Professional wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer Road Dogg Jesse James who is the former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently talked about WWE Raw star Seth Rollins and discussed his early days struggle in WWE.
Seth Rollins had never been a utility talent of WWE. In fact, he started his professional wrestling career in the Independent circuit in 2005. In 2007 he joined Ring of Honor and had been one of the most successful stars of the promotion. He even won the Ring of Honor World Championship one time.
Road Dogg Explains Why Seth Rollins Struggled In His Early days
In 2010 he joined WWE and started working on the development territories of the promotion such as the Florida Championship Wrestling and later in the NXT. He has also been the inaugural NXT champion. He was one of the most successful stars in the NXT and fans really loved him during this time.
In late 2012 he made his main roster debut along with Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose as a stable and all of these three wrestlers went on to become future World champions. It is really difficult to understand when did Rollins actually struggled during his early period of WWE career.
Road Dogg Jesse James who is the former six times WWE Tag Team Champion recently spoke on a live Q&A session on AdFreeShows where he talked about WWE Raw star Seth Rollins and discussed his early days struggle in WWE. He said;
“He used to do this thing in the corner where he would jump up and down, and jump up and down, and run like he was in a mosh pit, and then just run and hit the guy with the forearm. And I thought, ‘Man, that’s so anti-climatic.’
“It seemed like the build-up to it was bigger than the finish of it. So I went to him and told him that, and he said, ‘No, that’s what I do. I’m not changing it. That’s what I do.’ And I went to [Triple H] and I said, ‘Well, that kid, I’ll never talk to him again.’”
“His bad habit was not saying, ‘Okay, thank you sir,’ or whatever and being respectful and then not doing what I said like every other young wrestler. At least pretend to respect what I’m telling you, you know what I mean? And what I was telling him was right. He did change it, and he did come up with something that was more [of] a bigger pop than the set-up to it.”
“They had a ‘come to Jesus’ speech with him down there. And he changed his whole philosophy and perspective on how he was looking at stuff, and look at him now, man. On top of the world, doing some of his best work too, I might add.”
“I think they want to build their own athletes and I don’t know how many more out there there are. But I still think they’ll hire people from the independent scene. I think it will just be younger talent that hadn’t been out there for 10 years.”
H/T and transcribed by Wrestling Inc.