Hey guys an gals, this week I just want to talk a little bit about the announcement that WWE World Heavyweight and United States Champion, Seth Rollins, will be defending both of his title belts against Sting and John Cena respectively at the upcoming Night of Champions Pay-Per-View.
As announced on Raw this week, John Cena will be invoking his rematch clause after Rollins made it out of SummerSlam with Cena’s US Championship, with the assist going to Jon Stewart on that one. This is surely going to be make or break for Seth Rollins. They’re match at the biggest party of the summer was extraordinary, easily one of the best matches we’ve seen this year, however it still ended (as most of Seth’s matches do, unfortunately), with ‘The Architect’ winning under questionable circumstances.
It’s heavily implied that without the help of Stewart, and a Pedigree onto a steel chair to boot, that Seth Rollins would not be holding any championships right now. Pretty much just like how he wouldn’t have retained the WWE World Title so many times if not for Triple H, Kane, Joey Mercury and Jamie Noble.
The guy is able to pull off all of these amazing feats of athleticism and inspire awe in fans worldwide, but when it comes to hooking the leg and getting that three-count, the guy just hasn’t gotten the job done without a little help from his friends. He only seems to be able to do that in non-title matches on Raw or Smackdown.
Rollins is competing in two matches at Night of Champions, which surely means at least one of them has to end cleanly, and if that’s the case, it’s probably going to be the match with Cena. This is where Seth really gets put to the test, because assuming that this takes place before the World Title Match, the result is going to have a huge impact on Rollins heading into the main event.
If he loses, it’s either going to shake his confidence or make him even more determined to pull off a victory and make it out with at least one title. Probably the latter. If he wins, however, Rollins is definitely going into the main event with a cocky smirk on his face, and that overconfidence could put his World Title defence is jeopardy, especially against The Vigilante.
I do think he needs the victory though, in this match especially. John Cena has been a brilliant United States Champion, but if he manages to beat Seth Rollins yet again, he may as well have won at SummerSlam, and Rollins goes into the main event with zero credibility, no matter how good the match is. It also makes the last couple of weeks pointless, just a mere statistic to say that this guy, one time, held both titles, and it was okay…
Let Seth Rollins beat Cena at Night of Champions and let the rivalry continue to Hell in a Cell, where they can square off again for the last time (in this particular feud). If Cena wins then, well, whatever. But right now, Seth Rollins is “the man” in WWE, and there are guys like Kevin Owens and Daniel Bryan who have climbed the prestigious mountain of defeating John Cena cleanly. It feels like a career highlight that Seth Rollins should have under his belt, and I hope to God he pulls it off in two weeks.
As for the main event, a lot of people are split down the middle, not on whether Sting can defeat Seth Rollins, but on whether he actually deserves the opportunity or not. It’s justifiable to say that Sting has wrestled but one match in the WWE, in which he lost to Triple H at WrestleMania 31, and so he shouldn’t fight for the title. I, however, don’t think like that. If Sting beats Rollins clean, I will probably be a little confused, but a simple match isn’t that bad.
Sting is a professional wrestling legend. He is at the latter end of his career, and it would be a crying shame for him not to ever receive an opportunity at WWE’s grandest prize, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. And hell, if he wins, justify it the same way. The guy has had an extraordinary career, and it only serves WWE’s history books to have his name listed among legends like The Undertaker, Eddie Guerrero, Bruno Sammartino, Edge, The Rock, Stone Cold and Bret Hart as one of its World Champions.
That, however, is not what I expect to happen, at least not at Night of Champions. I don’t expect this match to end with a simple one, two, three, and in usual Seth Rollins fashion, I see that working in his favour. Sting has made it clear that he has a lot of respect for Triple H after WrestleMania, so that’s probably WWE’s way of telling us (or tricking us to believe) that The Authority won’t get involved to help out the prodigal son.
So someone else, or even just an unconscious referee to give Rollins the opening to use a weapon, will be what aids Rollins to victory. I would absolutely love to see Rollins pull off two clean championship defences, but it’s just not likely, and it probably helps Sting’s integrity to lose this match due to outside interference.
The reason I want Seth Rollins to win both matches so badly is that I think this could be a defining moment in his career. You look at Chris Jericho, and what do you think of as his one true defining moment? For most people it’s the night where he defeated both ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin and The Rock in just one night to become the first WWE Undisputed Champion. Even though he already has both titles, Seth Rollins potentially pinning John Cena and Sting in one night would be a modern era equivalent to that.
I can sense some people would turn their noses up at the thought of likening John Cena (or even Sting) to Austin or Rock, but in today’s roster, it would be just as important for Rollins’ career as it was for Chris Jericho on that faithful night at Vengeance. It’s a defining moment that will etch Seth Rollins’ name in the history books forever, and that, my friends, is why the 2015 Night of Champions Pay-Per-View is going to be a must-watch.
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