Seth Rollins Talks Being Upset At Production On The RAW After WrestleMania 39

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WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth "Freakin" Rollins spoke with SI Media's Jimmy Traina on a variety of topics such as an interesting moment during a commercial break at the WWE Monday Night RAW episode after WrestleMania 39, where Seth said during a backstage interview that he was feeling good and felt the party wasn’t backstage, but rather in the ring.

Seth then made his way out to the ring before the show went to commercial break and when WWE RAW came back from the break, the WWE World Heavyweight Champion had his arms open while the crowd chanted his theme, but Rollins just suddenly left the ring without saying a word. A footage of Rollins talking to the production crew was captured, leading to speculation that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon may have had something to do with plans getting nixed for the segment as Vince changed other plans during the show as well.

Seth Rollins said:

“That was not a big deal. I was upset, but it was mostly production, a miscommunication. That was the night after Mania, and the intent of the segment was to go to break with the audience singing my song, allow them to sing during the break, come back up, they might still be singing, and then drift off into nothingness. For whatever reason, that never made it through to production, so when we go to commercial, instead of letting the crowd party, they did the thing where they black the house, shutdown the music, and play the stupid video packages, which messed up what the whole plan was. The crowd was trying to sing, but you have Stone Cold Steve Austin talking about Broken Skull Ranch. ‘Did no one get the memo?’ It was just a production snafu. In the middle of the commercial break, I’m yelling to try to get it turned off so they could keep singing, but it was already a disaster. The crowd was confused and didn’t know what to make of it. We came back and did the rest of the segment, but it didn’t translate the way you wanted because the crowd wasn’t able to participate the way the segment was meant to be planned. I wasn’t really upset about that, it was just a bad handling.”

You can check out Seth "Freakin" Rollins' comments at this link, along with a video below of Rollins talking with the production crew. H/T to Fightful.com for transcribing the above quotes.