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At the latest Saturday Night's Main Event show, Seth Rollins had a one on one match with LA Knight. At the end of the match, Rollins was looking like injured his knee and Knight took advantage of the situation by defeating him instantly. But Rollins looked seriously hurt, and their were concern about his health.
Heartbreaking reports were coming out after Saturday Night's Main Event that the injury of Seth Rollins may keep him out of action for at least 8 to 10 months, which also had the implication that The Architect may even miss out on WWE WrestleMania 42. His fans were seriously concerned about this news.
Was Seth Rollins really injured?
However, at SummerSlam last weekend, Rollins made a shocking retired and cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on CM Punk to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Rollins' present manager, Paul Heyman recently addressed his injury. On “The Ariel Helwani Show,” he was asked whether the injury was real, and he clearly said, "No." He also briefed the following;
“The story since ‘Mania is a power grab. That this is what we’re calling The Vision. And The Vision was, Seth Rollins in a position of power to lead WWE and indeed the entire industry into the future. So how do you get that power grab, you need the title, so we needed the title. So every time Seth Rollins was getting himself in a position to where he could go for the championship, CM Punk kept interfering.
Seth Rollins picked up an injury at SNME
"Because Seth Rollins made the statement, as long as I’m here, CM Punk will never be champion. And Punk decided to reverse that on Seth Rollins. So Seth Rollins realized, he’s never gonna be champion as long as CM Punk is around, or at least as long as CM Punk sees Seth Rollins going for a title, so we need plan B. Plan B became get the Money in the Bank briefcase, and get out of the way, out of sight, out of mind.
"So Punk never sees it coming. It just so happens, CM Punk ends up in the title match at Summerslam, a happy coincidence on our part. It just so happens CM Punk happens to win at Summerslam. Now CM Punk didn’t take that beating from Gunther, it would not have made sense for Seth Rollins to cash in the Money in the Bank briefcase at Summerslam.
Rollins returned at Summerslam by revealing his injury was fake
"The idea was, wait for a champion, Gunther, or Punk, or anybody who can beat Gunther, and not a lot can, is in a position of vulnerability, cash it in so that Punk can interfere in the match to stop Seth Rollins from winning the title. It just so happens that Punk was in the match, it just so happens that Punk won the match. So talk about all the stars aligning.”
This fake injury of Rollins would have been sold in a little better way if they had included some angle with the Money in the Bank that Paul Heyman was carrying all the time during the injury storyline. A large number of fans were already expecting that the injury would have all been a ruse. But ultimately, it was an exciting storyline, and the reawakening of the feud between Seth Rollins and CM Punk with the World Heavyweight Championship on the line could be more exciting.
