History Awesome / SethRollins

* At the 2022 ''Royal Rumble'', Seth became one of the only people in the company to truly get under the skin of [[BigBad the Tribal Chief]] Wrestling/RomanReigns. Seth entered through the crowd in ''full SHIELD gear'', with the entrance music and everything, and Roman [[VillainousBreakdown looked like he'd seen a ghost]]. The evil gaslighting Head of the Table got played at his own game by the man he'd never forgiven for betraying him, and Seth came within inches of wresting the Universal Championship from Roman.

*** His surprise entrance into the match was also a kind of AuthorsSavingThrow for the match. Brock was a part-timer who rarely showed up to defend his title and people were tired of it. Conversely, fans also were not happy with Roman’s quick ascension to the top of the card and felt he wasn’t ready for his push. When Seth came out, the audience erupted in cheers and, despite effectively stealing the title, the face pop he received when he won the match was deafening.

* At Wrestling/SummerSlam 2015, Rollins once again had a star-making night in his winner-take-all match against John Cena. Clad in a white version of his standard attire as the self-styled "cure" to the Cena "disease", Seth pulled out all the stops for this one and utterly stole the show. And by "all the stops", we don't mean the constant mounds of interference typical of the {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, {{Badass Decay}}ed Seth Rollins we'd seen since he left the Shield for the Authority and especially since his feud with Cena at the tail end of 2014. We mean he continued the recent tradition of Cena's opponents tapping into reserves of their in-ring repertoire previously unseen to the WWE Universe and physically argued the case that even with that decayed booking, and even in the midst of the rise of the NXT Takeover generation[[note]]he was one of the first NXT alumni, but most of his developmental stint had been in the prior FCW and he got called up before the advent of the Takeover specials[[/note]], he is still the most talented wrestler in all of WWE. The only interference Rollins would make use of in this match was an assist from Creator/JonStewart which was neither part of his plan [[labelnote: nor entirely necessary]]as after the ref bump and the knee to the nose, Stewart's chair shot to Cena's sternum could've easily been replaced by Seth kicking Cena low himself and it would've had much the same result[[/labelnote]], but which he still took advantage of by hitting a Pedigree on Cena and pinning him to become the first-ever dual WWE United States and World Heavyweight Champion. And he did it all to a standing ovation.
* Winning the 2015 Slammy for "Superstar Of The Year". What makes it better is that that when he went and received the award, he was greeted by cheers and his speech on returning in 2016 and taking back the championship he never lost, got a pop from the crowd.

* Money in the Bank 2016. After toiling for months to '''redesign''' and '''rebuild''' himself, Seth Rollins walked in the challenger to Roman Reigns, matched the Samoan juggernaut blow for blow, and beat him in an exactly 26-minute main event bout after countering a Spear into a second Pedigree to '''reclaim''' the WWE World Heavyweight Championship title which he never lost. And he did it all BY HIMSELF, without relying on the Authority's help or any other cheap tactics beyond getting more time to kick out at one point because of a ref bump. Granted, he wound up losing it two minutes later, but that's for [[Wrestling/DeanAmbrose somebody else's]] page.

* During a gauntlet match on February 19, Rollins pinned Roman Reigns and John Cena in back to back one-on-one matches! He would last for SIXTY-FIVE MINUTES before being eliminated from the gauntlet - the longest any wrestler has ever competed on a single episode of ''Raw''.
* [=WrestleMania=] XXXIV, Seth defeated the Miz and Finn Balor to win the Intercontinental Championship to become both a Triple Crown Champion and Grand Slam Champion, being the last Shield member to do so.

* ''Royal Rumble 2019'' saw Seth enter the 30-man free-for-all fray in Chicago Bears inspired gear [[note]] Rollins' favorite NFL team [[/note]] at number 10, a third of the way through the match. Despite getting put through one of the announce tables by a bitter Bobby Lashley for eliminating the All-Mighty, Rollins would get back in the ring and last for a total of 43 minutes before coming face to face with [[Wrestling/BraunStrowman The Monster Among Men.]] With both men on the apron, Rollins took out Braun's knee, allowing him to curb stomp the winner of the Greatest Royal Rumble, eliminate him, and punch his ticket to ''Wrestlemania.''

* Defeating Wrestling/BobbyLashley for the United States championship on the October 10th, 2022 edition of ''RAW'' and becoming the second 2-time Wrestling/GrandSlamChampion in WWE history in the process.

* Defeating Wrestling/BobbyLashley for the United States championship on the October 10th, 2022 edition of ''RAW'' and becoming the second 2-time Wrestling/GrandSlam champion in WWE history in the process.

** This is even more impressive when you consider that the build to the match had been booked so badly (combined with some poorly-judged social media behavior by Seth that had soured people on him) that at the start of the match the majority of the crowd were ''against Seth,'' the underdog babyface. But by the end of the match, Seth's sheer in-ring talent and storytelling ability had ''completely'' [[WinBackTheCrowd won over the formerly hostile crowd]] until the same people who had started out booing him were cheering his epic victory!

* After forcing Wrestling/JohnCena to do what he swore he never would and bring back Wrestling/TheAuthority, Seth's WhamLine right before his attempted Curb Stomping of Wrestling/{{Edge}} on the last episode of RAW for 2014 was [[NightmareFuel chilling]]...but also awesome in that WWE let him go so far and be so evil, especially since his character had been deteriorating into impotency.

* March 27, 2017. The go-home ''RAW'' for ''[[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania 33]]''. Rollins shows up for a contract signing for a non-sanctioned match against Wrestling/TripleH. After listening to Triple H talk about success and how important it is in a promo that would have been right at home coming from Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself, Seth fired back with a fantastic WorldOfCardboardSpeech.

* At Wrestling/SummerSlam 2015, Rollins once again had a star-making night in his winner-take-all match against John Cena. Clad in a white version of his standard attire as the self-styled "cure" to the Cena "disease", Seth pulled out all the stops for this one and utterly stole the show. And by "all the stops", we don't mean the constant mounds of interference typical of the {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, {{Badass Decay}}ed Seth Rollins we'd seen since he left the Shield for the Authority and especially since his feud with Cena at the tail end of 2014. We mean he continued the recent tradition of Cena's opponents tapping into reserves of their in-ring repertoire previously unseen to the WWE Universe and physically argued the case that even with that decayed booking, and even in the midst of the rise of the NXT Takeover generation[[note]]he was one of the first NXT alumni, but most of his developmental stint had been in the prior FCW and he got called up before the advent of the Takeover specials[[/note]], he is still the most talented wrestler in all of WWE. The only interference Rollins would make use of in this match was a ShockingSwerve assist from Creator/JonStewart which was neither part of his plan [[labelnote: nor entirely necessary]]as after the ref bump and the knee to the nose, Stewart's chair shot to Cena's sternum could've easily been replaced by Seth kicking Cena low himself and it would've had much the same result[[/labelnote]], but which he still took advantage of by hitting a Pedigree on Cena and pinning him to become the first-ever dual WWE United States and World Heavyweight Champion. And he did it all to a standing ovation.

* Seth Rollins finally cashes in his Money in the Bank at the main event of Wrestlemania 31 to turn the championship match into a Triple Threat, then proceeds to Curbstomp Brock Lesnar, then do another stomp to Roman Reigns as he attempts to spear Brock out of the ring, then pins Reigns to become the new WWE World Heavyweight Champion.
** Twofold awesomeness: He becomes the first MITB winner to cash in spoiler: at ''Wrestlemania'' ''AND'' the first to cash in ''during'' a championship match.

*** Becoming the first heel to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship AND walk out with the title at Wrestlemania.

* At Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank 2015, Seth Rollins and Wrestling/DeanAmbrose waged war in a brutal 35 minute ladder match for the title. Rollins managed to grab the belt as both men fell down, holding the title. After weeks of being derided for being dependent on outside help, Rollins won without any interference whatsoever.

* At Wrestling/SummerSlam 2015, Rollins once again had a star-making night in his winner-take-all match against John Cena. Clad in a white version of his standard attire as the self-styled "cure" to the Cena "disease", Seth pulled out all the stops for this one and utterly stole the show. And by "all the stops", we don't mean the constant mounds of interference typical of the {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, {{Badass Decay}}ed Seth Rollins we'd seen since he left the Shield for the Authority and especially since his feud with Cena at the tail end of 2014. We mean he continued the recent tradition of Cena's opponents tapping into reserves of their in-ring repertoire previously unseen to the WWE Universe and physically argued the case that even with that decayed booking, and even in the midst of the rise of the NXT Takeover generation[[note]]he was one of the first NXT alumni, but most of his developmental stint had been in the prior FCW and he got called up before the advent of the Takeover specials[[/note]], he is still the most talented wrestler in all of WWE. The only interference Rollins would make use of in this match was a ShockingSwerve assist from Creator/JonStewart which was neither part of his plan [[labelnote: nor entirely necessary]]as after the ref bump and the knee to the nose, Stewart's chair shot to Cena's sternum could've easily been replaced by Seth kicking Cena low himself and it would've had much the same result[[/labelnote]], but which he still took advantage of by hitting a Pedigree on Cena and pinning him to become the first ever dual WWE United States and World Heavyweight Champion. And he did it all to a standing ovation.

* January 9, 2017. Rollins entered Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon's office while she was talking to Wrestling/MickFoley to declare, to her face, that he was going to enter the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'' main event -- but before he could finish talking, [[WrestlingMonster Braun Strowman]] barged into the office to demand that Foley give him a match against either Wrestling/RomanReigns or {{Wrestling/Goldberg}} (as last week's episode of Raw had ended with the two men spearing him simultaneously). However, Rollins went up to Strowman, demanded that he never interrupt him, and when Strowman blew him off, [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu he reacted by PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE.]] This led into the two men having a match against each other, and though the match officially ended in a double count-out, it ended with Rollins ''successfully driving off'' the Monster Among Men.

* March 13, 2017. Five weeks after Rollins went down with a torn MCL suffered in a Coquina Clutch courtesy of Wrestling/SamoaJoe. During the final segment, Wrestling/MickFoley was confronting both Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon and Wrestling/TripleH in the ring, and it was going badly for him. Triple H had threatened Foley with [[KickTheDog his children's jobs]], and he'd suffered a [[GroinAttack low blow]] from Stephanie after he lost it and put Hunter in the [[FinishingMove Mandible Claw]]. Then, to the shock of everyone, Rollins's music hits, and he hobbles out on his crutch. He makes his way down to ringside, then lifts the crutch at arm's length...''and lets it drop to the floor''. Then he unzips his jacket, [[ProductPlacement revealing a brand new, awesome-looking "Kingslayer" T-shirt]], then slides into the ring and ''brawls with Triple H.'' He even gets the better of him at first, after a side kick (kicking with the injured leg) followed by a dropkick that sent Triple H flying out of the ring! Like Foley's moment, he ultimately didn't come out on top, but he showed everyone that he was able to go after just five weeks of recovery and rehab. Wrestling/JohnCena has a rival when it comes to healing quickly, it would seem.

* On the May 1, 2017 edition of Monday Night Raw, after a lackluster outing against Wrestling/SamoaJoe on the Payback PPV[[note]]with the entire audience deflating around the time that match happened in reaction to the aptly named pre-taped "House of Horrors" gimmick "match" between Wrestling/RandyOrton and Wrestling/BrayWyatt[[/note]], Seth showcased how much of a main event player he truly was with his triple threat match against Wrestling/TheMiz and his Universal Title rival Wrestling/FinnBalor for a shot at the Intercontinental Title of Wrestling/DeanAmbrose.
** Seth's Superplex plus Falcon Arrow combo on the Miz that almost ended the match then and there deserves a special mention.

* January 15, Monday Night Raw saw Rollins take on Finn Balor. Pretty awesome in its own right, but the best came at the end of the match after Rollins' partner Wrestling/JasonJordan took advantage of the brawl between The Club and The Bar to trip Balor. With Balor struggling to get up Rollins [[https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/status/953117310117703681 would bring back the Curb Stomp]] for the first time in nearly three years. The reaction was one of the loudest of the night, on a show that saw Braun Strowman ''tip a truck.''

* ''Royal Rumble 2019'' saw Seth enter the 30-man free-for-all fray in Chicago Bears inspired gear [[note]] Rollins' favorite NFL team [[/note]] at number 10, a third of the way through the match. Despite getting put through one of the announce tables by a bitter Bobby Lashley for eliminating the All Mighty, Rollins would get back in the ring and last for a total of 43 minutes before coming face to face with [[Wrestling/BraunStrowman The Monster Among Men.]] With both men on the apron, Rollins took out Braun's knee, allowing him to curb stomp the winner of the Greatest Royal Rumble, eliminate him and punch his ticket to ''Wrestlemania.''
* Seth Rollins now has another title to add to his resumé: ''[[DefeatingTheUndefeatable The Beast Slayer]]''. Rollins manages to win the WWE Universal Championship against Wrestling/BrockLesnar during ''Wrestlemania 35''. The way he wins it is impressive too: before Rollins could fully enter the ring and the bell to start the match could sound out, Lesnar spent the better part of about 10 minutes brutalizing Rollins. By the time the bell rings, Rollins could barely stand as Lesnar continues to give him consecutive German suplexes. However, Rollins manages to counter Lesnar's attempt at an F-5 and push Lesnar towards the referee, pushing the ref outside of the ring. This gives Rollins the opportunity to pay Lesnar back for the cheap beatdown by giving the champion a GroinAttack before following up with a super kick. Rollins then wills himself to give Lesnar not one, not two, but ''three'' Curb Stomps before pinning Lesnar for the three count. Rollins' celebration at the end of the match is also worth mentioning, as he holds the belt up high at the entrance ramp while Lesnar is left seething in the middle of the ring.

* [=SummerSlam=] 2019, Rollins defeated Lesnar to become the Universal Champion for the second time. This was the [[ThirdTimesTheCharm third time he got a win over Lesnar]] and, apart from ringpost and table-breaking attacks, was also Brock's first clean loss since Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2016, which coincidentally also took place in Toronto.

* ''Summerslam 2018'' saw Rollins take on Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship Ziggler (and Drew [=McIntyre=]) stole from him. The 20-minute match may have been the show opener, but it was cited as the match of the night, and Seth's inverted superplex-into-modified-brainbuster was definitely a [[HolyShitQuotient "Holy Shit" moment]].

* On the May 1, 2017 edition of Monday Night Raw, after a lackluster outing against Wrestling/SamoaJoe on the Payback PPV (with the entire audience deflating around the time that match happened in reaction to the aptly named pre-taped "House of Horrors" gimmick "match" between Wrestling/RandyOrton and Wrestling/BrayWyatt), Seth showcased how much of a main event player he truly was with his triple threat match against Wrestling/TheMiz and his Universal Title rival Wrestling/FinnBalor for a shot at the Intercontinental Title of Wrestling/DeanAmbrose.

* [=SummerSlam=] 2019, Rollins defeated Lesnar to become the Universal Champion for the second time. This was the [[ThirdTimesTheCharm third time he got a win over Lesnar]] and, apart from ringpost and table-breaking attacks, was also Brock's first clean loss since Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2016, which coincidentally also took place in Toronto.

** The celebration is worth noting because it was a bit of a CallBack to the end of Wrestlemania 31, with Rollins standing tall as champion.

* Seth Rollins now has another title to add to his resumé: ''[[DefeatingTheUndefeatable The Beast Slayer]]''. Rollins manages to win the WWE Universal Championship against Wrestling/BrockLesnar during ''Wrestlemania 35''. The way he wins it is impressive too: before Rollins could fully enter the ring and the bell to start the match could sound out, Lesnar spent the better part of about 10 minutes brutalizing Rollins. By the time the bell rings, Rollins could barely stand as Lesnar continues to give him consecutive German suplexes. However, Rollins manages to counter Lesnar's attempt at an F-5 and push Lesnar towards the referee, pushing the ref outside of the ring. This gives Rollins the opportunity to pay Lesnar back for the cheap beatdown by giving the champion a GroinAttack before following up with a super kick. Rollins then wills himself to give Lesnar not one, not two, but ''three'' Curb Stomps before pinning Lesnar for the three count. Rollins' celebration at the end of the match is also worth mentioning, as he holds the belt up high at the entrance ramp while Lesnar is left seething in the middle of the ring.

* ''Royal Rumble 2019'' saw Seth enter the 30-man free-for-all fray in Chicago Bears inspired gear [[note]] Rollins' favorite NFL team [[/note]] at number 10, a third of the way through the match. Despite getting put through one of the announce tables by a bitter Bobby Lashley for eliminating the All Mighty, Rollins would get back in the ring and last for a total of 43 minutes before coming face to face with [[Wrestling/BraunStrowman The Monster Among Men.]] With both men on the apron, Rollins took out Braun's knee, allowing him to curb stomp the winner of the Greatest Royal Rumble, eliminate him and punch his ticket to ''Wrestlemania.''

* ''Summerslam 2018'' saw Rollins take on Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship Ziggler (and Drew [=McIntyre=]) stole from him. The 20-minute match may have been the show opener, but it was cited as the match of the night, and Seth's inverted superplex-into-modified-brainbuster was definitely a [[HolyShitQuotient "Holy Shit" moment]].

* His small Twitter rant, in which he basically mocks WWE's UnpleasableFanbase about how last year they just wanted the title away from Lesnar due to the fact that he basically never showed up to defend it, yet now they want him to win it back.

* [=WrestleMania=] XXXIV, Seth defeated the Miz and Finn Balor to win the Intercontinental Championship to become both a Triple Crown Champion and Grand Slam Champion, being the last Shield member to do so.

* During a gauntlet match on February 19, Rollins pinned Roman Reigns and John Cena in back to back one-on-one matches! He would last for SIXTY-FIVE MINUTES before being eliminated from the gauntlet - the longest any wrestler has ever competed on a single episode of ''Raw''.

* At SummerSlam 2015, Rollins once again had a star-making night in his winner-take-all match against John Cena. Clad in a white version of his standard attire as the self-styled "cure" to the Cena "disease", Seth pulled out all the stops for this one and utterly stole the show. And by "all the stops", we don't mean the constant mounds of interference typical of the {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed, {{Badass Decay}}ed Seth Rollins we'd seen since he left the Shield for the Authority and especially since his feud with Cena at the tail end of 2014. We mean he continued the recent tradition of Cena's opponents tapping into reserves of their in-ring repertoire previously unseen to the WWE Universe and physically argued the case that even with that decayed booking, and even in the midst of the rise of the NXT Takeover generation[[note]]he was one of the first NXT alumni, but most of his developmental stint had been in the prior FCW and he got called up before the advent of the Takeover specials[[/note]], he is still the most talented wrestler in all of WWE. The only interference Rollins would make use of in this match was a ShockingSwerve assist from Creator/JonStewart which was neither part of his plan [[labelnote: nor entirely necessary]]as after the ref bump and the knee to the nose, Stewart's chair shot to Cena's sternum could've easily been replaced by Seth kicking Cena low himself and it would've had much the same result[[/labelnote]], but which he still took advantage of by hitting a Pedigree on Cena and pinning him to become the first ever dual WWE United States and World Heavyweight Champion. And he did it all to a standing ovation.

* January 15, Monday Night Raw saw Rollins take on Finn Balor. Pretty awesome in its own right, but the best came at the end of the match after Rollins' partner Wrestling/JasonJordan took advantage of the brawl between The Club and The Bar to trip Balor. With Balor struggling to get up Rollins [[https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/status/953117310117703681 would bring back the Curb Stomp]] for the first time in nearly three years. The reaction was one of the loudest of the night, on a show that saw Braun Strowman ''tip a truck.''

** Even though he lost the match due to interference from Samoa Joe, it still raised Seth's stock and helped out his previously bland HeelFaceTurn, especially after wrestling legend Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin made comments about him not being "all the way over" on his podcast.

-->"That is the same line of bullcrap that I brought into three years ago. Well, this is not three years ago. And you say you don't understand me, so let me explain something to you. When you're out rehabbing — [[CallBack and you should know this better than anybody]] — when you're out rehabbing, you have a lot of time to think, to gain perspective. [[WhatHaveIBecome And you know what I learned about me? …I liked myself before I met you.]] I was proud of myself before Imet you. And you know what? I-I didn't really mind wrestling for a hot dog and a handshake in the Philadelphia National Guard Armory. Didn't bother me. [[DoingItForTheArt Because I love this business!]] And that made me happy! And sure, when you and I got together, side by side, man, we accomplished a lot. But at what cost? What did I give up for that? This isn't about fame, or fortune, or money, or power, and hell, dude, it's…it's not even about one match at ''[=WrestleMania=]''. [[RedemptionQuest This is about redemption!]] You understand that? Not revenge; redemption! Because I gave up ''everything'' to stand next to you. Every friendship I ever had, everything that made me who I was — I gave that up to stand next to you, and for what? [[AndThenWhat For what!?]] At ''[=WrestleMania=]'', [[{{Determinator}} you'd better be prepared to tear my leg off my body and beat me with it! You'd better have a stretcher standing by to guide me out of there! Because there will be NOTHING stopping me from tearing you apart and getting back what matters most to me in my life,]] and that's who I was before I met you! That's getting back [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SETH. FREAKIN'. ROLLINS!]]"

-->'''Seth:''' Damn, you gotta know me better than that, John. I'm gonna kill him anyway.

** The Superplex plus Falcon Arrow combo that Seth did to the Miz that almost ended the match then and there deserves a special mention.

** The Superplex plus Falcon Arrow combo that Seth did to the Miz that almost ended the match then and there.