In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania it seemed that Seth Rollins had no clear path to the Grandest Stage of Them All. Eventually it wad determined that Seth would face a mystery opponent which made things very interesting as it was rumored that Cody Rhodes would be returning to WWE.
Cody did indeed return to WWE at WrestleMania, and he defeated Seth Rollins in his first match back with the company. Rollins opened up about his reaction to the loss during an interview with Ariel Helwani of BT Sport where he noted that he was a little frustrated with the situation.
“Um, you know, it was maybe when I heard Cody was coming over when we finally got the news, which was very last minute as far as WrestleMania is concerned. When we finally you know, I knew that that was going to be a match, I think it was pretty obvious to me which way things were going to lean.
It didn’t stop me from being a little frustrated, you know, again, feeling like I was being used to kind of catapult somebody else into a position I felt like I deserved, and so that was pretty, you know, kind of demoralising. But again, that’s just more of a chip on my shoulder so that by the time we got to Wrestlemania, I was ready to just have the match that night. My wife and Bianca would have something to say about that, they kind of tore it up right before us. But we’re in contention, I would say for match of the two night event.”
The American Nightmare went on to defeat Seth Rollins at the next two WWE premium live events as well, but Seth doesn’t feel like the losses hurt him in the long run.
“Then you look at, you know, what, what we want to do accomplished over the next two pay-per-views. And, you know, who knows if things would have been different had he not torn his pec? I don’t know. But that’s just how life works sometimes. And at the end of the day, in retrospect, I definitely think I came out of it a lot better than I went into it. Like, I don’t think in any way that I suffered from losing three times in a row.
I think if anything, I in some ways got more respect for, you know, having the I don’t know the humility to put my own self interests aside to work with someone who needed in coming back into this world from his, you know, past world. He needed it a lot more than I did. My equity is not going anywhere and he needed to re-establish himself.”
