Seth Rollins: I Screwed Up My Meniscus A Little Bit Before My Match Against Logan Paul At WWE WrestleMania 39

Rollins suffered a micro tear going into the match.

There’s an extensive interview with Seth Rollins that was conducted by Men’s Health. As they were discussing how Rollins’ training regimen has changed as he ages, he recalled when he suffered a micro tear in his meniscus going into his match against Logan Paul at WWE WrestleMania 39. He had to get a shot to push through.

“You’re only gonna be young once. You’re only gonna have that period of time, one time, and so, I always feel like I’m so happy that I just put everything I had into my training during that period of time. I loved it. In your 20s and you’re younger, you can do it. You just recover faster, you can train harder. I used to wrestle five days a week. I would train five to six days a week. CrossFit workouts, and I’m not talking just, you know, one hour. I mean, there’d be two-hour sessions where I’m doing only lifts and a couple of wads and really intense and I just loved it, and I was sore all the time and I just didn’t care, and I loved it and I was in great shape and it was fantastic, and then, I hit 35, I stopped recovering… What happened was my training was starting to push into my performance in the ring and my availability because I felt like I was starting to, ‘Oh, that’s bothering my knee. Why am I doing that?’ I’m doing it just because it’s the thing that I’ve always done… WrestleMania 39 I wanna say, it was right before that. I’m going into a match in L.A. against Logan Paul. I don’t even remember what I did but, I felt that I screwed up my meniscus a little bit. Maybe a little micro tear in the meniscus and I could feel it and I’m like, ‘What am I doing?’ So I’m having to get a shot in my knee just to get through and I’m like, but why? But why am I doing that?”

The following year after WrestleMania 40, Rollins underwent knee surgery. He had a torn MCL and meniscus.

If the quote in this article is used, please credit Men’s Health with an H/T to Fightful for the transcription.