On Monday night's
RAW, a number of segments had to be changed because certain wrestlers were unable to take bumps. Well, it wasn't just the legends who were pulled as Dave Meltzer has now revealed that Ricochet was stopped from appearing in the skit with The O.C. and D-Generation X.
"Ricochet has an elbow infection so the whole spot that Seth did with AJ Styles, that was all [supposed to be for] Ricochet," he explains.
Apparently the entire thing was meant to give Ricochet a rub after being endorsed by DX. "I do not know that this was a Paul Heyman idea but I do know that Ricochet is one of his projects and I know that one of the ideas on the show is that Ricochet gets the big rub at the end from DX where they endorse him and they say he’s going to be the next big thing."
"That was what that segment was supposed to be. Ricochet was not cleared to do anything so Seth Rollins took his place." That explains why Rollins ended up squaring off with United States Champion AJ Styles and the segment has been widely criticised as The O.C. was shown to be backing down from a number of retired stars.