WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins is looking on the bright side as his recent injury could’ve been much, much worse.
During the main event of last week’s Raw, Rollins retained against Jinder Mahal. The match had a big-fight feel, thanks in part to Tony Khan’s outburst about the booking of Mahal. Due to an injury, Mahal was seen limping and had to be helped to the back after the match. It was later confirmed that Rollins suffered a torn MCL and a meniscus injury.
Seth Rollins Dodged A Bullet
On this week’s Raw, Rollins confirmed reports about his injury but valiantly vowed that he would defend the World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 40. Speaking to ESPN MMA with Daniel Cormier, Rollins addressed his gratitude given that his situation could’ve been much worse.
“Dodged a bullet, the ACL is intact, the MCL will heal with time, I’m hoping to be back at full strength in around a month, [that’s] my kinda timeline. We’re gonna take it day-to-day, I’d like to be back in a month, I don’t wanna walk into WrestleMania & that be my first match in 2/3 months, that’s not gonna be good for me.
“I want be able to get back in there, test the wheels & make sure we’re in a good place so we’ll see how it goes. I’m happy we dodged a bullet & wasn’t anything too serious that was gonna put me on the shelf for 6-9 months.”
On this week’s Raw, WWE Intercontinental Champion GUNTHER confronted Rollins and expressed his genuine respect for the World Heavyweight Champion. The dominant Austrian also vowed to win this weekend’s Men’s Royal Rumble match and challenge Rollins at WrestleMania 40.
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