{"id":2718,"date":"2015-11-08T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T21:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2015-11-08T21:31:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T03:31:55","slug":"report-rollins-says-knee-injury-was-complex-accident-what-does-it-mean-for-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/08\/report-rollins-says-knee-injury-was-complex-accident-what-does-it-mean-for-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Report &#8211; Rollins says injury was &#8220;complex accident,&#8221; what does it mean for WWE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-4010322551\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/seth-rollins-interviewed-about-knee-injury-28178565\" target=\"_blank\">WWE&#8217;s website<\/a> served up a softball question to Seth Rollins, whose WWE Title run ended in a split-second when he tore his knee on the first night of the European Tour.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Hey, Seth, it was a freak accident, right?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rollins&#8217;s answer was much more revealing than WWE likely wanted it to be, as Rollins opened the door for questions about the full-time WWE schedule that has affected wrestler&#8217;s health for decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You know, it\u2019s one of those things, that yeah, it\u2019s a bit of a freak accident,&#8221; Seth said,\u00a0&#8220;but,\u00a0I was just talking to a friend of mine, who is a physical therapist and may be doing the work on my knee moving forward, and he kind of summed it up as a &#8216;complex accident.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a &#8220;complex accident?&#8221; The injury\u00a0might not be as simple as just Seth&#8217;s foot slipping executing a basic sequence in the match against Kane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As in, there are a lot of factors that led up to it and not just a freak thing, you know?&#8221; Seth continued. &#8220;And that\u2019s just part of me going as hard as I have for as long as I have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rollins is not the type of wrestler to blame the schedule or blame WWE management, but the more time spent in the ring means more\u00a0chances for an injury to happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For whatever reason, I just landed on the inside of my right foot, instead of flat with my feet and my knee gave,&#8221; Seth told WWE&#8217;s website.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1829396318\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Was Rollins simply fatigued, leading to a minor thing like foot placement leading to a serious knee injury?<\/p>\n<p>Rollins&#8217;s injury occurred\u00a0seven months into his WWE Title reign. He&#8217;s been asked to wrestle on Raw (sometimes two matches per show), occasionally on Smackdown because of the lack of top-line stars, and weekly on house shows. Not just wrestle a five-minute TV match, but carry shows. He took a weekend off in the middle of his title run, which was good for him.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins, like 30-40 other full-time wrestlers on the roster, was beginning\u00a0a grueling two-week European Tour. Add it all up and Rollins was susceptible to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins put it himself on that the injury was &#8220;just part of me going as hard as I have for as long as I have,&#8221; but there have been countless other wrestlers who have suffered significant\u00a0injuries because they were susceptible to something\u00a0happening in\u00a0WWE&#8217;s system where there is\u00a0no off-season.<\/p>\n<p>Rollins&#8217;s situation opened the door to more calls for a Talent Rotation System or other structured off-season to where wrestlers can simply get out of the ring for a period of time and protect themselves from &#8220;complex accidents.&#8221; Perhaps because this time it affected the WWE champion right in the middle of a major storyline that WWE will take notice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-321315300\"><div id=\"pwtor-1873258638\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>WWE&#8217;s website served up a softball question to Seth Rollins, whose WWE Title run ended in a split-second when he tore his knee on the first night of the European Tour. &#8220;Hey, Seth, it was <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/11\/08\/report-rollins-says-knee-injury-was-complex-accident-what-does-it-mean-for-wwe\/\" title=\"Report &#8211; Rollins says injury was &#8220;complex accident,&#8221; what does it mean for WWE?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[84,71],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-seth-rollins","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Rollins_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}