Seth Rollins Addresses Off-Air Clip From WWE Raw After WrestleMania 39

– You might recall at the Monday Night Raw the night after WrestleMania 39, a clip surfaced on social media, showing Seth Rollins talking to production staffers while he was in the ring during a commercial break for his segment. Rollins himself finally addressed what took place off-air during a recent interview with Jimmy Traina for the SI Media Podcast. According to Rollins, it was a result of a miscommunication. Below are some highlights (via Fightful):

Seth Rollins on why he was upset during his segment: “That was not a big deal. I was upset, but it was mostly production, a miscommunication. 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, shutdown the music, and play the stupid video packages, which messed up what the whole plan was.”

On what went wrong: “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. 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.”

At this weekend’s WWE SummerSlam, Rollins is defending his World Heavyweight Championship against Finn Balor. You can see the clip in question from the post-WrestleMania 39 edition of Raw below:

Nothing confirmed but Seth Rollins’ segment may have been changed when he was in the ring. https://t.co/AaSEf5AjO4

— Wrestling News (@WrestlingNewsCo) April 4, 2023