Seth Rollins has been on the shelf for WWE since the start of October when he injured his shoulder in a match with Cody Rhodes.
The injury radically changed plans for WWE. Bron Breakker was jettisoned into the main slot in The Vision, attacking Rollins and getting him out of the group.
Rollins had led The Vision since WrestleMania where he and Paul Heyman then recruited Breakker and Bronson Reed. Logan Paul also joined the group ahead of War Games and has remained with them ever since.
A masked man imitating Rollins and his stomp has also joined the group. He was revealed to be Austin Theory on RAW this week.
Could Rollins return in time for WrestleMania to face Breakker or someone in The Vision?
Speaking on the show Games with Names, Rollins opened up on how his injury happened and when we can expect him back.
“So I jumped from one turnbuckle all the way across the ring to the other turnbuckle, where Cody Rhodes was hanging upside down, and I headbutted him,” Rollins said.
“But in the landing…I did not stick the landing. I rotated a little bit to my left, landed hard on my left elbow, jolted it up into the shoulder, felt it go right away.
“I was like ‘Oh, we’ve got a lot left to do in this match. We’ve got a lot left to do. How much can I do? Can I do it? Should we go in a different direction with the finish? What should we do here?’
“There was a lot going on in my head. Luckily, I didn’t have to pick him up for anything…So fortunately, I was able to get through everything. I
“took his finisher off the top rope, which was pretty scary at that point, cause I knew I was going to land harshly on my shoulders, so I kind of kept it…tucked real tight…but yeah.
“I’m two weeks out of surgery now. It’s about a six month recovery, so we’ll see how it goes.”
WrestleMania 42 goes down in Las Vegas for the second year in a row on April 18 and 19th – exactly five months from now.
Could he make it? John Cena returned to the Royal Rumble well ahead of schedule back in 2008; it’s not uncommon for wrestlers to defy conventional physical wisdom.
Of course, Rollins could be working a little bit, too. He knows everything he says gets picked up and after he worked everyone (to a degree) with his injury angle earlier this year, there’s a chance he’s over-exaggerating.
Still, given how serious shoulder injuries can be, he probably isn’t and the race is on.
