10 Wrestlers Who Gambled On A New Character
9. Seth "Freakin'" Rollins: The Drip God
The Messiah character was dreadful. Subjectively.
The interminable sermon promos, the drab look, the word soup that scanned as self-important nonsense with no real meaning behind it: the meta locker room leader martyr gimmick stopped making sense when Seth Rollins learned how to use Twitter better after the wild events of 2019, and after undertaking paternity leave in late 2020, he himself recognised that.
Speaking to Steve Austin on the Broken Skull Sessions, Rollins surveyed the roster and wondered where the "pizzazz" had gone.
He then arrived at the "Drip God" character, which he further explained to Z100's Josh Martinez as "the Joker if he were a narcissist going through a midlife crisis".
That would explain the relentless laughter and garish suits.
At worst, it's obnoxious cheap heat that doesn't make any sense. What caused him to become the Joker? Did he realise that he lives in a society (and it f*cking sucks)? What traumatic event triggered this descent into madness? Being made to work the Eye For An Eye match at Extreme Rules?
At best, there's a clownish appeal to his work; his chemistry with Kevin Owens is deeply silly but not not entertaining.
Still: better than the dreary monotonous self-important schtick of 2020.