Videos:
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor – Clip (WWE YouTube)
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor – Full Match (Dailymotion – Standard/HD)
Seth Rollins vs. Finn Balor – Full Match (WWE Network – 1080p Full HD)

Finn Balor def. Seth Rollins – For the WWE Universal Championship
Finn Bálor first stepped in a WWE ring as a Raw Superstar four weeks ago. Tonight at SummerSlam, he left the squared circle as the first WWE Universal Champion, defeating Seth Rollins with the Coup de Grace to capture the new title and building to a legacy of success that’s spanned Europe, Japan and NXT. Moments before history was made, Raw Commissioner Stephanie McMahon and General Manager Mick Foley unveiled the new WWE Universal Championship. And then the mind-games began as The Demon King stalked to the ring through a thick cloud of red smoke with a neon green tongue painted on his chest and a giant eye on his back.
Rollins could not get away from his opponent early on. Bálor blindsided him when the opening bell rang. When Rollins rolled to the outside to catch his breath, Bálor caught him with a senton over the top rope. He then began to target Rollins’ surgically repaired left knee. Bálor had Rollins reeling, until “The Man” powerbombed his opponent into the ringside barricade, flipping momentum entirely.
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Seth was very busy promoting SummerSlam these past few days! He spent a day at ESPN HQ doing various videos for different segments and ESPN’s social media platforms. I’ve gathered all the videos right here for your viewing pleasure and just in case anyone missed one as it was a very busy day! And if anyone likes to save videos we should have links to downloadable versions of these soon; as well the screen-captures for these interviews are coming and there will be another post with those links for everyone.

Video Links:

His & Hers

First Take

ESPN Q&A’s

Seth Rollins Imagines his Alter-ego

Seth on ESPN SportsCenter Clip #1

Videos:
Seth Rollins Encounters Neville Backstage (WWE YouTube)
Seth Rollins Reacts to The Demon’s Attack (WWE YouTube)
Seth Rollins Meets the Demon King (WWE YouTube)

Seth Searches for the Demon King & Meets Him Face to Face In the Ring
If there’s one thing to be said about Seth Rollins, it’s that he can certainly talk the talk. And “The Man” certainly made a big show out of scouring the backstage area for Finn Bálor in an attempt to coax “The Demon King” persona into a fight before they battle for the WWE Universal Championship on Sunday. And even though he only took his quest to the ring under pressure from Mick Foley, The Architect certainly didn’t hold back in his second consecutive round of trash talk.

That is, until the Irishman revealed his infernal alter ego in full. And though Rollins didn’t tuck tail and run the second Bálor appeared in the ring, he certainly didn’t get the better of the transformed Superstar. The Demon King unloaded a series of kicks on his foe, and while Rollins dodged the Coup de Grâce, he was sent reeling from an over-the-top-rope dive all the same.

Videos:
Seth Rollins Claims Balor is Disrespectful (WWE YouTube)

Seth’s Promo on Finn Balor
Seth doesn’t have a match live on Raw TV tonight but instead comes out for a short promo segment.
He is not impressed by Finn Balor’s demon “charade” and claims that he unlike Balor does not need to hide behind smoke and mirrors OR pomp and circumstance to make him look like he’s anyone else. Seth also says he is confident and knows his place in the company, which is right at the top.
He was also not impressed with Finn Balor getting right in his face last week on Raw and showing disrespect to Seth by talking to him like any ordinary person.
Seth says that when he wins the Universal Championship that in 200 years everyone will be talking about Seth Rollins riding in on his white horse, telling stories about how he slayed the beast, broke the face of the man who runs the place and how he conquered the Roman Empire. Getting passionate now Seth says he is the myth, the legend and the man and he will add another accolade to his list of accomplishments at SummerSlam.

Videos:
Seth Rollins Confronts Finn Balor (WWE YouTube)
Seth Rollins vs. Sami Zayn (WWE YouTube)

Seth “Interviews” Finn Balor
Finn Bálor has arrived, and all he has to do is get past Seth Rollins to become the first WWE Universal Champion. Rollins, of course, isn’t buying the hype, and he laid out a case for his own superiority under the caveats that he was the first of the two to achieve all of Bálor’s signature accomplishments. Bálor countered that he’s beaten no shortage of competitors who referred to themselves as “The Man,” and he was the only of the two of them to earn the Universal Title Match at SummerSlam, as Rollins was handed his own spot. That riled Rollins, but his attempts to sucker-punch the Irishman landed him a boot to the gut and a Pele Kick to the dome.

Seth def. Sami Zayn
Know this about Seth Freaking Rollins: He will not be humiliated twice in one night. After landing on the wrong end of a tussle with Finn Bálor, The Architect saved face in a one-on-one bout against Sami Zayn later in the night, though The Underdog from the Underground proved a tougher opponent than Rollins might have liked.

Riding off the confidence of having beaten Kevin Owens at WWE Battleground, Zayn rallied from nearly every big move Rollins threw his way. He seemingly had the bout won after he gritted his way to a late-game Blue Thunder Bomb, tightrope DDT and plancha to the outside. But The Architect’s last-second dodge of a Helluva Kick offered all the opening he needed, as Zayn bounced off the turnbuckle straight into the waiting embrace of a Pedigree. It marked a big win for Rollins on his road to SummerSlam, but it was probably closer than he hoped.