Seth Rollins Has His Nose Lodged All the Way Up His Bosses' Asses

Rollins keeps attacking, but is it really him talking?
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For four years after WrestleMania XXX, Roman Reigns was painted as a company man, the guy Vince McMahon wanted to get over at all costs, and who was to be the heir apparent to John Cena as "the guy WWE rams down your throat." Whether he was that or not is up to your own analysis, as it was with Cena and Hulk Hogan and anyone else anyone with the surname McMahon has tried pushing as the company's ace. For every laurel wreath laid at Reigns' feet, he took it in stride. He may have been inoffensive, corny even. Never once though did he seem aggressively brown-nosed. Now, this isn't to say he wasn't or is not a company man. It's just he's not as in your face about it when he's doing publicity. Seth Rollins? Yeah, as documented before, he is more than willing to lodge himself into the rectum of his bosses in order to curry favor.

In order to be the company man that McMahon and Paul Levesque want him to be, Rollins' first task has been to disparage the good name of one Jon Moxley. As linked above, he first went on the offensive on a podcast where he pretended to know the word "presumptuous" and intimated that he wasn't as good a wrestler because he couldn't handle "the grind" like Rollins could. As silly as that sounds, it was what Rollins was meant to say. Unless he's incredibly phony, and hey, he might be, going in on a supposed "brother" as soon as he left the company smells a little too much like McMahon and Levesque using Rollins as a proxy. So it shouldn't be a surprise when he continued his onslaught, this time on a conference call in preparation of SummerSlam:

Seth Rollins on SummerSlam conference call:

Moxley to AEW:
"I was surprised by it. I knew Ambrose needed time away from WWE."

"Now he's competition and trying to take dinner off my table & good on him."

AEW:
"We are going to knock them dead, just like we do everyone else."

— John Pollock (@iamjohnpollock) July 22, 2019

He's right that Moxley is competition, but "taking food off [Rollins'] table?" I only have one thing to say to that.

Get all the way the fuck outta here.

When wrestling had major competition, the folks who lived through those eras liked to say they made money hand-over-fist. If anything, Moxley giving legitimacy to All Elite Wrestling is, in theory, putting enough money in Rollins' checking account for him to buy as much protein bars and boneless, skinless chicken breast as his heart desires. If anyone is taking food off Rollins' plate, it's the people feeding him his bullshit lines about his friend. I'm not sure about how much revenue "The Boys" get out of the ungodly amounts of money WWE pulls in from its revenue streams, but if it's anything more than 50.1 percent, I'll drop dead. Hell, if they got more than ten percent, I'd be shocked. Part of being a wrestling promoter is dicking your talent out of the money that you can't pull in without them. Where else do you think McMahon is getting his money to fund an entire goddamn football league?

The fucked up thing is that it's understandable that WWE volleys shots back at AEW, because again, however smaller a share of the market the latter has, it's still corporately-owned, billionaire-backed competition. There are no good guys in this thing, even if one party is less bad than the other. That being said, look at the people taking shots for AEW: Cody [Rhodes], Kenny Omega, the Young Bucks. Yeah, they're "The Boys," but they're also the executive vice presidents. McMahon and Levesque have their stooge boy relaying messages, not even the EVPs, but to the guy who confessed that WWE was making him depressed. It feels like such a chickenshit move, and it's all on Rollins to say no, that he's not gonna take potshots at a guy with whom he was joined at the hip.

Notice that even now, Reigns refuses to take shots at Moxley. Do you think Levesque and McMahon conveniently didn't ask him to do the junkets and fling shit at Moxley? Again, it's not to say Reigns is defiant or doesn't want to help WWE as much as he can no matter how morally grotesque the company is. He just has limits and boundaries. You don't have to respect it. I really don't. But again, as there are degrees of bad guy in WWE vs. AEW, there are degrees of bootlicker within WWE, and you can totally point it out. Rollins' behavior is, in a word, embarrassing. But hey, WWE has been nothing short of embarrassing in recent memory, right? Hell, one could say the company has fumbled its way into gobs and gobs of money by sheer accident. Their actions, especially lately, have reeked of paranoia and desperation. In a word, you just hate to see it.