4 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Raw (6 Jul - Results & Review)

2. Rollins Douses Cold Water On The Crowd

As hot as Raw opened with the backstage fracas involving Sami Zayn, Cody Rhodes, and Gunther, Seth Rollins immediately cooled things off considerably with a snoozer of a promo that retconned much of his history with Roman Reigns and The Shield.

Rollins set out to paint Roman as the “chosen one” in WWE, talking about how he was tapped as the next big star from the very beginning and was going to be pushed to the heavens, regardless of whether he could cut a promo or if he couldn’t “wrestle his way out of a paper bag.”

Seth tried to suggest that seeing Roman tapped for things he dreamt of as a child “broke something” inside him. He said he broke up The Shield and cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase at WrestleMania 31 to catch up to Reigns, effectively trying to repaint those moments as him lashing out.

All of it was painful – and painfully dull. Fans fell deathly silent for much of this, clearly not invested in a word he was saying. They might be into the Rollins/Reigns match, but this wasn’t doing a damn thing to build it.