Seth Rollins has been using the same entrance theme since The Shield split up but a recent change to his music has seen "Burn it Down!" added to the opening of that. While that's a phrase adorning his t-shirts at the moment, it still feels like an odd addition but it turns out that it's all because Vince McMahon finally had enough of the theme's few seconds of silence at the start.
"I heard it before the show two or three weeks ago the first time it debuted, yeah. It was a weird thing where I got to RAW that day, [Rollins is told] 'we need to do something with your music.' 'What do you mean? I've been using the same song for like three years. Well, what's the problem?' 'Vince doesn't like that pause.' He has been hearing the same music for three years! What are we talking about? So they played five different entrances and three of them were just soundbytes, like, [imitates artificial sound effects and guitar riff from entrance song]. And one of them said, 'Kingslayer' and it was very seductive almost, like, [whispers 'Kingslayer'], so, like, the 'burn it down' was the best option available, so I was like, 'okay, do it.' But it actually worked out well and last week, they put the fire in my entrance video, so I was like, 'alright, whatever.'"
It doesn't sound like Rollins is overly keen on the change but he doesn't appear to care too much and fans have actually started shouting along with the phrase so it's managed to get over.
On another note, we've known for a while that the Curbstomp was banned by WWE and after explaining that he hated the decision for it to be dropped from his arsenal, Rollins confirmed that it's never coming back and once again laid the blame at the feet of Vince McMahon. He is, after all, the one who makes these decisions and what he says goes when all is said and done.
"No more blonde and The Curbstomp is gone, guys. It's not my fault. Trust me. It's not like I was [saying], 'oh yes, I want a new finisher.' No, they snatched it from me. They took it from me. No, so this is what happened, okay? After WrestleMania, I had won the [WWE] title, and I flew across the country to do the Today Show. For the Today Show, they put together a package of all of Seth Rollins' awesome maneuvers. At the time, my finish was The Curbstomp. So Vince McMahon is sitting wherever Vince McMahon sits on a Monday morning and he's seeing me on the Today Show and I look good in a suit. I'm representing the company. I look good in a suit. And I'm wearing the title and then he sees this package of me stomping another man's head into the ground and it being called The Curbstomp on national television. And he thought to himself, 'well, that's not a good representation of what I want my top guy to do,' so he just had a meeting with some of his people, and they decided, 'well, we don't need it - we can figure out another finish for you' and the rest is history. I get it. I hate it. I think it's silly, but it is what it is and it's not my company. I'm doing the best I can with it."
It's surprising to hear Rollins speak out like this and he almost sounds frustrated with how his character has been handled. However, he is theone half of the RAW Tag Team Champions so things aren't looking too bad right now and neither of these changes are likely to have any sort of lasting impact on his career! What do you guys think of these comments from Rollins?