10 Ways WWE Has Failed Seth Rollins As WWE Champion

3. Over-Exposure

Given the length of Rollins' title reign, it was perhaps inevitable that it would get to a point where audiences might have seen a little too much of Rollins. The man he replaced as champion, Brock Lesnar, made only a handful of appearances with the gold. To go from that to someone who appears in a minimum of two or three segments on television every week €” and twice that if SmackDown is included €” has been a difficult and rather sudden transition. WWE has given us far too much of Rollins. There was a period earlier this year where every single WWE show seemed to open with 20 minutes of Rollins on the microphone. He is a talented talker and has improved leaps and bounds since securing the championship, but there's only so much that an audience can take. The same is true of his matches. As talented a competitor as Rollins has proven himself to be, he has been trapped in an endless loop of identical matches on numerous occasions. Around the SummerSlam period, Rollins faced John Cena three or four times in singles matches in the space of a couple of months. It's sad to say that audiences are getting tired of Seth Rollins, but it seems that that is the case. His run as champion has simply become played-out and the boos are not nearly as strong as they once were. Rollins was the most over heel in the company at the start of the year, but he has now become something of an afterthought for the fans, albeit an afterthought who gets several segments of TV time every week.
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