Last year, Roman Reigns announced that his Leukemia had returned, which forced him to vacate the WWE Universal Championship. Later that same night, Dean Ambrose ended up turning heel on Seth Rollins.
Seth recently took part in Gorilla Position Live alongside Becky Lynch. During this, Seth opened up about the night that Reigns announced to the world that his cancer had returned.
Specifically, Seth revealed what Triple H told him and Dean Ambrose about the heel turn.
Here is what he said (h/t to Sportskeeda for the quote below):
“No one knew about that announcement that Roman made at the start of the show. Maybe a handful of people that were aware that that was going to happen. Myself and Ambrose were not two of those people. It was kept very close to the vest for a reason. The plan was to do that turn that night before the diagnosis came through that week. Roman had gotten some testing done. They had him do some extra testing and figured out that his leukemia had returned, and it was all up in the air, but the plan was still to do the turn, it was going to happen that night. After the announcement was made, we got all the emotional stuff out of the way.”
“Triple H came to us, and told Ambrose and I that it was our decision, how we wanted to do that. If we felt wrong, like it was something that we needed to push back a week, we could do that as well. Ambrose and I decided collectively that it would be best to do it that night. We thought the emotional response would be proper and that Roman, he wouldn’t mind. It’s pro wrestling you know, we are in the business of telling stories and a lot of that involves emotional rollescoasters, so we wanted to do that, and from a storytelling perspective it turned out really well.”
What did you think of the turn? Let me know in the comment section below.
On a related note, here is what Seth had to say about his recent text exchange with Dean.