page_title: Seth Rollins
section_title: Professional wrestling style, persona and reception
hierarchical_section_title: Seth Rollins / Professional wrestling style, persona and reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Seth Rollins performing a Curb Stomp on Big E
context_page_description: Colby Lopez is an American professional wrestler currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Seth Rollins. He is an overall five-time world champion throughout several major wrestling promotions.
  Prior to signing with WWE, Lopez wrestled under the ring name Tyler Black for Ring of Honor and was part of the Age of the Fall stable with Jimmy Jacobs. During his time in ROH he held the ROH World Championship once and the ROH World Tag Team Championship twice with Jacobs, as well as the winner of the 2009 Survival of the Fittest tournament. He also wrestled for various independent promotions including Full Impact Pro, where he was a one-time FIP World Heavyweight Champion, as well as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he was a one-time PWG World Tag Team Champion, also with Jacobs.
  Lopez signed with WWE in 2010 and was sent to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling where he was renamed Seth Rollins and became the inaugural FCW Grand Slam Champion. After WWE rebranded FCW into NXT, he became the inaugural NXT Champion.
context_section_description: Part of his WWE ring name is a tribute to former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins. During his time in FCW, Rollins used a superkick to a kneeling opponent called Avada Kedavra as a finisher. Rollins has known to use his current and most notable finisher, the Curb Stomp (often referred to as simply the Stomp), for most of his career. However, Rollins was prohibited from using the Curb Stomp shortly after his WWE World Heavyweight Championship victory at WrestleMania 31 in March 2015, as WWE chairman Vince McMahon thought it was a "cruel" move for their top champion. However, Rollins resumed use of the move in January 2018. During the interim time, he adopted Triple H's Pedigree as his finishing maneuver to replace the Curb Stomp. In April 2017, he introduced a new finishing move, a jumping knee strike called the Ripcord Knee.
  Throughout his time as a member of The Shield, before the team initially dispersed, his character was that of an "out-spoken hot-head who will do crazy things" to help The Shield. After turning into a villain and aligning himself with AOP in late-2019, Rollins began to dub himself  "Monday Night Messiah" and allude himself to Jesus while debuting a new entrance theme to go along with the new character. He also began recruiting new "disciples" into his group such as Murphy and Austin Theory proclaiming himself to be their leader and savior.
  In mid-2019, Rollins received attention for his social media activities and public comments. In June, Rollins received criticism for his interaction with fellow wrestler Will Ospreay on Twitter, who Rollins referenced as "little guy" and urged to "compare bank accounts" with him; he apologized in early July, calling the tweets "garbage" and "not in line with my values". He later publicly called wrestler Jon Moxley (who had performed in WWE as Dean Ambrose) "presumptuous" for criticizing WWE following his departure from the company, as well as regarding professional wrestling promotion All Elite Wrestling (where Moxley went to compete after his departure from WWE) as the "minor leagues". In November, Rollins publicly refuted a story published by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (WON) that claimed that he spoke during a backstage meeting prior to an episode of Raw. The publication later issued a retraction and an apology to Rollins.
  In the same year, Rollins' character notably drew criticisms from audiences and critics, particularly after he retained the Universal Championship over "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt via referee stoppage at the Hell in a Cell event in October of that year, which was received negatively by the live crowd and also by critics. Sports journalist Dave Meltzer, who is known for assigning star ratings to wrestling matches, rated the match minus 2 stars out of 5, making it among the lowest rated matches Meltzer has reviewed. Meltzer also described it as "perhaps the worst main event in pro wrestling history where the fault doesn't at all lie in either of the competitors". Bleacher Report subsequently stated that the negative reaction was a response against "a character that has become too bland, one-dimensional and unlikable for fans to continue supporting." Following Rollins' villainous character change shortly after his feud with Wyatt, the New York Post hypothesized that "WWE had no choice but to turn Seth Rollins heel", even though it "doesn’t absolve WWE from blame for needing to make the switch". Rollins' match against Wyatt at Hell in a Cell was later recognized as the Worst Match of the Year by readers of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, with their feud also being named Worst Feud of the Year. The Hell in a Cell match was also awarded the Gooker Award by satirical wrestling website WrestleCrap, an annual booby prize dedicated to the worst wrestling moment of the year.
caption: Rollins performing his finishing move the Curb Stomp on Big E in September 2014
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