WWE star Seth Rollins discussed several topics with Men’s Health, including his pick for the greatest of all time in WWE.
Rollins said, “Shawn Michaels. I think he’s generally generally regarded — as you know, his promo wasn’t the — he’s not a Ric Flair or Roddy Piper. But in-ring, I think, [he’s] generally regarded as maybe the greatest of all time? People would argue, some arguments for Eddie Guerrero. Probably Tiger Mask from Japan, Dynamite Kid might float in there a little bit. Kurt Angle, people love as well. But I think Shawn is sort of — he was ahead of the time, and he was a pioneer for guys like me. If you look at what Shawn was doing in the ’90s on at a high level, him and Bret Hart who was another guy that was generally looked at as smaller during the Hogan years. Bret was a technician, but Shawn could do it all. Shawn could brawl, he could fly, he could be a technician, he could do anything you wanted him to. He was a kind of a jack of all trades.”
On Michaels being a blueprint for modern wrestling:
“I think you look at modern wrestling now, and that’s sort of the archetype for what you have to be to be successful. Either you have to be like super-focused and great at one thing, or you have to be a Shawn Michaels and sort of a jack of all trades. And I think he was probably the first guy that I looked at and I said, ‘I’m not going to be a giant. Like, I’m not going to be Hogan.’ Hogan was cool to like, ‘Oh wow, there’s a real-life superhero.’ But Shawn was the first guy that I looked at and was like, ‘Wait, I think I could do that. He can do that and he looks like a star and looks credible and well, I can do that, too.’”
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