10 Wrestlers Who Lost Touch With Humanity
On this day, we grow weary, starring Mad Edge, Bad Cody Rhodes and Sad Seth Rollins.
Wrestlers are all amazing. Even the ones you hate.
Look at the floor beneath you as you read this. Wrestlers fall on that - or an approximation of that - countless times a week. To get to the standard where they can do it countless times on television, they have to do it even more in training.
Next, look up at anything around seven to ten feet in the air. Wrestlers jump off that - or an approximation of that - countless times a week. To get to the standard where they can do it countless times on television, they have to do it even more in training.
Finally, look at anybody near you. Wrestlers require that person - or a person just like them - to protect their safety at all costs, as they protect theirs. To get to the standard where they can do it countless times on television, they have to do it even more in training.
And on and on it goes. An abnormal job, in abnormal circumstances, doing abnormal things. But wrestlers do it, they're amazing for it, and it's subsequently rather understandable why some end up a little detached from reality.
They have to be to embrace such dangerous fiction...
10. Seth Rollins
The pivots are rarely to everybody's tastes and it's often a little unclear what the gimmicks really even are, but Seth Rollins has shown a remarkable willingness to try any old weird sh*t asked of him since turning heel in late-2019.
Flicking the sad guy switch in April 2020 was one of the funniest, though.
In some classic eFed-brought-to-life craic literally weeks removed from real life being brought to a halt by the pandemic, Rollins had a meltdown on the Raw after he lost to Drew McIntyre at Money In The Bank. It triggered an insanity that ended up taking Rey Mysterio's eye out, but served as some darkly amusing patter for the locked-in world following an entirely different segment earlier in the show.
In one of the company's nicest ever segments, Becky Lynch revealed to Asuka that she was pregnant and handed over her Raw Women's Title. It was a sprinkling of joy when everybody needed something, but the side-by-sides of the vastly different new parent reactions were a total riot.