In a recent appearance on Mythical Kitchen’s “Last Meal” series, WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins explained why he doesn’t watch the highlights of his own matches, even if the bouts have received high praise in the wrestling community.
Rollins said, “You find things, little imperfections in every thing that you do. I’ll go have a match or a segment or a promo and I’ll come back and everybody will have told me all of these great things about it, but I get to a point where I can’t watch my own matches back. I’ll have the match and I’ll go, ah, that felt really good. I had this amazing connection with the audience, I felt like everything went the way I thought it was going to go in my head, maybe better. I’m living on this high of adrenaline, but if I go back and watch it, instead of being able to enjoy it the same way, I’ll just sh*t all over it.”
On a recent edition of the “After the Bell” podcast, WWE SmackDown General Manager Nick Aldis stated that WWE Hall of Famer Sean “X-Pac” Waltman deserved more credit for being “the coolest wrestler” back in the day.
Aldis said, “You know who in my school who was considered the coolest wrestler? X-Pac. Everybody thought X-Pac was so cool, and if you think about it, he was because of the way he talks and his demeanor and everything. I never think that Sean Waltman really gets his flowers as far as how much of an impact he had on wrestling being cool.”
Aldis also praised Bret Hart, noting, “I thought of Bret Hart like he’s cool, and girls like him, and he’s so slick, and he’s the best, and I want to be like that. He was cool. I remember sort of seeing Hogan and understanding that he was a huge star — and I don’t mean this as a slight — but he didn’t seem cool to me. Bret was cool.“
