Seth Rollins has opened up on Vince McMahon banning the Stomp following his first WWE Championship victory.
Seth Rollins won the first of his current six world championship in the main event of WrestleMania 31 back in 2015, cashing in Money In The Bank during the main event between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar to win the title.
Rollins won the title with his Curb Stomp finishing move, before the move was banned shortly after, with Rollins adopting the Pedigree as his finisher.
Speaking to Complex News, Rollins opened up on WWE banning the Stomp, recalling it happening the night after WrestleMania.
He said:
“It sucked because I was given no heads up, and it was right after I won the World Title for the first time with that move that I’d been using for years as a finish, and it had built up a ton of equity.
“Then all of a sudden ‘so I don’t think we’re gonna use that anymore’. What the- ‘It’s too dangerous, and I know you’re not dangerous, you’re very safe, but kids can do it too easily at home’. I don’t know what happened, somebody got in his ear and said it was somehow a problem.
“I’m like dude, it’s wrestling, if any kid imitates any wrestling move they’re gonna hurt; (Becky’s) Armbar, if someone puts an Armbar on they’re gonna snap a shoulder off. The Rock Bottom, all of it, a punch to the nose, if you don’t know how to do it, of course it’s gonna hurt somebody.
“I thought it was so silly but whatever, it’s not my sandbox, but it was on a whim. Like literally I did the move Sunday, won the title, beat Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar, then fly to New York from San Francisco, do the Today Show, pet a couple dogs, say hi to Katie and Matt, fly back to Santa Clara to do Raw, and I go and Vince is like ‘I gotta talk to you about something, we’re not gonna do that anymore’.
“I went ‘what do you want me to do’. They wanted me to do like a Frog Splash, and I’m like absolutely not, I’m not doing that every single night. I like my knees, I like my elbows, it’s not happening. So then it was the process of trying to figure out a new finisher, and thankfully I was in the mentorship of Triple H at the time and no-one else had ever used the Pedigree as a finishing move, and he was not an active performer at the time.
“He was hesitant about it too, he didn’t like it, I think he really hates it now because people kick out of it sometimes, I fully diluted it, but it worked for the time being, it got the desired reaction, it already had the 20 years of equity to it, which is the hardest thing to do with a finisher. Anything can be a finisher, you just have to beat people with it for a while.”
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Rollins is currently out of action with a shoulder injury he suffered back at WWE Crown Jewel in Perth in October.
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