WWE superstar Seth Rollins injured his knee during a Saturday Night's Main Event match against LA Knight. It led to the match immediately going to the finish and Rollins being helped to the back by officials. Since then, conflicting reports of the severity of his injury have floated around though by most accounts, he is expected to be sidelined for a while. Speaking on the Rich Eisen show today, Rollins made his first public comments on the injury, suggesting that he will be out for a while but is hoping to be back for next year's WrestleMania season.
" I'm sitting down, I look great, I can see myself on the monitor right here. I look great, I'm not gonna lie. But underneath this monitor I do have a leg brace on; over in the corner are my crutches. This past Saturday I was in a match on Saturday Night's Main Event, a special on NBC on Peacock. I was in a match with LA Knight and I hurt my knee. I was doing a move that I do all the time. It's a moonsault, a back flip. In this particular instance, I was landing not on my belly but I was landing on my feet. When I landed, I felt my knee kinda pop and buckle...we got outta the match and we moved forward. Monday, I was in Birmingham, Alabama where our specialists are at. We tried to take a look at the knee through some imaging. It was a little too swollen so we're gonna take another look, hopefully in a week or two here in LA, to try to get something, some sort of firm diagnosis and then we can go from there. I am not a doctor. I only know my body and what I feel and what I feel is that this is gonna be me out for an extended period of time. We were talking off air earlier. It is a bummer. But look, it is what it is. Our business moves on. This isn't the first time that I've been injured, it won't be the last time. And I've always just got WrestleMania in the back of my mind. I'm like, can I make it back for WrestleMania, for WrestleMania season, for the whole thing? And so my brain always goes there, and I feel good about that, but beyond a firm timeline, I just won't know until we get a better answer on the MRI. So that's where it's at.
