100 Greatest WWE WrestleMania Moments
62. Seth Rollins Takes The Ultimate RKO (WrestleMania 31)
29 March 2015 was a thoroughly fun evening for Seth Rollins. He stole headlines with his antics during the main event, but here's the thing: Seth had already created some buzz with a single bump earlier in the card. Rollins partied amidst fireworks in the night air, sure, but he had fans high-fiving in the baking California sunshine with one solitary spot. You know exactly what it is.
One of the greatest RKOs Randy Orton ever delivered, that's what.
Though Randy won the match, all anyone could talk about afterwards was Seth's sensational bump. He went up for a stomp on the 'Viper', then twisted his body just in time to eat canvas and have eyes popping out of skulls in Levi's Stadium. It wasn't long before .GIFs of this hit social media. Everybody and their dog started rushing to take a look at what Orton had done to Rollins on the biggest stage WWE provides.
Footage of the bump had surfaced on Twitter by the time Triple H and Sting hit the ring for their bout, and a lot of folks applauded Seth for grabbing his very own WrestleMania 31 moment. Little did they know what was coming at them once the sun faded and Levi's was cloaked in darkness. Rollins wasn't quite finished for the night, shall we say.
What a bloody bump though. It remains the RKO at 'Mania for a reason. Someone's gonna have to come up with a way to top this someday. Almost a decade on, nobody has come close to matching a screaming Seth shouting 'RK-nooooooo!' in mid air.