Raw Digitals: Seth Rollins vs. Heath Slater

Seth Rollins vs. Heath Slater (Beat the Clock Challenge)
The authority starts off Raw and has some big SummerSlam plans, it is announced that Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins will participate in a beat the clock challenge. Whoever wins with the shortest time on the clock gets to choose the stipulation for their much anticipated SummerSlam battle.
Seth is orginally scheduled to fight RVD but a last minute announcement switches the veteran with Heath Slater. Seth laughs at the change and basically treats Heath Slater like a joke. He tries to negotiate and convince Slater just simply get counted out or lay down and allow him to win. Slater doesn’t have any negotiations and fires back at Seth. An angry Rollins goes after Slater yelling “you had your chance!” He slams Slater to the mat and takes control of the match and beats him down with boots in the corner. It seems as though Seth has the match completely under his control when Ambrose shows up ringside. Seth yells “look how much time I have left!”

Dean simply shrugs his shoulders and motions to the ring, suggesting Rollins should go ahead and finish the match. Seth goes back to his work briefly but quickly gets distracted as Ambrose snatches up his briefcase. As Seth tries to continue on the match, Dean snatches the contract paper and rips into pieces. He then causally grabs a soda from a ringside fan and drinks some sips. He then decides the rest of the drink belongs in the briefcase and pours it in as Rollins gets worked up watching. During the moments of distraction Slater tries to pin and later roll up Seth and nearly succeeds on both attempts. The briefcase mayhem continues as Ambrose pours popcorn into the case and snatches up JBL’s hat. Dean models the hat and then decides this too belongs in the briefcase. Having filled the case up he stands on the table and swings it around.
In the end the constant distraction gets Rollins off his game and Slater catches a quick win on him!
An astonished Rollins can hardly believe his eyes but his disbelief turns to anger as he stalks over to the announce table and grabs the briefcase. He throws a temper tantrum, hitting the desk and throwing a nearby chair. He dumps out the contents of the briefcase and growls off the back.
On Raw Fallout he is still angry about having to clean up his briefcase.
All of us will have to stay tuned to see what Ambrose decides is the stipulation for this SummerSlam Match-up.

*Admin Note: Due to the brief vacation I went on this week, I hadn’t got a chance to post the Raw Recap for this week. Here it is as promised along with this weeks SmackDown recap! Sorry for the delay on that one this week.

Kane starts off the match as predicted with Rollins wanting nothing to do with Ambrose’s fury tonight. Ambrose tries to go after Seth but he quickly dodges his way around the ring and out of the lunatic’s clutches. Kane goes to work on Ambrose ensuring that he is wore down for Rollins to make his move in the match. Rollins takes advantage of the one sided handicap nature of this match and pounds on Ambrose with his boots and fists. He then tags in Kane to finish off Ambrose. But of course even a bit more of a beating courtesy of Kane isn’t quiet enough to keep Ambrose on the mat and he goes for a suicide dive on both Rollins and Kane. Ambrose begins to attack Rollins with his usual fury but is pulled from the ring by the big red monster. As Kane ensures no damage has been done to Rollins Ambrose rushes back into the ring wielding a chair. He ends up getting DQ’d by hitting Kane with the weapon. Rollins eats some of the chair as well but gets away as Kane deals with the out of control Ambrose.

It seems very clear that when these two get their hands on each other the match will be ever more explosive.

Match Recap from WWE.com
“He’s still got it: Not only did Chris Jericho go move for move with the younger, nimbler Seth Rollins, the former Undisputed Champion may well have knocked off Mr. Money in the Bank if not for an unwelcome intrusion at the end of their first-ever collision. Though the veteran Jericho kept Rollins at bay in the opening moments, a well-timed dodge saw Y2J run headlong into the turnbuckle and left loopy for a lengthy beating by Rollins.
The Ayatollah of Rock ‘n’ Rolla repaid the favor, though, back-body dropping Rollins off the top turnbuckle and setting up an offensive run of his own that ended with The Aerialist unwittingly springboarding into the business end of a Codebreaker. The lights cut out at the moment of truth, however, and revealed The Wyatt Family in the ring moments later. Rowan & Harper wasted no time in attacking Y2J, feeding him to Bray Wyatt for a Sister Abigail that may well be a harbinger of things to come in their newly forged clash at SummerSlam.”

Source: WWE.com
By Anthony Beningo

(Seth Rollins with Marek Brave)

Calling all potential Aerialists, Architects and Money in the Bank Ladder Match winners: Seth Rollins wants to recruit you. The former WWE Tag Team Champion and current Money in the Bank contract holder is starting his most ambitious venture yet: The Black & The Brave Wrestling Academy, which looks to train potential independent (and WWE) competitors in a wholly unexpected way. Just a few weeks ahead of the school’s first training session, Rollins sat down with WWE.com to discuss his academy’s origins, its relationship with the WWE Performance Center and the one piece of advice any recruit must heed to succeed.
WWE.COM: Tell us a little bit about how The Black & The Brave Wrestling Academy came about.
SETH ROLLINS: It was an opportunity I had now that I’m back home in Iowa. My old tag-team partner, Marek Brave, and I were looking for a way to give back to the independent wrestling community in our area in the Midwest. If you look around the country, there are a lot of good places to train, but there are none, really, in the Midwest. We wanted to give an opportunity to young kids, grown half-adults, anybody with a dream, to come to the Iowa, Illinois area, get the best possible training, and hopefully have the best possible eyes on them if they want to succeed and make their way here to WWE.

WWE.COM: How long have you known Marek?
ROLLINS: I’ve known Marek for more than a decade. We grew up together as friends, teenagers, and we started training when we were 18. Like I said, when we started training there was no place around me, so we had to drive to Chicago and apprentice under a local independent wrestler named Danny Daniels. There was just no facility, and nobody to teach you how to break into the business, so to speak. So I’ve known him for 12 years and it’s crazy; we’re trying to just give back now, you know?

WWE.COM: Is there a specific reason you chose now to open the school?
ROLLINS: It just felt like the right time. I feel like I’m in a good position here at the company. I’ve got the Money in the Bank contract, I’ve been successful for a couple years, and I feel firmly implanted in the WWE family, I guess you would say. I feel like it’s a good opportunity. Marek is at a good place in his life where he’s ready to commit more time to something like this, and I just feel it’ll be good, especially moving forward, as something to do in the future as well.

WWE.COM: You are on the road full-time with WWE. Ideally, how much time do you want to spend with the class?
ROLLINS: Class meets three times a week as well as venturing to the independent shows that Marek wrestles at on weekends and stuff like that. When I’m home during the week, I’d like to stop by and build a rapport with the kids and the students, stuff like that, but Marek will be handling the bulk of the training. We’re also bringing on an assistant trainer; my friend Shane Hollister will be a big part of this as well. They’ll be doing the bulk of the in-ring stuff, but I’ll be around to supervise and make sure things run smoothly.

WWE.COM: You also have a partnership with CrossFit; can you talk about that a little?
ROLLINS: Yeah. The reason I wanted to do that is my local CrossFit gym, Quad City CrossFit. A lot of kids never learn – if you’re not an athlete in high school or collegiately, you don’t really learn how to work out. You don’t learn how to move growing up. CrossFit really teaches the basics and fundamentals of proper mechanical movement. It has translated very well for me as far as building the physique and cardiovascular output that I need to be a success in this industry, and I think starting the kids off on that foot, coupling the CrossFit training with the in-ring work, will give them a head start as far as the way it feels to be a WWE Superstar.

WWE.COM: The school offers a three-month program. Does it cover just basics, or does it get into specific styles like yours?
ROLLINS: You’ll get a complimentary membership to the Quad City CrossFit; all their classes, nutrition seminars, all that will be available to the students. At the same time, you’re going to get a 12-week, kind of balls-to-the-wall, all-out training to get you prepared for starting off in the wrestling world – or at least the way that I did it, starting off at a grassroots level and working the independent scene. This should give you all the tools you need to get started, and you’ll be able to progress from there.

WWE.COM: Is there going to be any relationship with the WWE Performance Center?
ROLLINS: There is no affiliation with WWE, [but] they are super-supportive of it. They have given me the go-ahead; I think they see it as good for all parties involved. I’ve got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent. If there’s somebody that I need to recommend to the WWE Performance Center that the coaches down there can take a look at, I certainly can do that, and that’s an advantage of coming to my academy. At the same time, there’s no affiliation with WWE. I’m doing this on my own time, with my own backing. So there’s a partnership, but it’s very unofficial.

WWE.COM: Have you gotten your first class yet?
ROLLINS: We are rounding up applicants as we speak and are accepting them, I would say, based on qualifications. There’s a form on the website that you can go to and fill out. There’s a short essay, some photographs and a lot of follow-up emails and conversations to be had after that. We’ve accepted a few students already for the first class, which begins in August, and once we get a dozen lined up we’ll be able to get going and see what happens. You never really know what’s going on until you do it, right?

WWE.COM: Is there any specific thing you look for in potential applicants?
ROLLINS: Yeah, just a hunger for it, you know what I mean? I don’t want people coming to my school thinking this is gonna be easy or try to find a way to get famous. I guess I’m kind of looking for people who have a little bit of me in them, I suppose. A little bit of – I don’t know what the word is, but I want people who are gonna come in and work hard, just really love and appreciate what we do, and have a passion for it. I think that’ll come across fairly easily. When I read the essays I can tell the difference between the folks who want it and those who are just kind of pretending.

WWE.COM: Is there one piece of free advice you’d like to give the WWE Universe?
ROLLINS: Don’t be a jerk. That’s a good piece of advice. Come with hopes high, head low, open ears, open eyes and work hard, and that’ll get you where you want to be.

SmackDown Digitals: Rollins Attacks Ambrose
SmackDown Captures: Rollins Attacks Ambrose (Caps)

Dean Ambrose vs. Cesaro (with Rollins interfering)
This week Seth sought some revenge on Dean Ambrose by interfering in Dean’s no DQ match against Cesaro. Rollins shows up attacking Ambrose on the floor and attempts to run Dean into the ring post, instead he slams back first into the barricade and is knocked over into the timekeeper area by Dean. As this is no DQ the match continues on with Dean heading to the top rope. This doesn’t bode well for Dean as he is suplexed over the top rope onto the chairs littering the ring. However he manages to steal the situation by rolling up Cesaro. Seth appears after his victory and takes his boot to Ambrose’s body and his face! Cesaro helps him out by hitting his own finisher on Ambrose. Seth stalks around the ring and then bends down to grab Dean by his hair. He screams in his face “When are you gonna learn to stay down!” He finishes off the handiwork with a curb stomp.

Seth Rollins vs. Fandango
Fandango briefly gains the upper-hand in this match and decides to rub it in Seth’s face with his dance moves. Seth angrily slaps the ring apron and climbs back into the ring for another go round. The two trade moves back and forth and Seth Irish whips Fandango into the turnbuckle. Even more determined after this move Seth grabs Fandango in a headlock. Fandango rallies back with punches in the corner and counters Seth with a roll-up attempt. Fandango goes to the corner with a top rope move attempt but Seth grabs his feet and hoists him onto his shoulders. He tosses Fandango into the corner and crashing onto the canvas. Seth hits the curb-stomp! He gets the 3 count.