Seth Rollins

[Grimmas]

Discuss here.

[2PhoneShawty]

If you asked most people from the less analytic boards, like Squared Circle or Wrestling Forum, they'd probably rank him as the best worker today, but I don't know if he's even that, for a while he was not very good on the indies. He felt like one of those guys, who saw what early ROH guys were doing, and tried to emulate it, but rather than wrestling like guys like Danielson or Joe, he instead was just throwing out big moves without much thought or reason. His WWE run has been better, mostly 2012-2014. His work this year however hasn't been as good. He's surely not a top 100 guy for me, and I could see others agreeing with it.

[Grimmas]

He may be a top 100 guy for 2013/14 but all-time? No way.

[BillThompson]

Not a chance. On the indies there was nothing impressive about him, and outside of his great tag work with the Shield his WWE run has been disappointing as well.

[shoe]

No way. I'd be insulted if he made a ballot.

[GOTNW]

Overrated indy run, overrated WWE run. Two years of being a good TV worker shouldn't get you anywhere near a list like this.

[JazeUSA]

no thanks, Ill pass on Tyler Black

[Parties]

While he has zero business being nominated, I do feel like he's actually had a very good year in ring. The Rumble 3-way, his work with Orton and Cena, and I'm actually interested to see what he can do with Sting. Again, no one should vote for him. But I think he sometimes gets a bad rap on this board and elsewhere as being some easily flung ballerina, yet I find myself liking his performances more often than not. And while doing Phoenix Splashes aren't the best way to get booed, I do enjoy his rat-faced character. Whiny pretty boy heel still counts as a heel. Summerslam in particular was a ton of fun as a rudo in white.

[W2BTD]

Rollins was better in ROH than he is getting credit for here, and he's been way better this year than he gets credit for, but he's not a guy I would vote for in a project like this. I suspect he'll be a lock in a few years. The Rumble three way and the Cena Summer Slam match are two of the best WWE matches this year.

 

If you're down on Rollins, you have to cut him a break, it was hard work carrying Roman for almost two years. The guy weighs nearly 300 lbs.

[El McKell]

I voted for him last time around, I think that may have been a mistake. His ROH run is very good though, I think him and Jimmy Jacobs make for a great tag team that cover for eachothers shortcomings well. The Shield are great and he was the best one of them during that run. He'd make a top 200 for me comfortably.
 

[Tetsujin]

Keep in mind I've always been a higher guy on Rollins than a lot of people in these kind of IWCs.

Rollins is frustrating to me because I believe we are never going to see his peak. When he had the athleticism he didn't got the right character work, and now that he has a character that people get behind of (although a very bad one, to me) he's slowly falling apart because of injuries and being fifteen-ten years older. I look at 2012-15 Rollins and I see a great promising wrestler. He's still good, just not what he could have been. I believe the WWE style doesn't do him any favours either, as he would have been awesome in 2010s New Japan for example.

He feels fake, character wise. Doesn't have the personality and aura of Moxley, tribal chief Reigns or other guys of his generation that found themselves as wrestlers. He's always going from gimmick to gimmick, wrestling the same although worse because of injuries, and while he has some great matches from time to time... I don't think that's enough in a top 100 wrestlers ever project, when there's a huge lot of competition. Right now he's my lowest of the Shield guys, and the only one I'm not having in mind for my list.

[DMJ]

I've reviewed close to 100 Seth Rollins matches on my blog and his average match rating is very high, which is almost silly because its a subjective rating scale and I'm definitely not a Seth Rollins fan. Like Triple H, though, its kind of undeniable that he's very good at delivering WWE-style "big match" matches. I can hate Seth Rollins and think he's total dogshit as a worker but then I look at the resume - the Shield six-mans, the 2015 3-way with Cena and Lesnar, the WrestleMania 3-way with Punk and Roman, the Mania tag match with Cody against Roman and Rock, Hell in a Cell against Cody in 2023, Money in the Bank 2016 against Roman, any number of multi-mans like Chambers and Survivor Series matches that he was in - and I think leaving him off my list is a bit like leaving Hogan or Undertaker off my list. While the GWE is ultimately a glorified list of everyone's favorites, if the spirit is to at least attempt to be objective and take into account more than just "Do I like him?", Seth Rollins is pretty undeniable if you're a voter like me whose wheelhouse is mainstream US wrestling of the past 35 years. 

Rollins is going to be someone I begrudgingly have on my list because, as much as I theoretically enjoy watching, say, Mikey Whipwreck more than Rollins (or Triple H for that matter), Rollins' resume is just too good for me to leave him off my list.