This year's RAW after WrestleMania was an unmitigated disaster and much of the blame for that has been laid at Vince McMahon's feet. After the widely derided show, the WWE Chairman thankfully decided to take a backseat in terms of WWE Creative, but it was a particularly bad night for Seth Rollins.
Showing up to celebrate his victory over Logan Paul, Rollins came out to the ring and gave fans the opportunity to sing his son. However, after coming back from the break, The Visionary was awkwardly still standing there with a confused crowd watching on, and the segment ended without him saying anything.
Footage of a visibly angry Rollins later emerged and many wondered if Vince had decided to cut his promo from the chaotic show.
During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated's Jimmy Traina (via Fightful), the WWE World Heavyweight Champion shared some clarification about what really happened.
"I was upset, but it was mostly production, a miscommunication," Rollins explained. "That was the night after Mania, and the intent of the segment was to go to break with the audience singing my song, allow them to sing during the break, come back up, they might still be singing, and then drift off into nothingness."
"For whatever reason, that never made it through to production, so when we go to commercial, instead of letting the crowd party, they did the thing where they black the house, shut down the music, and play the stupid video packages, which messed up what the whole plan was. The crowd was trying to sing, but you have Stone Cold Steve Austin talking about Broken Skull Ranch. 'Did no one get the memo?' It was just a production snafu."
"In the middle of the commercial break, I'm yelling to try to get it turned off so they could keep singing, but it was already a disaster," he continued. "The crowd was confused and didn't know what to make of it."
"We came back and did the rest of the segment, but it didn't translate the way you wanted because the crowd wasn't able to participate the way the segment was meant to be planned. I wasn't really upset about that, it was just a bad handling."
So, for once, it wasn't Vince's fault!
His involvement with the show was described as being disastrous for WWE Superstar morale at the time, but in this instance, a lack of communication with the production truck is clearly what upset Rollins.