WWE Superstar Seth Rollins Feels He Will Be Out For An Extended Period Of Time

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1:15Pump up the volume. This is the Rich Eisen Show. And we're actually going to get to talk baseball with Clayton. I'm going to try to throw some cheese real quick. Hold on. From the Rich Eisen Show studio in Los Angeles. Smoltee, what do you want? Cut her in. Slide her in. I don't throw a cutter. He doesn't slide her in. Don't say cutter. Hey, sit him down. The Rich Eisen Show with guest host WWE superstar Seth Rollins. Today's guests, Steelers defensive tackle Cam Hayward. Bears cornerback Jalen Johnson. And now, sitting in for a ridge, it's WWE superstar Seth Rollins.

1:57Let's go! Oh, man. I am still popping for that intro. I had not seen the intro for the first time. I'm seeing it. That is incredible. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Seth Rollins show. So in case you are unfamiliar with the voice you are hearing, the face you are seeing, I am a visionary. I am a revolutionary. I am a WWE superstar, multi-time WWE champion, WrestleMania main eventer, the one, the only, Seth freaking Rollins.

2:47I appreciate the serenade. That's what I'm used to. So thank you, guys. Thank you. While I am here sitting in the Rich chair, I am joined by this lovely cast of characters that Rich normally has. Chris over here to my left. Jason Feller right in front of me. And over in the corner. I didn't realize you were so far in the corner. I didn't realize. You're so far. You might as well be on an island. Somewhere in the Pacific. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only TJ Jefferson. You know, I'm going to treat you like, treat us like a house show, right? So you got to play to the people way up top. I'm the person way up top.

3:25Oh, you're in the nosebleeds. You're in the nosebleeds. There is a difference. There is a difference between the house shows, the live events, the non-televised events, and the television. You do have to work a little bit differently. But yeah, guys, I'm here. I can't believe it. We talked about this. Rich invited me to be a host on the show many months ago. Yeah, how long ago was that? I'm not even sure. We were in Green Bay. No, that was before Green Bay. It was before Green Bay. It was before. It was Super Bowl. Then there was Super Bowl in New Orleans when he first brought it up. Yeah, I thought it was a joke.

3:59Yeah. I thought he was just being kind, you know? You look on your face like, are you serious? I didn't think it was real, but here we are. It has all come to fruition. I am excited to be here. Thank you guys so much for having me. It is, I'm going to do my best. I'm going to be honest with you. This is, in case you didn't know, not my first job. Not my first gig. I didn't go to college for broadcast journalism. I know nothing about this. So I'm leaning on you guys. I'm leaning on all the callers at home. Anybody who wants to chat with us, please call in. We have a number for that, actually. 844-204-RICH.

4:39please give us a call. Give me your thoughts, questions. You can talk about sports, talk about wrestling, talk about my incredible style, talk about anything you want. My beautiful wife, Rebecca Quinn, Becky Lynch, whatever you want. My daughter, anything. You ask, I'll answer. Unless I don't want to answer, then I'll tell you to F right off. That's what we're going to do. What was your major in college? College, what? You didn't go to school? What did you study? i studied wrestling i studied pro wrestling look when i was like 14 or so i was like look ma dad i want to be a pro wrestler and they shook their head and they were like okay yeah sure whatever kid um and that just didn't stop and by the time i was 18 i was like look i want to train to be a pro wrestler this is what's going to happen when i get out of school but they i put in the effort like i'd gone to the gym my buddies and i were doing shows in our backyard for a while they don't try this at home.

5:36I'm not advocating for that, but we were doing it. You know, it was, it was just like, uh, it was just like playing football, like in your backyard for us, it was wrestling. And so I, uh, I decided to, uh, to get into it. And, uh, my parents were supportive. My mom said she would allow me to do this, allow me to live in her house. Uh, if I went to the local community college. So I just went, took the gin, the basics. Yeah. And after two years I was like, Hey ma, this is going kind of good like you know i could think i could really really do well at it if you just let me stop going to school and uh fortunately she made the right call so here we are years later and uh things are good my mom's actually moving out to los angeles by the way no way no yeah she's moving out to be i mean she's still in davenport no she's in davenport iowa been there for the last 30 40 years she's moving to los angeles has nothing to do with me entirely to be with her granddaughter oh yeah you don't matter yeah yeah i'm like nothing to do with i'm totally a side project but yeah she's gonna be here uh sometime soon at the end of this month very excited to have her on board that's awesome um and by the way they say mother knows best she knew best she made sure you wanted best and then told you that i'm nothing i'm nothing without my mom to this day my mom my mom still handles you're looking at three mama's boys over here so guilty as charged she's a goat she's as good as they come so yeah um but let's jump into it let's talk about first my weekend let's do it let's just let's just get that out of the way right we need to talk about it um i'm sitting down i look great i can see myself on the monitor right here i look i look great i'm not gonna lie uh but underneath this monitor i do have a leg brace on over in the corner are my crutches uh this past saturday i was in a match on uh saturday night's main event which we uh special on NBC on Peacock I was in a match with LA Knight and I hurt my knee uh I was doing a move that I do all the time it's a moonsault a backflip um in this particular instance I was landing not on my belly but I was landing on my feet when I landed um I felt my knee kind of pop and buckle then you know we we got out of the match and we moved forward um Monday I was in Birmingham, Alabama, where our specialists are at.

7:51We try to take a look at the knee through some imaging. It was a little too swollen, so we're going to take another look, hopefully in a week or two here in LA, to try to get something, some sort of firm diagnosis, and then we can go from there. I am not a doctor. I only know my body and what I feel, and what I feel is that this is going to be me out for an extended period of time. um you know we were talking off air earlier and it is a bummer but look it is what it is our business moves on this isn't the first time that i've been injured uh it won't be the last time and i you know i've i've always just got wrestlemania in the back of my mind i'm like can i make it back for wrestlemania for wrestlemania season for the whole thing and so that that's my brain always goes there um and i feel good about that um but beyond like a firm timeline i just won't know until we get a better answer um on the mri so that's where it's at if you guys have any questions you want to get anything out of the way that's where i'm at with it i'm open to whatever you guys want if you got any questions well i guess first off just on on a human level like mentally how are you because you're on a roll right now in your business and then for this to happen to you man like are you okay yeah i mean look there's no good time to get injured you know There's no like, oh, this is the best time of year for this to happen, or you're not being used very much, so you can take a break.

9:21But this is not my first rodeo. I had a very serious knee injury, same knee actually back in 2015. I was in a much different state of mind at that point in my career where I was still feeling like I needed to work, work, work to get to the top. Now I'm sort of at the top. Sort of? Sort of. I've had multiple injuries over the years. So I know what it feels like to take a step back. But also I have the confidence in our roster and in our team that they're going to be able to move things forward in a way that's entertaining. Like, I don't want to say they don't need me, but, like, we're good. We're in a good place right now.

9:59And when I come back, I'll be better than ever. How would you compare this to other injuries that you've had in your career? Well, I don't know. Again, because I don't know. Again, I'm not a doctor. I don't want to do their job. but it feels a lot like 2015 in the sense that I was you know kind of an in story I was on my way up to taking the top spot now when I when I blew my knee out in 2015 I was actually the WWE World Heavyweight Champion so that was like a heartbreaker for me and I had just sort of reached that mountaintop we were on the way to Wrestlemania and I felt like I was in for a really big spot that year um this is sort of like that but again i just mentally i'm in such a different place 10 years gone you know i'm just i'm more comfortable with it i'm kind of like trying to find the silver linings like um you know my daughter's four and a half like i'm gonna be able to spend a lot of time with her that i might not have been able to otherwise you know because the schedule is going to get crazy we have a bunch of international stuff coming up i would have been gone for all that so um i i'm i feel like mentally i'm in a good place i think physically i'll be fine to come back from it you know um when we get into the rehab and whatever it is we're gonna end up doing with this but i feel good man i feel good i don't want i don't want to jinx it i'm sure there's going to be some weeks where i'm miserable but like i feel good about it i'm trying to find the silver linings and uh everything's going to be fine everything's going to be fine we're good We're good, guys.

11:26We're good. We're good. We're good. So now that we got that out of the way, let's talk about sports. Let's do it. What's going on in the sports world, y 'all? Where are we at? It's the middle of summer, so things are kind of quiet. What do we got? What's happening? I think the biggest thing in sports, you know, obviously this is kind of the slow week right before NFL training camps kick off next week, and then we start really ramping into the NFL season. We had the Major League Baseball All-Star game last night, and for a few innings it was kind of a snoozer. It was 2-0. The NL put a couple runs up in the first inning on Tariq Scubal, arguably the best pitcher in the game.

11:59And then it was kind of just a snooze fest until the sixth when we got some runs, Pete Alonzo home run. Then the American league starts our comeback, Brent Rooker home run. And then all of a sudden in the ninth, we got a six, six ball game. And then we're going to extras. Wait, not extras. We're going to this cool home run Derby swing off. And this is where things kind of take a turn because you'd expect, look, If we're having a three-guy, three-swing home run derby off, who's going to be in this? Otani, Judge, Ronald Acuna, the hometown guy. Maybe you get Kyle Schwarber in there. Maybe you get some of the other big names.

12:38And really, Kyle Schwarber was the only one who was involved in this because Pete Alonzo was going to come up. He didn't get a chance to. And then that's kind of where the controversy is right now. Yes, this event was so cool. The ending was so awesome. This swing-off was such a great idea. Where were the big stars? And that's kind of what the hot-button topic is in Major League Baseball right now. Was there a reasoning? Why? Do we get any explanation for why we didn't have the big stars involved in this home run swing-off? Aaron Boone, Yankees manager. Dave Roberts, Dodgers manager. Apparently, you had to submit your three-man roster before the game just in case.

13:20And one of the reasonings was, look, we don't want to put Otani and Judge out there because they played the first couple innings and they've come out of the game. They've been sitting for a couple hours and now we're going to ask them to go up cold and try to swing out of their shoes and hit some home runs. So they put players in that were already in the game or mentally getting ready to play there in the later innings. So that was kind of the explanation on that. You know what? I can understand that. I get the frustration if you're a fan and you're thinking, I want the heavy hitters here. But as a guy who's had to do like multiple matches in a night, when you have to do a match, you're fired up, you go out there, you do your thing, and then you sit and chill.

14:03Physically, that is very difficult to ramp back up and to go out and do that again without risking injury. But mentally, it's even harder. Like, you know, for me, when my music hits, we're going to burn it down, the crowd goes nuts. I feel that adrenaline. it can pretty much get me through anything that's going on but if you have to do that multiple times in a night and go out and get physical while you're out there i feel like i this is just me and maybe it's you know maybe this was part of it but i feel like my performance suffers i feel like i'm not i'm not as on like everything's just a little slower to kind of get cooking so i sort of understand that i get the complaint i get the the frustration um when it comes to like oh you want to see the big guys take the big swings to finish out the game.

14:49But I do get that. I do understand it. Yeah, I get it too. And, you know, people were kind of taking umbrage with it. But look, Brent Rooker went out, hit an absolute bomb. And then you get Kyle Schwarber, TJ, and like, you know, you're no fan of Philadelphia sports. But this guy is just a legend. He gets up there, three swings, hits three absolute moonshots. And he becomes MVP of the All-Star Game, the American League, their last player, guy on the Rays. he gets up there and goes 0-4 and National League wins. Kind of a want-want-want finish. Yeah, poor guy. Pete Alonso was going to get a chance to maybe answer had Aranda hit a home run to tie it up at four, but it ended up being a really dramatic and exciting finish despite the lack of name star power.

15:32Is this the first year they've done this? It's the first year that they've actually, yeah, that it's come to fruition. It's been in the hopper there for a couple seasons. They've had it just in case. we haven't had to use it. This was the first year. Oh man, all right, tie game at the end. Let's bust this baby out. Nice. And so it ended up kind of living up to the hype. It was really exciting. But like I said, just not the name, not the Otani, the judges, the Kunyas that maybe you'd like to see. And the All-Star game is no longer for like control of the World Series, right? It's just straight up exhibition.

16:05Just fun. Just fun. Let's party. Let's get some names out there. Let's get some buzz, you know, for the second half of the baseball season. because it's been a really exciting Major League Baseball season so far. Oh, come on. No. I mean, come on, guys. I'm being serious. My team is good this year, so for me it's been excellent. Red Sox won 10 in a row going into the All-Star break. You've got some guys making serious threats at some home run totals. Cal Raleigh, it's been kind of his season so far. You say home run totals. Are you talking about the records? We're talking Bonds' number here? He has 38 home runs at the All-Star break.

16:35Is Bonds' number the number? Is that still the 70, what, the 73? Great question, Seth. If you ask us, yes. Bonds, Maguire, 70, 73, or is it still like his judge has 62, right? Judge at 62 a couple years ago, and they made a big point during that run that they were calling it the American League record, which was kind of wink-wink the actual record, the clean records, what so have you. And so, yeah, I mean, 73 is technically the mark, but do – I don't know. It depends how you feel about the whole steroid era and if you want to acknowledge that. We acknowledge it. Like one of your co-workers, we acknowledge the steroid era.

17:17We acknowledge the steroid era. We're big steroid era fans. Do you acknowledge it as its own era or do you acknowledge it as a part of baseball as a total? Look, man, it's a sum. McGuire and Sosa saved baseball. That was the greatest summer as a baseball fan that I can ever remember. And baseball was struggling at that point. A big struggle after the lockout, right? I would say that you got to kind of turn a blind eye to that stuff. I don't know. 73. If someone gets to 70, that would be absolutely insane. That would be insane.

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19:26I will say this. Yes. I am a man that knows when he's defeated. Yes. I was beaten this year. Yes. So my business manager is supposed to have the hat for us. He did not. Oh, we're throwing Jamal under the bus. Who are we throwing under the bus right now? He did not bring the hat. Who is thrown under the bus by the bus just right now? See, he didn't even show his face. I was willing to wear this hat. He had it made up. Well, he told me that the hat that he made up had the final score on. No, he had the hat on there. It was a hat. I don't know what that was. The hat is supposed to read the following.

20:04I am going to listen to this. Okay, hear this. Hail to the victors, valiant. Hail to the conquering heroes. Hail, hail to Michigan, the leaders and best. Wow. Wow. That is for you only. Wow. You know it. I honestly did not. What it took for me to do that. I honestly can't have thought of anything else that you would do that would make me think that you would not have to follow through on your end of the wager, which is where I should have gone to Michigan hat on the vaunted field of Notre Dame with touchdown Jesus behind you. But do I let him out of that end of the bet now? That was pretty epic, actually.

20:54And he nailed all the words. He grew up in the state of Michigan. He should know them. He should know them. I mean, that was like 40 years ago. I had to look them up to make sure I was saying it correctly for you. Also, I'm getting visions of like Jerome practicing before he came out here. That did sound rehearsed. Yeah, it sounded rehearsed. That was great. That took a lot out of me. Great job, Jerome. You know that. That was awesome. That was awesome. All right.

21:25What's up, guys? Today's WWE superstar, Seth Rollins, filling in here for Rich Eisen. I'm doing okay. Am I doing okay, guys? You're doing great. I'm doing all right. All right. Fantastic. I love the first segment. I had a great chat. But things are about to pick up right now because we have a guest. I would love to bring him in right now. He is a legend in Pittsburgh. Defensive tackle, Cam Hayward. Good. That's good. I can't believe that clip show. Rich must have arranged that to let you get under my skin. Yeah, he would never. He would never do such a thing. No, not our Rich. Cam, how are you, man?

22:08I'm good. We got camp next week. You know, just trying to enjoy my free time while I got it. Yeah, so that's what I wanted to get into. Like, what is an offseason like for Cam Hayward at this point? Like, is it look different now that you've been doing this for a while, different from when you were a rookie, first, second year now? Like, what does offseason look like for you? Well, having kids definitely has changed everything. You know, you're definitely dedicated more to them during the offseason. Going to basketball games, flag football, softball games, staying busy there. And then just the professional side of it, you know, you're starting to I feel like I've started to start training even earlier.

22:50you know now I take off a week or two as opposed when I was younger you know you might take a month off but uh um then the business side of just you know you know networking and you know going out and traveling you do a lot more so it's definitely jumped up and ramped up more than I ever thought it would when I was a younger guy yeah do you do you look forward to the off season then or is it is it like uh uh oh no I've got all this extra stuff I gotta do now I gotta get done like you You know, what's the dynamic like? I mean, when you're in season, it's like this is your job, right? This is you regimented.

23:27You know exactly what you're doing. That's kind of spelled out for you. But like offseason, now you said you've got all this going on. It's not like you're a young man. You're just taking a month and going to Cabo or something, you know, like what do you look forward to it? Are you like, ah, this is a rest or how is it mentally for you? It's funny. Like I look forward to the offseason, you know, right when it ends. But then when I get to this time, I'm looking forward to like end season because I like I need that routine in my life. I need like, you know, football is my safe haven. Football is like where I can just focus and just lock in and there's not as many distractions.

24:02So excited for the season. So to get this thing going. Yeah, man. And this season, especially, you got to be a little excited, right? You guys landed a quarterback. I think the last time we talked, you had you had nobody throwing the ball. You had no one under center. I think I might have made a remark or two about that, and now you got all AR. He did. He said it's his final season, it sounds like. Sounds like it. All things go the way we want. We might have to beg him to come back for more, but last time we talked, we talked about him being the bear killer. Now we get to bring him over here, and we're going to have to have him kill some other logos and mascots along the way.

24:49You've got some wildlife in your division. He could be a Raven killer. He could be a Bengal killer. Yeah, and I think you guys are coming to Chicago at some point this season, right? Yeah, are you going to come to the game? Oh, I hope so. I'd love to. I'd love to be there. I mean, maybe. I don't know. I'm bad luck, man. I'm bad luck for the Bears. Yeah, there it is. 8-12 November. is that is that the week before thanksgiving is that the sunday before thanksgiving yeah okay all right we'll see i don't when is our man i have to look at our schedule we have uh we had a big show around that time war games uh survivor series in san diego sometime around that but uh if if if i am free i would love to be there for that that would be tremendous i'd love to see it i hear you're a big bears fan but then talking to the street profits and there was talk that there was another big Bears fan.

25:43So it's a toss-up right now. You want to just clear the air and tell me who the bigger Bear fan is? Oh, it's no question. It's me. No question. It's me. It's not even close. Montez, you're mimicking. So the Street Profits are a tag team in WWE. There's Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford. Montez Ford, also a Chicago Bears fan. But, I mean, he's like... Fairweather's a bad way to describe it, but he's not on the level that I'm on. Like, I languish over football pretty much all season, but during the season especially. You know, he moves on quickly. He's out quickly. Dawkins, though, is a Bengals guy.

26:22Yeah, he is. The other street profit, big Bengals guy, like huge Bengals guy. So he is praying for your downfall. Oh, he is. He wants you. Yeah, man, the Bengals are tricky. How did you guys do against Cincy last year? We went one-on-one. One-on-one? yeah we won up in cincinnati and then he beat us back in pittsburgh god these just these elite quarterbacks what is that like is it a different mental game for you going in against someone like a a lamar or a joe burrow like what what is your mindset when you have someone that we would consider in in our world an elite quarterback is it different than when you're going again against like a rookie or someone that's a backup or someone that just doesn't have the clout that these guys have like do you prepare differently do you get up for the game a little bit more like what's that feel like I don't know if it's getting up for the game but you definitely have more in your pocket when you're playing those guys um because they've seen everything you know you play Joe and um you play Lamar um you got to have different looks that you know you might have shown early in the season you got to be able to bring blitzes off of edges in the middle um you know Because, you know, the thing with Joe is he's got two wide receivers that, you know, are, I think, in the top 10 with Tee Higgins and Jamar Chase.

27:41And then with Lamar, he's making his wide receivers great. And then he's got the feet to just, you know, dance around the pocket. So, you know, it's a different, you know, task week in and week out. But, you know, there's a lot of respect there because those guys are up for the MVV every year. So you got to have your best performances. And do you think the inverse when they see someone like Cam Hayward on the opposite side, you know, under center there, they're looking across the line? Do you think there's do you feel a confidence like, oh, they know it's me? You know what I mean? They know I'm coming for them.

28:17Yeah, there's no doubt of that. Like, you know, I try to make sure my presence is felt every time we play them, you know, win or lose. I'm going to make sure that the quarterback knows I'm coming for him and he's not comfortable. Having a run and make like TJ and Alex Highsmith on the outside, they make my job a little bit easier. But we love to hunt quarterbacks for a living. And so going up against those guys and Cleveland every year, it creates for good rivalries and just hard-hitting games. Who's your favorite? Who's your favorite guy to get a hold of? Right now or back when they were still playing?

28:55Oh, pick one. All-time. I love an all-time. Who's your favorite guy to just bring to the ground? Stand over? When you get Brady, that's just, you know, because Brady talks a lot, and, like, you respect it, and he's the top of the game. And, like, if you get Brady on the ground, you know it's defeating to the other team because, man, Brady is just – he doesn't go down a lot. You know, he's got a quick release. And, you know, there are usually big games where you've got to get them down. Yeah, so we talked about Rodgers' big offseason move for you guys. You made another move on your side of the ball recently.

29:31Big trade with Miami, I believe it was. You've acquired Jalen Ramsey, who's a perennial all-pro, pro-bowler. How do you feel like that changes the defensive dynamic? What does it do for you guys now moving into the season? You know, first, the way it came out, I thought we were, you know, bringing Jalen in for just a pick. And I was like, oh, hell yeah, I love this. You know, and then I found out it's a trade for with Mink. And I'm like, damn, you're taking away, you know, a guy that has really meant a lot to our group. So I was a little bit bummed about it. But, you know, you look at what Jalen brings to the table.