Although the 2 have by no means locked up within the ring, WWE star Seth Rollins and AEW’s Will Ospreay have beforehand tussled with each other on-line. Forward of his WWE WrestleMania 40 primary occasion, Seth Rollins spoke to The Ringer and touched on, amongst different matters, his verbal battle with Ospreay in 2019. The WWE star defined why he felt the necessity to converse up so aggressively.
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“WWE is my house, proper?” Rollins stated. “I am not speaking simply the expertise; I am speaking about the entire crew, the manufacturing, the artistic — adore it or hate it, we’re the very best. And I have been a proponent of those individuals in my household and had their again for years as a result of I consider that, and I consider within the work all of us put collectively to make this business the very best it presumably will be.”
The back-and-forth started after Rollins responded to a WWE social media submit by stating that WWE had the very best professional wrestling on the planet. Ospreay chimed in by stating, “I am alive.” Whereas this was a comparatively tame trade, Rollins’ tone was just a little extra harsh in his reply to Ospreay, calling him “little man” and stating that Ricochet was a greater model of the NJPW star. The trade would proceed with Rollins asking Ospreay if he’d like to check financial institution accounts.
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Rollins later apologized for his phrases, with Ospreay accepting. The 2 have since teased a Rollins-Ospreay “dream match,” although each stay in several firms. Nonetheless, Rollins has optimistic issues to say in regards to the AEW star regardless of their separate allegiances.
“[Will Ospreay] is completely top-of-the-line performers on the planet,” Rollins acknowledged. “I am completely happy that he’s lastly … attending to the very prime stage in our business.”
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