During Monday's episode of
RAW, it became clear that WWE's plan is to turn Seth Rollins heel. Now, though, more details have been revealed and it sounds like things will be heading in a very unique direction for the former Universal Champion moving forward based on comments from Bryan Alvarez on Wrestling Observer Live.
"Apparently, Seth Rollins has some wacky idea for his character, which I guess is that everybody hates him now but he’s right and therefore, in the mind of Seth Rollins, he’s a babyface even though everybody else thinks he’s a heel. So as a heel, he’s gonna wrestle as a babyface."
That's what Bret Hart did in 1997 when the fans turned on him but he still considered himself a good guy. It's an approach which has a lot of potential and Alvarez notes that, "The Seth Rollins character thinks that you the fans are being unfair to WWE. So, he’s gonna wrestle like a babyface while burying you."
However, despite all of this, it's said that turning Rollins heel hasn't been the plan all along and that means his comments in interviews and on social media probably weren't part of the plan (those have definitely played a role in why fans have turned on him).
"All of this stuff that Seth has been doing where he’s been booed out of the building – up until yesterday, the idea was never that he was turning heel. It was his idea to turn heel. In his mind, he may have been planting seeds but he was supposed to have been a babyface all the way up until yesterday [and then] boom he turned."
How do you guys feel about Rollins' heel turn?