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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Jan 19, 2024 0:36:59 GMT -5
If he can't work, just give Night 1 to Becky/Rhea.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jan 19, 2024 1:53:14 GMT -5
The radio silence makes me believe that it's pretty bad. If I were WWE I'd make the Elimination Chamber just straight up for the vacated title.
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Post by asuka007 on Jan 19, 2024 2:06:48 GMT -5
Pull an HBK in 1998 and just don’t have him wrestle until Mania.
And if he cannot go, let Becky vs. Rhea main event Night One then.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 19, 2024 2:39:31 GMT -5
Seth Rollins has been pulled from this weekend’s WWE live events.
Randy Orton has replaced Rollins in local advertisements. As previously stated by Wade Keller of PWTorch.com, company officials who are aware of Rollins’ injury situation have declined to comment. The company also has not released an official statement regarding the severity of the injury.
Rollins was seen limping around on his leg, which hopefully indicates that the injury is not severe. The decision to remove him from this weekend’s live events makes sense, even if it’s a minor injury that doesn’t indicate anything worse.
As PWMania.com previously reported, Rollins was injured during the World Heavyweight Championship main event on Monday Night RAW. He was favoring his leg in the final minutes of his match with Jinder Mahal, and trainers escorted him to the back after the show.
Best wishes to him for a speedy recovery. Hopefully, nothing will keep him out for long. -PWMania
*kicks at the wall* Fffff.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 19, 2024 2:42:44 GMT -5
Them not commenting and reassuring people he's fine to me is a giant red flag. I don't know who needs to hear this who reports these stories but I watched Carson Wentz like jog to the locker room after tearing his ACL on the previous play... just because he was putting weight on it doesn't mean anything.
I obviously am hoping he's ok but you'd think WWE would be ready and willing to say Seth was ok, like immediately, to calm any tension down
It sure sounds like the diagnosis isn't good and they're holding out hope that maybe it will be or they can get a second opinion with the way they're going about this.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jan 19, 2024 4:20:42 GMT -5
The continued silence on it has me feeling like it's probably serious. Usually by now it feels like we probably would've heard a, "Yeah, he's fine," but it's been very quiet. If it is a problem, I'd probably just have Balor / Priest for the belt in a semi-main and go with Rhea / Becky closing night one. Punk could face Drew or something. When was the last time there was this much silence on an injury? I think Charlotte, and that didn't exactly end well.
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Post by yokohamacpfc on Jan 19, 2024 4:25:05 GMT -5
No need for him to vacate unless he is seriously hurt (needs crutches or such like). He can go to the ring to cut a promo, Punk ambushes him with a GTS, and Priest cashes in. At Mania it's a triple threat of Priest/Punk/Seth or Drew, Sami or Finn standing in for Seth if he can't get cleared in time. I agree that Rhea v Becky should go on last if this is the case and "main event is the match that goes on last" can be another statement from Pespi Phil's past that he memory holes.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Jan 19, 2024 4:27:50 GMT -5
Just have Seth drop the title in a quick squash match against Oba Femi.
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Post by Ryushinku on Jan 19, 2024 6:22:16 GMT -5
There's about 11 weeks still to go to WrestleMania, an easy out if needed in the form of the Damien's MitB, and the 30 day defend your title (unfortunately) doesn't mean a damn thing anymore.
Most of Roman's title run has been a blueprint on how to string things out.
Unless it's something really serious, I'd think they can keep their powder dry on this one.
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Post by thechase on Jan 19, 2024 6:25:56 GMT -5
There's about 11 weeks still to go to WrestleMania, an easy out if needed in the form of the Damien's MitB, and the 30 day defend your title (unfortunately) doesn't mean a damn thing anymore. Most of Roman's title run has been a blueprint on how to string things out. Yeah, if I recall, Roman did suffer an injury wrestling Brock in the unification match at 'Mania, popped it back in on the spot, and was allowed to rest up with the titles afterwards.
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Post by thechase on Jan 19, 2024 8:59:46 GMT -5
Seth's been pulled from RAW
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Post by Fade on Jan 19, 2024 10:38:00 GMT -5
There's about 11 weeks still to go to WrestleMania, an easy out if needed in the form of the Damien's MitB, and the 30 day defend your title (unfortunately) doesn't mean a damn thing anymore. Most of Roman's title run has been a blueprint on how to string things out. Yeah, if I recall, Roman did suffer an injury wrestling Brock in the unification match at 'Mania, popped it back in on the spot, and was allowed to rest up with the titles afterwards. He got hurt during match with Jey too.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 19, 2024 10:38:38 GMT -5
Tidbits I've seen this morning-- he's now not advertised for an event til Feb 12th. Also Meltzer was quoted as saying Seth vs Punk IS the Wrestlemania plan, but if no one's sources are talking, that might not mean much and I'm just clinging to whatever I can right now.
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Post by Fade on Jan 19, 2024 11:27:56 GMT -5
“Ya don’t know what ya got till it’s gone”. People been clamoring for this man to lose the title. Been calling it butt-booty cheeks. Ya can have qualms about his feuds but the match delivery has been good to great, and his star power is felt when the possibility of him being a no-go is a real possibility. There’s a reason they’ve kept the title on him.
Anyway, I ain’t freaking out about it. I think he’ll be fine, prbly make it. Fingers crossed. But honestly, worst case scenario is that he’s out…well, that man needs the rest and repair. Just like MJF. He’s been going too ham. Just like MJF.
Best wishes to that crazy dressing clown.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jan 19, 2024 11:33:12 GMT -5
If he's been pulled from RAW and dates until 2/12, that honestly might be good news? Pull him off the road, let him rest and rehab, send in a promo from home and maybe he'd be good for Mania? I feel like if it was *bad* we'd know that by now and if it was *good* we'd know that too. This seems like we're in limbo now.
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Post by Perd on Jan 19, 2024 11:54:15 GMT -5
This is all making me think of the build to Seth vs. Triple H. Where Seth had to sell the knee injury. Which was basically Seth walking around like he had a duke in his pants.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Jan 19, 2024 13:20:37 GMT -5
The back stuff was obviously exaggerated to a degree for kayfabe but I think there was some truth in those promos and now this. I was already 80% sure he was dropping the title at Mania but if he makes it there it has to be like 98% now. Even if it's nothing too serious keep him to promos for the next month, drop the title at Mania then take a hiatus to heal up.
Am I forgetting some injury/time-off since then or has he been on a full-time schedule with no breaks since 2016 when he returned from the torn ACL? 8 years nonstop is crazy. It feels like every other top guy has missed time since then except him.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 19, 2024 13:37:44 GMT -5
Them not commenting and reassuring people he's fine to me is a giant red flag. I don't know who needs to hear this who reports these stories but I watched Carson Wentz like jog to the locker room after tearing his ACL on the previous play... just because he was putting weight on it doesn't mean anything. I obviously am hoping he's ok but you'd think WWE would be ready and willing to say Seth was ok, like immediately, to calm any tension down It sure sounds like the diagnosis isn't good and they're holding out hope that maybe it will be or they can get a second opinion with the way they're going about this. Given the mechanism of the injury (landing on his knee off the springboard moonsault) and the way he continued fighting with no noticeable instability I’d be very surprised if it was a torn ACL.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 19, 2024 13:44:13 GMT -5
The back stuff was obviously exaggerated to a degree for kayfabe but I think there was some truth in those promos and now this. I was already 80% sure he was dropping the title at Mania but if he makes it there it has to be like 98% now. Even if it's nothing too serious keep him to promos for the next month, drop the title at Mania then take a hiatus to heal up. Am I forgetting some injury/time-off since then or has he been on a full-time schedule with no breaks since 2016 when he returned from the torn ACL? 8 years nonstop is crazy. It feels like every other top guy has missed time since then except him. The only other time I can think of him being injured since then was the couple of months before the Mania match with Triple H in early 2017. Otherwise I think he’s been pretty much full time since then.
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Post by clc on Jan 19, 2024 14:08:44 GMT -5
I hope Seth gets healed fast.
I also think they should use the unfortunate situation to help Jinder. Jinder should be out there bragging that he took out Seth and demanding Pearce make him the champion. That can give you weeks of material while we wait for Seth to come back and beat up Jinder. When Charlotte got hurt instead of using it to make Asuka look tough, they decide it was a better story to show the replay of how puny Asuka still needed to cheat to a roll-up win over an injured Charlotte. That's taking a lemon, and deciding you'd rather just have the lemon instead of lemonade. In situations where the injury is an accident, and its not career threatening, I think it's fine to use it to make the best out a bad situation.
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