While Seth Rollins and Dolph Ziggler were putting on a pretty solid 30-minute Ironman match at WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view (PPV) earlier this month, the talk on social media was all about the crowd in attendance’s actions.
Throughout the match the crowd kept counting down as the clock on the big screen continued to tick down from 30 minutes. The incident threw both Rollins and Ziggler off a bit. Eventually someone in the production truck took the clock off the screen, but that just drove the crowd even more nuts, and the counting became more frequent.
Seth Rollins was the latest guest on former WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia’s podcast, Chasing Glory, and discussed the topic. “The Architect” seemed a bit irked by the crowd’s game, and admitted it really messed with Dolph Ziggler during the bout:
“Sometimes I don’t understand the concept of coming to a show and doing anything other than watch the show. I can’t imagine it,” Rollins said. “It is what it is. They know it’s a thirty minute match; they’re just going to get it out of their system.
“And then, somebody actually took the clock off the tron. And that was bad. It was like you were taking a toy away from a petulant child, and they’re just going to be a jerk to you about it. I know it really messed with Dolph [Ziggler].
“Like, he was super out of sync from how he normally is. I just let them do their thing. I knew we had thirty minutes, and by the end of it they’d be invested in what we were doing — and I think they were.”
Rollins also stated his interest in challenging Dolph Ziggler for the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam next month.
Listen to Seth Rollins on Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia:
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