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– Seth Rollins spoke about his pre-WWE days and a memorable incident with Vince McMahon during his appearance on E & C's Pod Of Awesomeness. Wrestling Inc .:
Joining Ring of Honor in 2007: "I do not know if WWE has ever been interested in me. Yes, I have never heard anything. I contacted them. I contacted them. So, when I first signed up with Ring of Honor, I signed a three year contract. I signed with them and I was really excited to work there. It was a very famous place at the time for some of the best workers in the world and for those I had been watching for five or six years. You look at Daniel Bryan, you look at Nigel McGuinness, Austin Aries, Claudio was there, Chris Hero / Kbadius Ohno was there and they were just the best indie at that time. I was so glad to be there and to try to learn from these guys. "
As a result of contact with the Impact just before the WWE: " Meanwhile, I also get a call from, I mean it was D-Lo [Brown] which was the first type of TNA. He was producing TNA at that time and he knew that my [ROH] contract was imminent. I think he was the first to reach me and wonder if I would be interested in going to TNA. And I said to myself, "Well, yes, I would like to earn more money and progress, so absolutely. He says, "Okay, well, if you do not mind, I'll put you in touch with Terry Taylor, who did all the recruiting and firing in the TNA at the time." And so, Terry I'm calling and basically telling me that he wants to offer me a three year contract to come to the TNA for a lot more money and a lot less dates than what I had to do in Ring of Honor, and a much simpler style, and it was like, "Oh, that looks fantastic, that's great." Note that I have not yet received a response from Johnny Ace. He did not call me, I could not reach him, nothing, I get this contract from the TNA and, basically, I verbally agree with Terry Taylor on the phone, and I say, "Oh, yes, everything "They faxed the contract." Before signing the contract, I call Ring of Honor and let them know what I'd like to do with TNA, at the time Jim Cornette was booking R Oh, I do not know if you have any experience whatsoever with Jimmy Cornette, but he did his whole trip and he lost his mind when I told him I was going to sign with TNA! There is so much explanation in the conversation that followed that I can not even repeat half of it. He was so angry … [Cornette] says, "You know what? Let me just make sure that they are doing you well. Send me this contract, send it to me before signing it and send it back. I'm like, 'Sh-Jim, agree, I'm just trying to make some money, dude. Sorry, you know?
About his contract with WWE: "Then I send him my contract, in the meantime he checks it and I say, you know what? I will call Johnny Ace one last time to let him know that it does not matter. So I call him, I do not answer. I leave him a voice message and I say, "Look, I had this contract with the TNA and if I do not hear from you, I'll probably sign it and end up going." No kidding, ten minutes later, he reminds me. The first time, he reminds me for months. And he goes, "Hi kid, uh, I just got your messages, sorry for being so busy." And he invents all those excuses and stuff like that. Then he says to himself, "Ah, you know what, I have to talk to some people tomorrow, but I'll call you. If you do not mind, I'll probably call you tomorrow at noon if that's okay for you. "And I said to myself," Oh shit. "So I hang him up, Cornette makes me the contract, he changed a few things in. Then in the morning, I try to hand over the new contract to Terry Taylor so he can rewrite it and send it back to me, so that he's doing all this, and now I'm waiting for John Laurinaitis' call for lunch, and Laurinaitis is finally calling me in. Meanwhile, Terry is trying to force me to sign this contract and I'm not selling it basically, like I'm not trying to answer her calls Finally, Laurinaitis reminds me and gives me the old one: "Ah, boy, you know we do not give jobs, we give opportunities, so we have an opportunity If you're interested in it, it's a development contract, there's no guarantee, we'll talk about salary and things like that. "And I'm like, right now, it's I always wanted to be, I did not care – I did not do it if it was a job opportunity, I did not care what it was, I did not care. I'm in it! I'm done.
Vince McMahon gets bawled: "Once at SmackDown, I had this match with Kofi. That was when they were still filming SmackDown, I had this match with Kofi. And it was supposed to be a victory for me. Now, Kofi is a person whom I have a lot of respect and I would never have, even in a match where I am well placed, I would not want to crush Kofi. I just do not want to do it. I would like to give him something and it's just my nature. So we went out and got this – it was literally probably three minutes, beginning to end, bell after bell – three minutes and I give Kofi a little, and give her a nice appearance, then beat her. And I remember coming to the back thinking, oh, okay, it was okay. And Vince was furious about it! Like, furious! Just, 'Come here! & # 39; And he shouted at me, and he just said: "If you're going to be my guy, you're going to be my guy, that's not what I want!" And he chased me out of the gorilla. I did not understand, I did not understand and Michael was trying to explain what Vince wanted to get out of the situation and they eventually forced us, Kofi and me, to go out and do the game again. And I remember the feeling when they told me that. I was so angry and embarrbaded, and just ready to go out and not to do it, because I was like, never in my life! This should never happen to me! In retrospect, it's such a rewarding experience that it's good to mess up from time to time. It's ok to try things and fail and learn from mistakes, and as long as you improve your second time, and you do not make the same mistake twice. , everything will be alright.
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