2018 was a year full of ups and downs for Roman Reigns. He finally defeated Brock Lesnar to win the Universal Title, but shortly after his big win he had to vacate the belt and take time off to focus on his battle with leukemia.
Roman made his big announcement at the beginning of Raw, and later that night Dean Ambrose turned heel on Seth Rollins.
The heel turn was controversial due to the timing, but during a Q&A at a Gorilla Position event Rollins revealed that Triple H let them make the decision in regards to when the heel turn should happen.
“No one knew about that announcement that Roman made at the start of the show. Maybe a handful of people that were aware that that was going to happen. Myself and Ambrose were not two of those people. It was kept very close to the vest for a reason. The plan was to do that turn that night before the diagnosis came through that week. Roman had gotten some testing done. They had him do some extra testing and figured out that his leukemia had returned, and it was all up in the air, but the plan was still to do the turn, it was going to happen that night. After the announcement was made, we got all the emotional stuff out of the way.”
“Triple H came to us, and told Ambrose and I that it was our decision, how we wanted to do that. If we felt wrong, like it was something that we needed to push back a week, we could do that as well. Ambrose and I decided collectively that it would be best to do it that night. We thought the emotional response would be proper and that Roman, he wouldn’t mind. It’s pro wrestling you know, we are in the business of telling stories and a lot of that involves emotional rollercoasters, so we wanted to do that, and from a storytelling perspective it turned out really well.”
Seth talking about the night Dean had to turn and them not knowing about Romans announcement but that trips came up to them & said that it was up to them if they still wanted to go through with it and they collectively agreed it was best and roman wouldn't of minded. pic.twitter.com/PMJIrAdtJE
— Heel Seth supporter🤗🏳️🌈 (@TashaXXRollins) December 12, 2019
