Former WWE Universal Champion Seth Rollins has told Bleacher Report that “things are tough creatively right now”.
In a wide-ranging interview, the soon-to-be-father said: “In the sense that we don’t know when this whole thing is going to fall, and we’re in the Performance Center, so we’re doing the best we can as far as what the aesthetic looks like, trying to get a crowd in there to make noise. Things from a viewers’ perspective aren’t quite the same. If we’re going under the pretence that we don’t know when live events are coming back and when a live audience is going to be in something the size of a sold-out Boston Gordon or whatever, I think making it more fan-friendly, making it more aesthetically pleasing to an audience of a television show might go a long way.”
Discussing the news that WWE is debuting the ThunderDome concept on this Friday’s SmackDown, he said: “That’s just pulling a rabbit out of a hat, because there’s so many things we all need to work on every day. Not just the company, but myself, the talent around me, everyone in the back, the writers, the consistency, the conversations, the communication, everything could be better.”
He also talked about his Summerslam opponent, Rey Mysterio.
“Rey has been a legend in the industry and has been a major part of it for 30 years,” Rollins explained. “We talk about how essentially he’s the greatest luchador in history and you can argue and debate if you want on that, but at the end of the day, my opinion is that he’s the most influential, the most far-reaching Mexican wrestling Superstar that’s ever been.”