Three words, “it’s about time” comes to mind. Four years after Seth Rollins rolled his way into the main event of WrestleMania 31, cashing in his Money in the Bank contract and pinning Roman Reigns during the main event match against Brock Lesnar. Since then, Rollins has been a consistent main eventer, and consistently delivering the best matches WWE had to offer. The cliché of putting Rollins up against a broomstick or mannequin were common as it was rare to find Rollins in a situation which was lacking in-ring excitement. Regardless, face or heel, Seth Rollins was considered “must-see” on RAW, SmackDown, and any pay-per-view.
Brock Lesnar on the other hand, seemed to have very quickly worn out his novelty. He shows up, gets the big match, wins the Universal Championship, and bails. While his t-shirts would say: Eat. Sleep. Suplex. Repeat… This would turn to, Eat. Sleep. Win a Title… Leave. The first few appearances had shocker moments such as multiple german suplexes, overhead-belly-to-back suplexes, and a few others before dropping F5s on everyone. But as per the course, routines become boring, stale, and thanks to dirtsheet knowledge becoming commonplace, WWE embracing and using reality in the storyline, this all mixes together a giant bowl of no-cares-about-Brock-anymore. No one even cares about the Universal Championship anymore. People cared when Roman Reigns had it for a month more than Brock. So many times Braun Strowman was in-line for it, and fans cared, until Brock made a squash of it and fans, instead of rioting, just shrugged it off as par of the WWE course.
Seth Rollins must defeat Brock Lesnar. The only reason not to, is to make Brock a bigger heel… But at this point, I don’t think anyone would care. Mr. “Burn it Down” has figuratively been on fire for a solid year. Solid year. He’s put on the best matches with Dolph Ziggler, Dean Ambrose, Daniel Bryan, Drew McIntyre, Elias, and the list goes on.
WrestleMania (and the RAW after) is the time of year where WWE intends to set the tone for the next six months until SummerSlam. The chase against Brock has been going on far too long and if WWE wants people to care again, Brock needs to LOSE. It’s time for Seth Rollins to become a megastar and be the one to say “I slayed the beast.” Seth Rollins has climbed the mountain before, but now it’s time for the biggest mountain climb yet and Rollins is the one who deserves to once again, be Mr. WrestleMania.
WWE could sell even more of Rollins’ “Beastslayer” shirts.
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