Seth Rollins Has No Guilt Over Faking His Knee Injury, Says Less Than 10 People Knew

Seth Rollins says he doesn’t feel bad about his faking an injury to set up his suprtise Money in the Bank cash-in at SummerSlam. Rollins of course faked a knee injury during his match at July’s Saturday Night’s Main Event and leading up to SummerSlam, which allowed him to pull off what WWE called “the Ruse of the Century” when he cashed in on CM Punk to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Rollins spoke about the matter on the SI Media Podcast with Jimmy Traina and you can see some highlights below (per Fightful):

On how many people knew the truth: “You can probably count on two hands.”

On whose idea it was: “I’m not exactly sure where it was hatched. It was presented to me in advance, quite some time, which in our business is a few weeks. I thought the idea was brilliant when I first heard it. Obviously, the execution was going to be important, and the details were going to need to be ironed out. I felt the crux of the idea was brilliant. I was the guy to be able to pull that off. I was very excited at the prospect of it. My level of commitment to our industry is second to none. I was the guy for the job.”

On if it was hard for him to pull off: “I’m a professional, so I feel like I can do anything. All you need in our industry is a little shred of doubt, just a tiny bit of mystery and you get the magic. I thought as soon as Saturday Night’s Main Event went off the air, you saw everybody asking questions, ‘Oh, we’re in. It’s over.’ I don’t think it was too difficult. I think people are maybe smarter than they are sometimes.”

On if he has any guilt about the matter: “I didn’t feel guilty. I let my wife [Becky Lynch] take all the guilt. She has the Irish guilt anyway. She steps on an ant and feels like she’s going to hell. If someone did this to me, I wouldn’t feel bad in the slightest. I would totally get it. Even my closest friends. Maybe John Cena. John reached out and I had to do my best to wiggle around it. John and I are cut from the same cloth, so when John saw the final outcome, he was very happy and proud.”