Seth Rollins Shares The Origins Of His “Outlandish Crap” Wardrobe
In a recent appearance on the “SHAK Wrestling” podcast ahead of SummerSlam 2023, Seth Rollins, the World Heavyweight Champion, spoke with Shakiel Mahjouri to discuss a variety of topics, including stepping out of his comfort zone and embracing the character evolution he has undergone in recent years, as you can check out here.
Rollins also went on to discuss the outlandish wardrobe choices that he has incorporated into his character over the past couple of years, discussing its origins and how it suddenly started to take off. He said,
“Truth be told, you know, the wardrobe and the character really had its beginnings during the pandemic. So, it would have been like, early 2021, really, when it was kind of taking its first baby steps so I didn’t have the same trepidation that I would if I was in front of an entire audience. It was just the television audience and then the computer screens at the ThunderDome, so there really wasn’t as much, like I said, as much trepidation as there might be when I fully stepped out. But when I really started to notice that what I was doing was hitting was really during my rivalry with Edge because people really started to take notice of the colorful outfits. They started to make fun of them. They started to have fun with them. I wore an all silver, bright, aluminum foil looking suit on television one time and I got baked potato chants. If you can get baked potato chants based on what you’re wearing, I think you’re onto something. It took a while to kind of grasp it and hone it and figure it out, but yeah, it started to catch on. People started to wonder what kind of outlandish crap I was going to wear the next week and it caught fire.”
Seth “Freakin’” Rollins will defend the World Heavyweight Championship against fabled rival Finn Balor on Saturday, August 5, at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
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