Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch were the guests on the latest episode of The Kittle Things
, a podcast hosted by San Francisco 49ers tight end (and pro wrestling mega fan) George Kittle and his wife, Claire. During the conversation, Kittle wondered about Rollins’ status as a headliner at WrestleMania. Are we counting the WrestleMania 31 show in Santa Clara when he cashed in to make the Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar match a triple threat?Seth doesn’t count it.
He also doesn’t count night one of WrestleMania
40, where he teamed with Cody Rhodes to take on Reigns & The Rock to help set up night two, which he was also involved in. How he told it:
“Most people consider it the main event, like part of the main event. If you look at it on the lineup it would be because it’s technically a triple threat match, because I changed the match to a triple threat. But I was not on the marquee, like I wasn’t advertised as the main event. So, at this point, there’s many, many arguments to be had. I feel like I have never been in a main event of WrestleMania.
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“I’ve had night one main events, and I helped in the night two main event at WrestleMania 40 with Cody and Roman, and I had the cash in. But I’ve never been the person on the marquee to finish the show night two.”
When Kittle asked for Triple H to “work on that,” Rollins called it a “tough sell” and mentioned having a few years left to make it happen. He also brought up all the technicalities involved here, considering headlining night one is generally considered working the main event of WrestleMania.
That said, as long as you aren’t being willfully bad faith, you can see where he’s coming from. There’s something different about being the final match of the weekend.
The question: do we think Rollins gets to that spot before he calls it a career?
