10 Secrets Nobody Has Told You About WWE Yet
3. The Seth Rollins Entrance Phenomenon
As of writing, Seth Rollins has pivoted for the first time in quite a while from the clownish 'Visionary' persona into a well-dressed family man with a very very bad back.
This appears to be part of an earnest attempt to smoothen the edges of the current Rollins character as he slots into the traditional role of (let's be generous here) WWE World Heavyweight Champion. The man that won that belt though? He was something very different, and will almost certainly lean on that when the company no longer needs to lean on him.
Seth Rollins has always been a good-to-great pro wrestler, but finds himself currently as one of many to fit that description. In fact, across Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, there's maybe more than any time in industry history. He's got ring general qualities when required to elevate somebody way beneath him, but rarely crafts epics with those at or slightly above his level. There's a lethargic quality evidenced in the body of contests opposite the likes of Finn Bálor and Shinsuke Nakamura, but there's none of that to be found as he enters the ring. Rollins - and there's zero shame in this, is an entrance before he's a wrestler.
Singing along to his theme is clearly one of the biggest draws of buying a ticket if noise is a barometer, and it absolutely should be. And with box office sales as high as they've been in forever, it's this aspect of his act specifically that now makes him an objective draw.