Seth did another interview with Jan Murphy of chinlock.com about what inspired his WWE career and his future plans with the MITB briefcase!
*Check out some of the best excerpts from this interview and please use the link to read the full article if you wish!

Rollins on A Roll

“He got me hooked when I was at a very young age and I just fell in love with the pageantry of the WWE and the whole process of the entrances and the music and the larger-than-life personalities. I was hooked. I really haven’t looked back since then.”

“I just didn’t have an interest in anything scholastically and I didn’t know what else I wanted to do,” he said, before adding that he and his friends in those days were known to hold impromptu wrestling shows. “At the time, I was farting around with my friends in the backyard and doing stuff we probably shouldn’t have been doing — we were throwing shows for our friends and stuff like that,” Rollins said, admitting that his love of all things wrestling was too powerful to ignore.

While it certainly made sense in the mind of the then-teenager, selling his parents on a career as a wrestler wasn’t so easy.
“They were so apprehensive at first,” Rollins admitted. “They were very upset. My mom, being a good mom, made sure that I did take classes at community college while I was training at first. I probably took a year or two worth of classes. I never got a degree or anything.”

That approach paid huge dividends for Rollins on his way to the top. He succeeded at every stop along the way, including a reign as the Ring of Honor World champ.
Rollins is unwavering in his love and support of independent wrestling.
“I think independent wrestling in the (United) States and in Canada is super important,”…. There’s no way you can mimic that experience of travelling with your buddies in the car and learning night after night from working with guys who are better than you and guys who are worse than you. That is, to me, the ultimate apprenticeship of what we do and really just working your way up and crafting who you are as a professional and as a performer. It’s very important, I think, in what we do.”

“Being the first (champion) is awesome,” he said. “Everybody knows Pat Patterson was the first Intercontinental champion, Jim Duggan won the first Royal Rumble … everyone knows the first so it’s cool to have that honour, to always be the guy who was the first NXT champion and really set the table for what that brand has become. I feel really proud of that.”

“You just outwork everybody,” he said. “That’s the only way. You can talk about all the politics you want and all of the guys who’ve fallen off, so to speak, or whatever it may be, but to me, it’s just a matter of working harder than everybody else.”

“To me the biggest threat, and the biggest enemy, as far as injuries are concerned, is the schedule — the wear and tear; the wrestling every single night; the bumping every night,” he said. “Nine times out of 10, the stuff that really hurts the guys, or we get injured on, isn’t the big stuff…. I mean, we’re year-round. We don’t have breaks, we don’t have an off-season, we don’t have time to recover from our injuries the way a lot of professional athletes do. We are a one-of-a-kind business in that sense.

“Live events are just a lot of fun,” he said. “I enjoy the interactions with the people. They play a much bigger role in the shows than they (do with) TV.”
Asked how a fan might grab his attention, Rollins said: “If I see a good sign or something like that, I’ll give it a nod, or a little wink or something like that, but mostly I just like to get all the people on the same page and then I’ll fight with them a little bit. If it works, it works. If not, then we’ll try something new. Live events are the best, man. They’re a hell of a good time.”

Credit: Jan Murphy
For Full Interview: Seth Rollins Interview on chinlock.com

WWE.com has a new feature showing 10 superstars and their favourite opponents. Seth was included in this article!

Seth Rollins Favourite Opponent is: Daniel Bryan
“Daniel Bryan is my favourite. I don’t know why. It might be because we have similar backgrounds, styles and approach, but every time I’ve ever gotten in the ring with him — from my early days to now — there’s always some sort of crazy electricity that seems to spark between us. It’s one of those things that you can’t really explain, and you don’t need to try. He pushes me beyond my limits. He takes all the things I’m good at physically, mentally and emotionally, and we push each other.
“The singles match we had on Raw was probably my favourite one with him that I’ve had in WWE. The matches in Ring of Honor, we had a little more time and the matches were a little different. My favourite one was in Detroit at a show called New Horizons where I power-bombed him into the turnbuckle and the top buckle broke. It was really crazy. It was one of those moments that no one saw coming and you can’t recreate it. It was terrifying, but if you were there live, you’ll literally never forget it.”

Credit: WWE.com by Zach Linder

Rollins Exclusive:

MITB Contract Match Recap:
Immediately at the start of the match Ambrose goes straight after Rollins with the two tumbling over each other out of the ring and slamming into a camera man before Seth lands in the time-keepers area. Rollins remains there while Ambrose proceeds to knock Kofi Kingston flying off the ladder into several of the other competitors on the floor.
Rollins meets him back in the ring and they engage in a war of who can climb the ladder first, both attempting to scramble up the ladder before the other yanks them off by their pants. No one wins this fun little battle and instead they decide to destroy each other with the ladders as props. Ambrose props a ladder into the corner of the ring and the two engage in a war of strength to see who can suplex who onto this less than desirable metal landing pad. In the end Seth comes out the loser get slammed off the ladder and flopping out of the ring in serious pain.
Everyone left standing decides to all try to climb the ladder at once and people are scrambling everywhere. Dolph and Kofi get furthest up the ladder but get distracted with Jack Swagger and end up sliding right back down to meet Ambrose. Ambrose gets knocked out and we are back to Dolph and Kofi battling it out on top. This doesn’t last long and Seth decides to ram both of them with another ladder. RVD kicks the ladder in Seth’s arms sending him reeling backwards.The two meet in a brief in ring mini match with Seth getting flipped end over end onto the mat. RVD props the ladder up in the corner with his own dastardly plan now; he places the ladder on top of the bottom ring ropes and lays Seth across it….rolling thunder onto the ladder!! There is a brief ECW and “You still got it” chants.
RVD continues laying everyone out and hits his finisher the five star frog splash on Jack Swagger. RVD makes it to the top of ladder but encounters Kofi then Jack Swagger. All men back to the mat and continue fighting and the ladder tips over. Swagger battering both RVD and Kofi with the ladder in the guts. A short time later RVD and Seth again fighting on top of the ladder but far away from the prize. Swagger carrying RVD on his shoulders plants him hard on the mat. Ambrose back in the picture climbing up to meet Seth Rollins. Ambrose superplexing Seth off the top of the ladder with a thundering crash in one of the biggest spots of the night.
More crashing and burning from the other competitors with Swagger getting planted and Kofi Kingston. Swagger climbing up all the way to the top and is met with RVD. Ambrose yanks Swagger off the ladder and clotheslines him while Seth yanks off RVD on the other side. The scramble begins again with Seth and Ambrose punching each other on the top of the ladder. Both men crashing and burning though. Ambrose soon ends up holding his shoulder yelling at officials to pop it back in as Seth looks on with almost a look of mild concern. Dean angry and fighting gets led to the back in severe anger.

Seth is left climbing the ladder with no one around but RVD runs interference this time. Kofi builds himself a sort of bridge to climb up and meet them with a second ladder- propping it on the top rope and a rung of the standing ladder. Seth gets flung off the ladder on top of the propped off ladder. The ladder bounces off the rope and plants Seth on his head and shoulder with a crash. On the ground the battle continues with a famouser to RVD by Dolph. Ziggler kicking the ladder into Swagger’s face. Zig-zag to Kingston with a crash off the ladder laying on flat in the ring. Swagger ankle locks Ziggler part way up the ladder but Ziggler still attempts to keep climbing using only his arms. Seth again crawling up the ladder to chants of we want Ambrose from the crowd. Ambrose is back with a chair viciously beating Seth Rollins with a steel chair. Ambrose climbing up the ladder with one arm! At the top of the ladder Kane’s pyro hits as he continues to try to grab the briefcase. Kane yanking Ambrose off the ladder and delivering a choke-slam and then a tombstone when Ambrose attempts to rise up again. Kane holding the ladder ready for Seth Rollins who climbs his way up to a victory!!! Seth Rollins is your Mr.MITB! After his celebration at the top of the ladder Seth is joined by a very proud HHH and Stephanie McMahon on the top of the entrance ramp for more celebration!