Seth Rollins Says Rehab For Shoulder Surgery Has Been ‘Way Worse’ Than Rehab After He Blew His Knee Out

Rollins further speaks about his recovery.

Seth Rollins has been on the shelf since the fall of 2025 after suffering a shoulder injury that he had to undergo surgery for.

Rollins had his rotator cuff operated on. While guest appearing on Men’s Health, Rollins said the recovery for his latest injury has been ‘way worse’ than the recovery was after he blew his knee out.

“When my surgeon got in there, he was pleasantly surprised honestly. Labrum looked good and the bicep tendon was fine, so he just replaced the rotator, and the rehab has been awful. It’s been terrible. I tore my knee — ACL, MCL, meniscus in 2015, and I would say this was way worse. It’s super painful, and I find that the sleeping was extremely difficult because I’m in a brace nonstop for six weeks. So, I have to sleep in this brace, which means you have to sleep upright, and it’s really uncomfortable; you can’t get solid rest. Any sort of small movement wakes you up and triggers you and so, you can’t get into a deep sleep. You can’t get good R.E.M., you can’t get good deep sleep so your recovery’s bad, so your mood is bad, so your stress level is up and then the rehab is just painful. It’s slow and it’s painful. I was doing isometric holds for weeks, just staring at a wall for 30 seconds at a time, pushing into the wall; side, this way, that way, this way, that way, backwards, and I’m like, ‘God, this sucks.’ Once the brace came off after six weeks, had a couple weeks where it was sketchy, and now, I’m at 12 weeks right now — this week coming up — I’m good. Mobility’s good. Just gotta keep it and then work on the strength and like I said, hopefully we’re on track for sometime before April 20th or whenever WrestleMania is.”

Rollins was World Heavyweight Champion at the time of his injury and had to relinquish the title. To get a recount of how the injury occurred, click here.

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