Seth Rollins Shares His True Feelings About His Feud With The Fiend

Turns out Seth Rollins disliked what he was forced to do with The Fiend as much as the fans did.

It has been almost a year since Bray Wyatt was repackaged and reintroduced as The Fiend. Those first few months were perfect and it finally seemed as if WWE had found the perfect role for The Eater of Worlds. Then something changed. The moment it changed was when stepped inside of Hell in a Cell with Seth Rollins.

The match ended with Rollins piling steel chairs on Wyatt's head and swinging a sledgehammer at them. At that point, the cell was lifted and officials rushed to Wyatt's side. Boos rang out around the arena as one of the whole points of a HIAC match is that it can't be stopped until there's a winner. Look no further than Mankind versus The Undertaker at King of the Ring 1998 for evidence of that.

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The match inadvertently started a Rollins heel turn. A heel turn that Rollins very much did not want to go through as he revealed to Pete Rosenberg on the Cheap Heat podcast recently. "It wasn’t something that I was excited about out of the gate. I feel like I got a raw end of the deal," Rollins explained. He also reminded listeners that just two months before, he had beaten Brock Lesnar for the Universal Title.

Shortly after their HIAC match, Wyatt and Rollins competed again at Crown Jewel. It was there that WWE tried to repair the damage done in the first match by crowning The Fiend Universal Champion. That effectively confirmed Rollins had turned heel over a very short amount of time. It wasn't something he was on board with then, but the role appears to have grown on him.

Honestly, looking back on Rollins' past six years in WWE, he is much better suited to being a heel than a babyface. Him turning on The Shield, and cashing in on Lesnar at WrestleMania 31 are two of the most memorable moments in his career, and both were big heel moments. There's also plenty of potential when it comes to his current faction on Raw, although the Covid-19 issues might have derailed its momentum.

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