Finally, the chickens**t heel showed he could stand on his own. Seth Rollins has been booked to look more and more ineffective as a world champion lately. Losing to his own security team certainly did not help, neither did losing the backing of (almost) the entire Authority, save for Triple H offering a pep talk before his match with Dean Ambrose. Rather than rely on the help of his security and/or Kane, Rollins withstood an early onslaught from Ambrose to overcome and nearly cripple Ambrose by attacking his knee throughout the match. Seth showed a brutality not seen from him for some time, and it really worked. Even the biggest coward outside of the Honky Tonk Man needs to show that hes a capable champ who can beat someone within an inch of their life to get over as a solid performer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xrG0ypFv-w Hiding behind J&J Security and Kane wasnt helping Rollins, and now hes hopefully silenced his critics, and hopefully he can be more like the bad guy champion who talks trash, hides when need be, but can back up his mouth in the ring. After watching him brutalized Ambroses knee with a steel chair and his two barricade powerbombs before powerbombing him through a ladder, its easier to buy Seth as champion. Keep it up Rollins, that was a nice punctuation to the evening.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
