Seth Rollins was a special guest on Sports Illustrated Media podcast during which he discussed the references to WWE that AEW makes on their programming.

Rollins acknowledged when he mentioned Jon Moxley, but explained the differences between that and AEW acknowledging WWE on their shows.

"Everyone knows he's a part of our history. You can't do Seth and Roman without Dean or Mox, whatever you want to call him, you can't do it. To ignore that part of our history and to just try and put him aside and focus on Roman and Seth, the focus was Roman and Seth, that was the story but he's a part of that. So, to just ignore that and completely pretend he didn't exist is just silly. I referred to him by the name that he prefers to go by and so that's where we're at with that. I heard nothing in response to it backstage at all. I didn't use the reference to Mox to talk down to somebody. I wasn't trying to diminish anybody's accomplishments, it wasn't like that. He's part of our story. Roman wouldn't be the same if it wasn't for him and I."

"The other side of that coin is the way that it can be used by those guys. They can do whatever they want, I find it very tacky and very low-brow, personally. I think it looks and reeks of desperation and I just don't think it's anything on our television show that we need to go there and talk down about those guys. They're doing their thing, they're doing it very well, we're very happy for them, I am, at least, personally. Are they on our level? No, they've got a long way to go to catch up to us and that's fine and they know that. They do things differently but for me, my perspective, it's just a little step down for us to kind of use it as an insult. That's my perspective on it but people may not share that opinion."