Seth Rollins Explains Why His Monday Night Messiah Stable Failed
Rollins felt as though the group had a lot of untapped potential
Jun 21, 2023
As a member of The Shield, Seth Rollins knows all about being part of a very successful stable.
When he tried to head up his own group as the Monday Night Messiah in late 2019 and 2020, however, things didn't go quite as smoothly.
Speaking with The Daily Mail, the current WWE World Heavyweight Champion explains why the unit - which comprised himself, Buddy Murphy, the Authors of Pain, and (eventually) Theory - failed.
Asked whether there were big plans for the ensemble, Rollins said:
"Oh yeah. The character of the Monday Night Messiah was very much a cult leader, very much a spiritual guide and a mentor - all those things. You look at the talent I was able to bring in under that tree, but everything just kept going sideways. There were injuries and then the pandemic happened, there was talent shifting from the main roster to NXT and everything was just uncertain. Then it reached its peak with the story with Rey Mysterio and Dominik and all that and there really wasn't anywhere else for it to go because it had been decimated throughout the year 2020".
Continuing, Seth explained how he had high hopes for the group:
"I think it had a lot of legs, I think what you saw was it just getting started in early 2020, I think we had the chance to be one of the most dominant stables in WWE at the time, this was pre-Bloodline as well. I would have been very interesting to see had we kept going, where everybody would have landed. It's a fun little fantasy booking experiment to see what that stable against The Bloodline would have looked like, it would have been really interesting. But it's just one of those, it is what it is, it happens and people have to adapt, stuff changes and you have to make the best of it".
Rollins is set to defend the World Heavyweight Title against Finn Balor at Money in the Bank on July 1.
