Interview: Seth Rollins on WWE’s Storytelling, IC Title’s Status, Brock Lesnar

San Diego radio station Rock 105.3 held a recent interview with Seth Rollins and some of the topics discussed included if WWE’s over-reliance on part-timers is hurting their storytelling ability, the Intercontinental Championship being the real top belt of WWE RAW, and Brock Lesnar.

On the topic of if WWE’s over-reliance on part-timers is hurting their storytelling ability, Rollins stated he believes it is since someone like Brock Lesnar and his routine absence as RAW’s Universal champion hurts more than it helps.

“I understand it, I understand Brock Lesnar. Lesnar’s our Universal Champion and he hasn’t been on Monday Night RAW in some time. From my perspective, as a person who’s on every show, every week, I’m out on the live events trying to bring people in to see these shows, it’s slightly insulting to me that he’s our champion and he’s the face of our show, and he’s not at our live events. So people who watch the television shows, now they’re not getting the same thing when they come to the live events. So it makes it hard for us, as a team, to sell tickets”

On the topic of the Intercontinental Championship being the real top belt of RAW, Rollins stated he believes it has become the top championship of RAW due to his desire to be the best champion for the brand and the current top champion rarely being around.

“I would agree with that, yes. I think the champion makes the championship. So what I do is, every week I try to be the champion that the show needs since the one we’ve got isn’t around to be that champion. So yes, the Intercontinental Championship is the championship of RAW and has been for the last year because that’s about how long Lesnar has been Universal Champion, off and on.”

On the topic of working with Brock Lesnar and his hard hitting style, Rollins stated he does not believe it is harder to work with Lesnar due to his stiffer style.

“I don’t think so. Say what you will about him but he’s an incredible performer, an incredible athlete. This guy’s a legitimate badass, a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He could rip all your limbs off your body. He was an Olympic hopeful, a NCAA champion in wrestling. He’s a legit dude. Being in the ring with him is definitely a challenge but he’s one of the best, he’s really good at what he does. There’s a reason he’s the Universal Champion. He’s very good at what he does. He has earned the right to be Brock Lesnar and do what he does, and operate on his own schedule. He’s been doing this for quite some time. I like being in the ring with him. That level of physicality, it kind of brings out the best in me as well.”