10 WWE Stars Who Should Be WAY More Over Than They Actually Are
7. Seth Rollins
The stars aligned to get Seth Rollins all the way over at and in the long term aftermath of WrestleMania 33. It didn't happen.
Rollins legitimately re-injured his knee many weeks prior to 'Mania. A well-worked injury angle still has the power to move crowds. This was something different; it felt for all the world like a serendipitous turn of events planned by the wrestling gods to herald Rollins' ascension. Rollins and Triple H's Unsanctioned match, however, played out to church silence. The body of the match was constructed with surgical precision. The only thing missing was the heart.
At Extreme Rules, the only comeback for which fans really left their feet saw Rollins receive an assist from the trusty Spanish announce table. Finn Bálor, ultimately, was more over than him. Unlike at 'Mania, there was no hopeful suggestion that Rollins was the victim of a bloated show and a fatigued crowd; the stark fact of the matter is that Seth Rollins is nowhere near as relevant - nor as good - as he was as a cackling, entitled heel.
Is Rollins just not particularly likeable? Was his face turn, enforced by Bálor's own real life injury in the summer of 2016, too forced and sudden to resonate? Are his scripted lines - "You know what they say - Payback is a b*tch!" - too generic to generate a reaction? Does he not possess the requisite fire in his comebacks?
Whatever the muddied cause behind the problem, the problem itself is clear.