Seth Rollins is having an excellent time since the very beginning of 2023. WWE recently introduced a new World title for Monday Night RAW and Seth Rollins became the inaugural World Heavyweight Champion at Night of Champions. Rollins had been an excellent and dominant champion from the very first day.
The best thing about Rollins being a World Champion is the way he is defending his title regularly unlike Roman Reigns. He has already defended the title more than Roman Reigns defended his title in the whole year so far. Seth Rollins gave candid expression on his World title journey. Speaking on “Out of Character with Ryan Satin” recently he said;
Inside Seth Rollins’ Mind: Candid Reflections on His WWE World Heavyweight Championship Journey
“It’s hard to take a title [that’s] basically built from nothing and make it feel like a big deal,” Rollins explained. “And so I think that’s the goal right now, to just elevate this thing every single time the people see it, whether it’s a live event, on ‘The Today Show,’ or ESPN, pay-per-views, whatever. Try to make it feel as big as we possibly can so that it raises all the ships around it.”
“I think because I’m in a position on the show where I’m featured fairly prominently, it really helps now that we have a title that’s there every Monday where people feel like they’ve got something to aspire to,” Rollins continued. “As opposed to before, when there was just one champion on a part-time schedule, it was really difficult for performers to come up with where they wanted to go next. There was no end game for them, and that can create a little bit of mundaneness, I guess.”
Seth Rollins Won World Heavyweight Championship At Night Of Champions
“I’m under no illusions that this title is the same as Roman’s title,” he said. “That title has been around and has so much equity put into it over the last few years. It means a lot. You saw how evident it was, even at Money in the Bank when he got pinned for the first time in over two and a half years.
“You can’t just come in and pretend that this title is that important. No one’s gonna buy that crap. The way that I always saw champions that I looked up to and that I aspired to be were champions who took the title to every territory or every town and defended it, and over time, people believed that it was a big deal.”
In spite of being a defending champion, Seth Rollins’ WWE World Heavyweight Championship is still not being treated on the same level of the Universal title. The biggest reason behind this discrimination is the weak work from the RAW creative team who are completely failing to book the title as the real deal. We hope the status of the World Heavyweight Championship improves soon.
Credit “Out of Character with Ryan Satin”
H/T to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.