Seth Rollins has portrayed a vast array of characters in WWE.
Following his run as the top babyface in the company, where he defeated Brock Lesnar twice to win the Universal Championship, fans began to slowly turn on him. He then underwent a dramatic transformation to become the ‘Monday Night Messiah,’ before morphing into the singing, dancing and prancing ‘Visionary’ that we have gradually come to love.
In a recent appearance on the “SHAK Wrestling” podcast ahead of SummerSlam 2023, the World Heavyweight Champion spoke with Shakiel Mahjouri to discuss a variety of topics, including stepping out of his comfort zone and embracing the character evolution he has undergone in recent years. He said,
“I think I learned a lot about how to take chances and have a little bit more confidence in myself. I think it’s one of those things where I lived in my comfort zone for such a long time that I thought I knew better. I thought I knew what I was. I was comfortable in my identity and it was hard to look in the mirror and go, okay, this is working, but what can we do to go to the next level and, you know, kind of revamping your whole presentation is a difficult choice to make and so you think it won’t work, it’ll fail, people won’t like it, you won’t be able to do it, all of these types of things, and sometimes you just got to dive in and see what happens and have confidence in your ability to make anything work. If you are experienced and talented and committed and passionate, no matter what is given to you, or no matter what you choose to do, you can find a way to make the absolute best of it. Now it helps that all of this kind of comes from my brain, and these are mostly my ideas with the help of some folks whose opinions I care about, but at the end of the day, all of the things that come out of Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins are coming from me, and so that helps me. It was definitely a lesson in taking chances and understanding that sometimes in showbiz, that’s what you got to do if you want to continue to evolve and stay relevant in a culture that’s constantly changing and always looking for new, new, new.”
Seth “Freakin'” Rollins will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against fabled rival Finn Balor on Saturday, August 5, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
