Seth Rollins speaks on the WWE championship.
Since WrestleMania 38, Roman Reigns has managed to hold onto the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship after he unified both the WWE and Universal Championships by defeating Brock Lesnar in a title vs title match at the Showcase Of The Immortals. Since then, his schedule has seen a big decrease in dates and now, may be on a collision course for a match with The Rock at WrestleMania 40 after Cody Rhodes stepped aside for The Rock on the February 2nd edition of Friday Night SmackDown.
While speaking on the Rich Eisen Show, Rollins explained why he wants to face Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40. Rollins has been making a case to the Royal Rumble winner for a fourth match between the pair, this time with the World Heavyweight Championship on the line.
"I said, Cody Rhodes, come take a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship. I understand Cody Rhodes, one of the top performers in WWE, WWE. He's got to finish the story. He's got the story in mind. He wants the WWE championship. It's a title that his father, the late great American Dream Dusty Rhodes, has never won. Almost won it, had it ripped away. He never won it. He wants to fulfill that destiny. I understand that, but that title don't mean what it once did. Roman Reigns has ruined that title. This is the championship in WWE right here. This is the most prestigious title in our entire industry. I've put in the work over the past year to make it that way. And I want to test myself against the best at WrestleMania and the best is the winner of the Royal Rumble now two years in a row, Cody Rhodes. That's what I want."
When asked to explain why Reigns has ruined the WWE championship, 'The Visionary' pointed to Reigns' schedule.
"Well, look, Roman Reigns... working on his own schedule all, and in his mind, he thinks that makes the title bigger and maybe at a time, that was the truth. But the problem is, Roman Reigns isn't present, which means his title isn't present, which means you don't have a crack at it, which means there's a glass ceiling, which means this the title that he holds isn't gonna be in every town, in every city. It's not there. It's the Hollywood title it's as close to a prop, as you can call it and I don't want to demean it, because I've been the World Heavyweight champion, that WWE champion and when I was, I took it everywhere. I defended it all over the place. I made sure that it was present. I made sure that it was on Raw. It was on SmackDown. I made sure that other people had an opportunity at that title. He has kind of demeaned the title so much that it just don't mean what this one means, man. I built this one up from nothing, from scratch. This didn't exist a year ago. Didn't exist a year ago, and now I'm walking into WrestleMania, biggest champion in the biz."
Rhodes has yet to officially make his decision for WrestleMania at this juncture, but The Rock and Roman Reigns are expected to face off at the WrestleMania 40 Kickoff Press Conference later today in Las Vegas.
In a seperate interview, Rollins would discuss the recent lawsuit brought against Vince McMahon by Janel Grant. You can read more here.
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