8 Nuances That Make Seth Rollins So Great
2. Smash Your Knee To Pieces (Kind Of)
There’s a school of thought that says that it takes a nasty setback to make a wrestler truly great.
Getting injured and being sidelined for months means losing your spot. It means having to fight your way back to health, then back to ring shape again. It means returning to the grind and clawing your spot back. It means proving that you still deserve to have that spot - not just to your boss and your co-workers, but to yourself.
Triple H did it after not one, but two near-crippling quad injuries. CM Punk did it early in his career, when he suffered a fractured skull that had him semi-conscious and throwing up for a month in a ratty basement room before he could even begin to recover.
For Eddie Guerrero, it was addiction: fired because of his issues, he went into recovery, working on the independent circuit to build back the fire and his reputation again before being welcomed back to the WWE and finally realising his potential as a genuine megastar.
Seth Rollins’ 2015 knee injury was bad - you can't f*ck up your knee much more than that. Coming back to his version of fitness was a genuine victory all on its own.
But doing that and then coming back to that main event spot without missing a beat - returning to the intense, punishing schedule WWE demands and the intense, punishing style he demands of himself - that’s the mark of a true legend.