's going on since then how does it feel one year later well the crazy part is i'm fighting for the title that i cashed in on him that night right a title that i never lost he is he being cn punk is now walking into summer slam with the other heavyweight championship so uh it's it's very interesting um you know and i'm on the other side of the coin now where i'm i'm kind of people like me again you know i'm not such a villain anymore.

17:08Although, I don't know, when it comes to Roman Reigns, I do feel like I'm the bad guy. I feel like I'm the bad guy.

17:15Brockman:For you, you're going to get probably, you both are going to get cheered, but you're probably going to get a little bit more booze. And you're wearing all black too. That's, you know, notoriously a bad guy color. I mean, that was my top five. It was brought to you by Hyundai. Get in to the Hyundai getaway sales event and get away with a deal so right it almost feels wrong. Visit Hyundai USA. dot com for details. What did you guys think of that list? Did we do good? Did we do alright? That was a great list. Proper top five? I was at that SummerSlam in 2015. The whole Jon Stewart thing was kind of weird.

17:48Brockman:It was weird. But it involved another steel chair. Jon Stewart gets in the ring guys and there's Cena, there's Seth and what's Jon Stewart going to do? And guts Jon Cena with the chair, runs out, Seth blasts him and then goes nuts. And like I said, I have the whole thing on my phone. I've recorded like the last minute of it. But, you know, that's a wild time in my life. I got to go, like, hang out on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Like, we did it a couple times, I think. You know, I built, like, a rapport with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. And I think, like, because it's been over 10 years, it's kind of like one of those things that drifts away in the memory bank.

18:27And we start talking about it, and I go, man, I have gotten to do so many amazing things being a professional wrestler in WWE that I have forgotten about being on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Like how... And then he interfered in your match. He helped me become a double champion at one of the big four pay-per-views in WWE. Like that's crazy, man. That's craziness. I can't even believe it sometimes. You gotta pinch yourself, you know? You gotta be... You just gotta be fortunate. Cool. The things you get in life, you just never know.

19:02Brockman:But now look at it. Now you're doing yourself what Jon Stewart does too. So that in itself is also kind of amazing, right? I mean, I'm sitting here in the Rich Eisen chair, hosting the Rich Eisen show with you fine folks. And it's the coolest thing. I get to talk about life and sports and football. I mean, what kind of, look, I grew up in a tiny town, guys, of Buffalo, Iowa. I'm a Midwestern kid. The town had like 900 people in it. You know what I mean? Like, what am I doing? It's amazing. Life is so cool. Buffalo, Iowa. Are you looking it up? In the 2020 census, 1 ,176 people. That's right. I was not exaggerating.

19:43Wow. That's incredible. You can imagine in 1990 how many people they had there.

19:47Brockman:That's in 2020. Also, the first thing I told Seth this morning, he did two hours on Good Morning Football. Now he's doing three hours. To do five hours of live television without him, not a lot of people get to do that. Like I told you, Macho Man Randy Savage never got to do that. Bret Hart never did it. Shawn Michaels never did it. Stone Cold never did it. The Rock never did it. Seth Rollins, you're getting to do it. I'm getting to do it. I have the privilege of sitting in the Rich Eisen chair. And I'm telling you guys, it's not lost on me. So again, thank you guys for having me. We love you.

20:19That was a great top five. It was nice to go down memory lane. We got more on the Rich Eisen show with Seth freaking Rollins coming up next.

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22:44Terms and conditions apply. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. We are back here on the Rich Eisen Show. I am Seth Freakin' Rollins filling in for Rich today. Got the boys, Brockman. Yeah, yeah. Del Tufo. Great last name.

23:04Brockman:Thank you. And Jefferson, also great, but Del Tufo. When you got two, it's great. It's great. We are here. Give us a call, 844-204-RICH, Disney Plus ESPN app. We are on the ESPN radio, Sirius Channel 80. Throwing it down. Let's get to some callers, shall we? Let's get to one. We got one on the list. We got Jimmy. Jimmy from San Antonio. You in?

23:38There he is. Jimmy in San Antonio. All right, Mr. Rollins. Yes, sir. A.K. The Big Faker. I'll get to you in a second. And I got a shout out to TJ, Chris Brockman Tiana. I know you hyphenated. Happy birthday, guys. Thank you, Jimmy.

23:54Brockman:Appreciate it, man. Appreciate you, bro. Jimmy, thanks. No Tufo. Are you okay? That's four days in a row. Is the boat okay? What's going on? Boat's fine. You got to pay for that boat, Jimmy. That's why, exactly. Gas is expensive. I was worried. No, I'm good, Jimmy. Thanks, brother. Mr. Rollins, it's a pleasure to visit with you for a second time. Everyone knows I prefer Susie, but it's not personal. Respect. And is that outfit from the Shallon Monk Fall Collection? It's very impressive, by the way. Well, thank you very much. This outfit is from the King Troy Collection. People should tune in on all the apps that he previously mentioned to see the wardrobe.