Seth Rollins
Former WWE Champion Seth Rollins wants WWE RAW to be a two hours show for some apparent reasons
WWE RAW Superstar Seth Rollins recently appeared on the SI Media podcast and talked about various stuff related to his career and WWE. Where he was asked if he prefers Raw or SmackDown and why he’s not a fan of 3 hours of Raw.
Rollins mentioned that he thinks that three hours shows are obnoxiously long. He said that two hours is a beautiful number for a pro wrestling show. Seth also talked about big superstars like Roman Reigns hardly wrestle on television. And how three hours is just a lot to ask for.
“I think a three hour show is just obnoxiously long every week. Everything gets stretched out, you know, and you’ve got to cram — you got to fill three hours of television, there’s just nothing to be done. You know, that’s just how it is. So I think two hours is a beautiful kind of number for a pro wrestling show. And I think it’s easier to make everything mean a little bit more. You know, on SmackDown when I was there last year, I hardly ever wrestle on television, and so it was kind of a big deal. You look at Roman. He hardly ever wrestles on television, I think maybe a handful of times in the last year. So when he has matches at these pay-per-views, they feel like big deals, and on Raw, I’ve wrestled in like 26 five-star matches in the last two months. It’s just been wild the amount of actual wrestling that I have to do, and I’d love to avoid that, but it is what it is. I like the fact that I get a lot more screen time on Mondays because you have the extra hour, but yeah, it’s a apples to oranges type thing. I do think three hours is just a lot to ask every week of a viewer.” (H/T Wrestling News)
Vince McMahon has mentioned that he would love to see if Raw could be 90 minutes. However, WWE gets paid a lot for 3 hours every week.
During the podcast, Seth was asked about WrestleMania going two nights, to which he said that one of the most important reasons WWE decided to go two nights is because he feels that 7+ hour shows were too much to sit through.
He said that the longer the show goes, the worse it gets and sitting for seven hours is obnoxious and is too much wrestling. Rollins also mentioned that four hours is a solid number once a year.
“Well, the longer it got, the worse it was. And the one in question is the New York WrestleMania which literally, from the pre-show to the finale, was like seven straight hours, and that is obnoxious, that is way too much wrestling. And mind you, my wife won the main event that night. They didn’t go to the ring until after midnight. It’s just asinine, and the crowd was tired. It caused such a catastrophe because the subways had shut down, and no one could get back to where they were going. It was such chaos because we were out of MetLife in the Meadowlands.
“I think seven hours is just too long. You know, I think WrestleMania four hours is solid. That’s a solid number once a year for four hours. I can live with that. Seven hours? I don’t know. Pick your poison.”
WWE has however made every WrestleMania from now on to be a two nighter event. Next Year’s show has been announced for April 1st and April 2nd.
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