Seth Rollins opens up about the physical toll professional wrestling has taken on his body
As seen during the October 13th 2025 edition of WWE RAW, The Vision turned against world heavyweight champion Seth Rollins. The angle was done because Rollins suffered an injury at the Crown Jewel PLE. Rollins was stripped of his championship because he needed surgery.
While speaking to Complex, Rollins commented on his recovery from a torn rotator cuff…
“It’s coming along. I had surgery almost three months ago now. I can do most normal things like wash my hair and, you know, scratch my armpit and all those things. So, it’s good. I don’t know exactly when we’re going to come back, but I’m making progress in the right direction.”
Rollins discussed the physical toll professional wrestling has taken on his body…
“I think the chronic ones are worse for me. Like last year my neck was destroying. Yeah, that was really bad. I had the low back stuff when I was dealing with that, when I was a world heavyweight champion for the first time. That was a really rough stretch where like I would land wrong one time and it was just—I felt like I couldn’t do anything for weeks. That was a struggle.
I think those—the acute ones seem, you know, they’re the ones that get the most publicity. You break something, you tear something. But honestly, for us who’ve both been doing this for over 20 years, like the chronic wear-and-tear injuries that finally start to catch up to you—then it’s, you know—that is the most painful stuff, I would say.”
Rollins went into more details about his neck…
“During the summer last year, I couldn’t go 30 seconds without fidgeting. Yeah. I was trying to just—I had to get in a different position. And I had to like jam my thumb into my neck. I mean, it was not fun.
And then had to try to go to work and wrestle and, you know, be like normal and stuff like that. And like the worst part was like, you know, when your daughter wants to play and you’re like, ‘Ah, just daddy needs a minute.’
Seeing her disappointed is the worst feeling in the world. You know what I mean? Like I can get through wrestling stuff, whatever. Seeing my daughter like disappointed and the sadness on her face because daddy can’t like pick her up—that hurts. That like sticks with you, you know.”