Seth Rollins Opens Up About Roman Reigns’ Leukemia Returning

Seth Rollins was recently interviewed by Al Arabiya. During the interview, Seth spoke on a variety of topics. This included about the news that Roman Reigns’ leukemia has returned after 11 years.

Rollins first spoke about how he is managing the situation. Here is what he said:

“It threw everything up in the air. It’s hard to go a day without thinking about him and how he’s doing and hoping he’s doing alright. I’m fighting the urge to check in on him like a brother every two hours, but he’s a strong dude, and I know that he’s in a good place mentally as well as physically. He’s in good health for the most part. I think he’s going to be able to fight this thing pretty strong. We’re just getting through it while we can. Obviously it’s going to be easier as time goes on, but certainly the last couple weeks have been, and last week especially, have been a rollercoaster of emotions. Lots of ups and downs”

How he is approaching Roman being out of action and the hole that it leaves at the top of the card:

“With Roman not being on the roster for an indefinite period of time, there’s definitely extra pressure that I put on myself to step into that role. Obviously his shoes are his shoes and nobody is going to fill them, but I put pressure on myself, whether he’s around or not, to go out there and steal the show and have the best match on the card, and push everybody else to that level.

The thing that sucks about not having Roman, besides not having his camaraderie, is that he is one of the guys that pushes me to be better, because he goes out and gives it his all every single time. Not having him around, I’m feeling that pressure to step it up even more to bring everybody with me so we can try our best to fill the void that the big dog leaves behind”

On a related note, Seth named a handful of NXT stars who he thinks will become big deals on the WWE main roster.