WWE Hall of Famer Road Dogg (Brian James) recently revealed how the former WWE Champion Seth Rollins had turned down a small tip of advice regarding the latter’s moves. Rollins has some spectacular moves in his arsenal and was not willing to change a move in particular.
Seth Rollins was not in favor of changing his move
Road Dogg went to NXT back when Rollins had just arrived on the scene using the “Tyler Black” moniker. Brian James said that Rollins was the perfect example of independent wrestlers having a few unfavorable habits from their pre-WWE days. He explained one particular move of Rollins, which he felt was anticlimactic.
Seth Rollins’ forearm strike in the corner previously had an incredibly long build-up. The WWE legend had advised ‘The Visionary’ to do something better in the end. But Rollins was not in favor of altering the move and made it clear to Dogg.
The Hall of Famer went on to have a conversation about the matter with Triple H, who back then operated the brand. Dogg recalled the incident during an AdFreeShows Q&A session:
“He used to do this thing in the corner where he would jump up and down, jump up and down and run like he was in a mosh pit, and then run and hit the guy with a forearm. And I thought, ‘Oh, man, that’s so anticlimactic. Like if you jump up and down and you’re really warming up, and then you run and hit the guy with a flipper.”
He added:
“I don’t know; it didn’t seem right; it seemed like the build-up was bigger than the finish-up,” opined Road Dogg. “So I went up to him and told him that, and he said, ‘No, that’s what I do. I’m not changing it; that’s what I do.’ I went to Hunter and said, ‘Well, that kid, I’ll never talk to him again.’ You know what I mean?”
When it came to Seth Rollins, Road Dogg felt that the former ROH star could have at least pretended to consider his pointers about his in-ring work. As the WWE Hall of Famer noted, Rollins made alterations to the maneuver, and Road Dogg felt it was the right call:
“So his bad habit was not saying, ‘Okay, thank you, sir,’ or whatever being respectful and not doing what I said [laughs] for any other young wrestler,” added the WWE legend. “But at least, pretend to respect what I’m telling you, you know what I mean? What I was telling him was right, he did change it, and he did come up with someone that was had a bigger pop than the setup to it.”
