During an interview with The New York Post, Seth Rollins spoke about his upcoming match against Roman Reigns at WWE Royal Rumble this weekend.
āIām extremely confident Iāll beat Roman Reigns, based on our past history. Yeah, you can look at it and say heās in a different place now. Well Iām in a different place too. Weāre both very much at the top of our game, the best versions of ourselves, and have been improving on the same arc. I definitely feel like Iāve gotten inside his head. Iāve rattled him a little bit. I may be the only person who can do that on our modern roster.ā
On his history of winning big matches against Reigns:
āYou may be able to find a stray tag match here or there or a random Raw, but when it comes to main title matches, no, Romanās never beaten me. I won the match at Money in the Bank decisively.ā
Rollins spoke about his mental advantage.
āWe spent hours and hours together when we were in The Shield. Days if you count it all up. I spent more time with him than I did with my family in those years. We rode in cars together, slept in hotel rooms together, went to the gym together, ate together. Literally anything and everything.
āI know all of the things that bother him, all the things that donāt. I know all his insecurities. Look, itās not like we havenāt stayed close, either. There arenāt too many people on the roster who understand what weāve been through over the last 10 years. I know everything. He knows everything about me too ā make no bones about that. But Iām just being a little jerk. Iām just better at needling him than he is me. Thatās just our personality types.ā
āWe have essentially been tethered to each other for the last 10 years. Itās wild and crazy to think itās been that long. The days move slow sometimes in this gig, but the years move fast.ā
Rollins spoke about a possible Hollywood career later.
āIf it happens, it happens. I donāt have a ton of aspirations as far as Hollywood is concerned and being in commercials or movies. If it comes it comes. Iām not going to force that sort of thing. I always love to see people like John Cena, Batista, The Rock and my wife Becky Lynch do things outside of WWE, but Iām very content in doing what Iām doing.ā
On wanting to help younger talent:
āIāve always just wanted to leave the business better and help everybody else on the way up. At 35-36, the next phase of my career, however long that lasts, is to focus on trying to help set the business up when Iām done and not the guy on top.ā