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– As mentioned earlier, podcasts Edge and Christian recently interviewed WWE superstar Seth Rollins, who discussed the formation and dissolution of The Shield. Below, some highlights of the podcast interview, where Rollins discusses The Shield (transcription via WrestlingInc.com).
Rollins describes the original plans of his WWE debut: "What I think has happened, it's a little fuzzy. for me because it was behind the scenes, weird stuff was going on, Punk was trying to turn around. He saw the main list, he saw that there were hungry guys in NXT who somehow came in the same way, and he also found that there was a lot of complacency on the main list at the time with a lot of guys. Especially some of the younger guys were just there, just happy to be there. Do not try to improve every week, or try to tell stories, not to push the envelope for themselves and for the company, and this was starting to do wrong with the product. So he wanted us to get in, ourselves and Ambrose, and I think, maybe, Kbadius Ohno / Chris Hero, but I'm not sure. But the company loved Roman from the start and for all the right reasons. Whatever happened in these conversations, I do not know. Punk and Paul Heyman pleaded for a security force to come and help him. He was in the middle of a program with Ryback and Ryback was this drummer of the world, and he was obviously trying to find ways to extend this program with Ryback, and one of them was up. to have guys who could take some bumps for him, talk about it. for him a little. So he launched this security force idea, and myself and Ambrose, and I think Hero, and one way or another, was thrown on Roman. "
" We were supposed to debut at Hell In A Cell, as a month before the Survivor series. We were all excited about the PPV, we did not really know what was going on, no one really talked to us and we were there, and we were ready to do something, but we did not know what was going to happen or anything either of the kind. . And then no one approached us all day and nothing happened, and I think it was like Brad Maddox – the thing with Brad Maddox, where he was a bad referee, a heel referee or something like it happened at the PPV. And I remember we were all like, "Why the hell, why are we here? What is going on? And then, on the following Monday or Tuesday, we're back in Tampa doing our practice role at the training center on a Tuesday afternoon, as if we were depressed. I thought it was going to be that!
Rollins The First Night for The Shield on WWE TV: "And then, again, this was evoked at the time of Survivor Series. A little bit the same thing happened where we go to the PPV, and no one talks to us, and nobody talks to us, and no one talks to us, and finally, Michael Hayes is like, "Anyone talking to you? " We say to ourselves: & # 39; & # 39; No! & # 39; & # 39; Well, sh-, come here then! & # 39; And finally, we had the conversation and they explained to us what was going on. They gave us these swat pants and stupid turtlenecks. I do not know why the turtlenecks, but that's what they gave us. And they gave us these shields, we had, like, riot shields and batons that we were going to use. And at the beginning, "What are we going to, how are we going to enter the ring with these giant shields? I do not understand. & # 39; And then finally we went out to do this rehearsal and Vince [McMahon] who always helped with rehearsals at the time, he was near the ring and he saw us go out with these shields and sticks, and he's like, 'Ugh, what the hell are they ?! What are you going to do with that? And we say to ourselves, "Yeah! What are we going to do with that? "And we just threw away the shields. And [Vince] is: "Do you need sticks to hit a man? You can not hit a man with your fists? What kind of man are you then, huh? & # 39; … And so, we simply go out in turtleneck swat and swat pants, and we went out and we defeated Ryback's living shunt that night. "
Rollins explains how The Shield would stay in the same hotel room: " We were, from day one, early, before making money, we were staying in the same hotel room. We were just going to get all the parts together and a minivan. We only received one room a night. We all had beds and one of us slept on the floor. We did this for, maybe almost the first year. We were like, "We do not know, we will save all our money." And we did everything together, traveled together, ate together, trained together, worked together, protected each other at the right time, when we We had to go backstage, in the ring, whatever, and as you said, we were all on the same page, all of our goals were to be the best, we wanted to change everything, for example we wanted to change the level of intensity, raise everyone with us and we did not really give a d – n who if any one could not follow what we wanted to do, bad, we would go to do it and they were going to fall, and we were going to find someone else who wanted to follow.It was just one of those things where, yes, we had the opportunities, they were offered to us but we dropped them from the park each time. "
Rollins on the The Shield's initial dissolution planned for a much earlier one: "[The break up] was not our idea and we were not ready for that. We [The Shield] had not had a babyface race at the time, we had just done the heel work and we had finished this program with Punk, where it was like Punk against The Shield. And I remember we did this three-game against a handicap at TLC in December and we lost it, I think, in the match, and they were ready to separate at that time. Like in the next month. I remember that was the plan, we were going to break up and Ambrose was going to turn, and it was going to be, almost, thrown away. I remember we went to see Hunter, or Vince, or someone else. We talked to someone who makes decisions and we said, "We can not do that, we are not ready for that now. This is not the right time and we have so much more to offer. This is not the right moment! We have to get by a bit. From there, we embarked on an infant race. We worked with the Wyatt family in February. So we played at The Rumble and, whatever, then at The Wyatt Family in February, they snuck in because they thought they were going to separate us. So, there was never a plan to work with the Wyatts, that would never happen. And they say to themselves, "Well, I do not know if we're going to separate them, we should organize this game." And the electricity of the two factions, so beautifully built in the last years years, come together to go to war was – electricity for this was crazy. We had a hell of a team game with six players and we had a few after that, but the first at Elimination Chamber was not in the charts. "
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