WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins spoke about a wide range of topics while doing an interview with GQ including the possibility of a physical WWE Hall of Fame.
You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
GQ: Your onscreen wardrobe shifted dramatically about two years ago, when you added the “Freakin” to your name and started wearing insanely loud suits. How did that whole transformation come about?
“Well, I had just come off paternity leave, and the character I’d been portraying before I had my child—this kind of cult-leader-esque, religious-zealot-type person—that guy was gone. I needed a new angle, something that was going to be more approachable. I looked around and we were in the ThunderDome [WWE’s bio-secure bubble during the pandemic] and there were no fans. Everything was kind of drab and quiet and soft, and I just wanted to have fun. I wanted to do something different and shake it up.
It’s very much a throwback to the era that I grew up watching wrestling, which is the late ’80s. You’ve got your Macho Mans and your Ric Flairs and guys like that who are loud and brash—or even your Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels. Their costumes were bigger and louder and crazier, and I just didn’t see that going on anymore. So [my new] character, it started with some suits and sort of just snowballed from there. The end game was always to get to where we’re at now. But I wanted to get there slow, and luckily my stylist was on board with that, so it’s been a fun transformation.”
What does Becky think of all the stuff you’ve been wearing?
“Well, I won’t lie: She’s a little jealous. When she was in her Big Time Becks era, she was rocking some wild fits too. But now that she’s back to being [her in-ring persona] The Man, she’s a little more subdued. She has a lot more fun in real life: She’s got a crazy shoe collection, and she loves dressing like a crazy person.”
I read that you’ve also sent some of your outfits to the WWE archives.
“Yeah, yeah. The stuff I can’t give to Goodwill, if I don’t know where to get rid of it, I send it to the archives. Just because, you never know. I think at some point in the future there’s a market for a physical WWE Hall of Fame, and I’m lobbying for my own wing.”
