10 Wrestlers That Can't Exist In Real Life

6. Seth Rollins

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Alright, Seth Rollins clearly does really well in real life, but he'd complete the game entirely if he stopped playing the daftest one in his pocket.

'The Monday Night Messiah' worked incredibly hard to become a made man in a system that once upon a time would have spat him straight back out. Arguably the most dynamic member of The Shield from an in-ring point of view, he ascended quickly in an era where few managed to, and survived the choppy waters of the midcard before a 2019 push that transformed his life for the best and worst of reasons.

A real life relationship with Becky Lynch shouldn't have ever made it to air, but clearly fulfilled him in a way that could have made flying the WWE flag not quite as necessary as it seemed to be. Picking the weekend of the ill-fated Stomping Grounds pay-per-view was a poor call, as was "doubling down", as was throwing shade at one of his best friends making a different career choice, as was getting into a money fight with another wrestler, as was earnestly trying to defend the talent whilst missing the point of Twitter's complaints as was as was as was.

It appears that Rollins is fundamentally good, and it's nice when good things happen to good people. But he's so entrenched within a system that doesn't remotely reward it, that it'll never truly feel that way until he's removed himself entirely.

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