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  • Seth RollinsBreaking Under PressureIn WWE?

  • Seth Rollins hasn't had the best time as of late. Despite beating Brock Lesnar at both

  • WrestleMania 35 and Summerslam - oooh Beast Slayer. Twice - his Universal Championship

  • runs at the top of WWE this year have been mired by an awkward storyline pairing him

  • up with his real life fiance Becky Lynch, and a disastrous feud with Bray Wyatt's

  • Fiend that still WON'T GO AWAY. And that's just the stuff on WWE programming.

  • In the last few months Seth has flipped between tweeting how much money is in his bank account

  • MONEY! to deleting his Twitter entirely. It's not been the most effective way to book a

  • babyface, and, as a result, has even led to some fans going too far: holding up signs

  • saying 'Seth Rollins Is Not Cool'. Good gawd, almighty, they've killed him

  • And Seth's new PR-slayer gimmick took another step this week, when he answered a Q&A question

  • about one day facing Kenny Omega, by taking a shot at AEW.

  • When Kenny's done playing in the minor leagues over there, Kenny can come and work

  • at the absolute top professional wrestling company in the world in front of the most

  • people and make the most money and have the best matches, which is with me at WrestleMania.”

  • Them's be fighting words, sure, but it's also the kind of bantery language you'd

  • expect in a wrestling war. Especially with Being the Elite jokingly calling NXT the 'minor

  • leagues' in a recent episode. Former WWE turned AEW commentator Jim Ross, however,

  • has taken great offence to Seth's comments, saying he's “pissed offon the latest

  • episode of his Grilling JR podcast, and then shooting on Rollins himself:

  • He's in a great spot, he's blessed, maybe someday he'll be as over as his girlfriend,

  • I don't know. Nonetheless, I've always liked his work. He's a solid guy, he's a solid guy,

  • but saying things like that make him look bad and for that, I feel badly for him. I

  • just do.” JR then interestingly went onto how Seth is

  • being perceived backstage due to his behaviour these last few months:

  • Since this came out, I talked to two Hall of Fame guys off the record that were embarrassed

  • about those remarks as well. It doesn't do the business any good and one of these cats

  • even said to me that maybe Rollins is breaking under the pressure because he's getting a

  • lot of criticism." Seth's position as WWE's top champion

  • comes with considerable pressure to defend the brand. He's the face of the company.

  • But he appears to be taking criticism of it personally - like when he stared down the

  • 'Not Cool' sign guy. Even his Shield brother Roman Reigns has admitted Seth's conduct

  • hasn't had the babyface connection it should, telling Sports Illustrated:

  • "Seth loves the WWE. That's why some people misread some of the things he says or the

  • ways he delivers it, but he does mean well. He's a workhorse. Yeah, he's a little live

  • at the mouth sometimes, but he's got a heart of gold, trust me.”

  • I feel you, Big Dawg. We here at WrestleTalk are also trying to go babyface again. The

  • most important thing, Seth, is that you don't crack under pressure. Let's see how he's

  • doing on Instagram with his most recent post: A picture of him dressed for pool time fun

  • with the caption 'who said #sethrollinsisnotcool'. Yep, everything looks totally fine there!

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