Seth Rollins Talks About The Shield's Music, Taker's Streak Ending, WWE's PG Product, Warrior

- Seth Rollins recently spoke with Brett Buchanan of the Alternative Nation website. Here are some highlights:

So when The Shield debuted did you get to talk to Jim Johnson [WWE's head of music] at all about the theme song, and could you imagine any other theme song working for The Shield?

We didn't, when we were worried about the music. Because music to me is super important, it's always been a big deal. I love music, I was always a stickler for wanting real music, like a real song. But when I heard Jim was going to our song, I was pretty excited because he's got a good track record for entrance themes. I remember when we recorded the voice portion of it, that's us actually doing the Sierra Hotel India, that's me, Roman [Reigns], and Dean [Ambrose]. I remember recording that and then we got to hear it maybe the next week at television or something like that. It was awesome, it would be really hard to imagine now doing another song because we're so used to hearing those words and the beat of the music coming down the stairs to it, so it'd be really hard to imagine doing something else. One song we get kind of fired up to is called "Wild Eyes" by Parkway Drive, who I'm a big fan of, the song is pretty gnarly and I think it would make a sick entrance theme actually.

WWE's product has been TV PG for about 6 years now, but at Extreme Rules you had a pretty great jump in the crowd during the six man tag. Do you see the product moving back into a more hard hitting unpredictable style like that, or do you think that was just a special match?

I don't think the PG rating has a whole lot to do with the style we bring in the ring. The company is now publically traded, and as you mentioned the programming is PG, but realistically a lot of the matches are still as hard hitting and fast paced and definitely more athletic than they've ever been. If you look at the talent roster now, you look at guys like Daniel Bryan, Cesaro, The Usos, and especially a lot of the guys coming up in NXT like Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville, and myself. We're just bringing a different element to the matches that I don't think people are used to. So I don't really think that the PG rating has much to do with the in ring content, as it does necessarily with the storyline content. Plus the company is just a little more keen on our safety these days too, they take extra precaution when it comes to injuries. They've really taken the danger out of the bleeding situation, they've taken the extra care to make sure that everyone's healthier so we can be doing this longer. Realistically, that's good for everybody. If you look at Bray Wyatt and the Wyatt Family too, their storylines are pretty edgy and sometimes borderline PG 13. I think it's a good time to be a wrestling fan, I don't think there's any reason for us to move away from trying to be kid friendly.

Yeah, I don't think that being TV PG can technically stop you from having an edgier product. Because if you look at WCW back during the nWo days, or even during the earliest days of the Attitude Era, it was under the TV PG banner, it's just all about what you're doing under that. So it seems like [the product] is moving in a good direction. But talking about WrestleMania weekend last month, a lot of surprising things happened that month. The Undertaker's streak ended on the actual show, then a few days later The Ultimate Warrior tragically passed away. What were the reactions from you and those around you when those events occured?

It was really just a roller coaster of a weekend, because on one hand it's WrestleMania 30. It's the biggest event in the history of our sport, something to be really excited and happy about. The unpredictability of The Undertaker's streak being snapped for the first time in 22 years, that was literally one of those moments where you'll remember where you were at and what you were doing. I was upstairs in the family room, we had just got done beating the dog crap out of Kane and the New Age Outlaws for like 2 minutes, so we were riding pretty high. I was up in the family box with my friends watching the rest of the show kind of reveling in my success, then I remember the 3 count after [Brock Lesnar's] F5. I literally stopped and my jaw dropped, I couldn't believe it, I thought for sure that was never going to happen. I thought that would never, I don't know, talking about it now still seems surreal even though it's been a little over a month. The sad part is, that is what it is, it's part of the show.

We got to Tuesday night when I first heard about the Warrior, I heard about it through Twitter because Triple H was the first one to get the news, and he went straight to Twitter and put it up there. That was the first I had heard of it, there's really no words for that. For a guy who after all those years had come back, and was in the middle of a personal and professional redemption, to lose his life at really one of his highest points personally is strangely inspiring, and at the same time very sad. A lot of people talk about his promo from Monday and how prophetic it was, maybe it was almost too much like he knew what was coming. He was at a beautiful place, I know that from talking to him over the weekend. Just from people who were close to him, to see how happy he was. At the very least, he was in a very good place personally, my thoughts and sympathies go out to his family and his daughters and stuff like that. I think for him, it might have been okay for him, I think he might have been alright with the way things ended, and that's always important.