Seth Rollins Opens Up About Being Attacked By A Fan

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Seth Rollins has discussed the infamous fan attack from 2021.

In November 2021, a fan hopped the barricade and bull-rushed Seth Rollins during an episode of Monday Night Raw from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Despite talking about the incident shortly thereafter, it has been quite some time since Rollins has been able to reflect on the terrifying incident.

Appearing on the latest episode of Impaulsive, the current World Heavyweight Champion discussed the fan attack and recalled how it felt in the moment. He said:

“So, first of all, this guy, I want to preface it by saying, when I found out about everything, I felt very bad for this guy. This guy, there’s some mental disability going on, his connection from reality is not all there.

“He was catfished online by someone pretending to be me, I believe. There was some amount of money exchanged for whatever he was being asked for, and this is not a new phenomenon, people will do this with, it happens a lot with our girls, people will catfish as our female superstars, and they’ll just pray on these people, they’ll say like ‘oh my brother’s sick in the hospital, can you send money’.

“But they don’t ask for money, they ask for it in gift cards. It’s insane, there was one with Becky actually, this person finally figured out that they were being catfished. This person showed up at the front row of a show, and brought this zip locked back of gift card that they had sent.

“It was like, I added it up, we’re talking thousands of dollars, thousands of dollars that they had given to “Becky” for her “brother in the hospital”, or something like that. It was wild.”

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Rollins continued on to sympathize on how the fan was feeling before attacking him, saying:

“Basically this guy had been catfished by somebody, pretending to be me, asking for money for whatever crisis they were going through, and he had given them some money, and he had reached his breaking point.

“So we’re in Brooklyn, I finished a match with Finn Balor, and I’m coming to the back, and I’m walking up the ramp like I always do. Our floor camera there in the aisle, his name’s Stewie, and he’s just following me as he always does.

“And then like, it happened instantly to me, because I’m not even thinking ‘oh somebody’s going to come out of the audience, I should be ready for this’, that’s what we have security for, that’s what the building security is for, and you just don’t think that’s gonna happen.

“So like, your brain is shut off from that part, you’re just in the performance. I’m just talking to Stewie, talking s**t, just doing my thing, I was a bad guy at the time, so I’m just dancing around and doing my weird Seth Rollins stuff, and I’m not paying any attention.”

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Further reflecting on how everything went down on that episode of Raw, Seth said:

“In retrospect, what I remember is seeing somebody come around the corner, running, which isn’t unusual either because sometimes they’re setting up pyro in the entrance for someone else, and he was wearing, he was in a t-shirt and pants so he was kind of nondescript.

“So I just saw him running and didn’t think anything of it. Next thing I know he’s cutting the corner, just zips right by Stewie and straight Football tackles me, form tackles me right there on the ramp, and it was terrifying because as I said I’m not prepared, so my instinct was just to get ahold of his head, and he’s just clawing at me, he didn’t haven’t any weapons thank god he had nothing on him, but he’s just kind of clawing, he’s not really throwing any punches or anything, he’s like grabbing my hair.

“So I have him, trying to get him, but he’s like a little ball. He’s a stout man, but he’s short so he’s like a little ball, so I couldn’t quite get a hold of him, Security jumped quick, our referee actually jumped quick, everyone was trying to get him off, but he had a hold of my hair.

“I haven’t divulged this part of the story yet. To try and dislodge him, the only thing that I could do, because I didn’t want to punch him, I didn’t want to hit him, the only thing that I could do, I saw, he was on top of me, over me, all I saw was his legs were kinda like [spread apart], so I just reached up, and just [grabbed].”

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On the aftermath of the fan attack, Rollins stated:

“I had to get this guy off me! I didn’t know what was going on, so I just reached up and just snatched. It was a squeeze, just a hard squeeze, he had my hair and he finally got pried off. Yeah, it got him off.

“But it was nerve wrecking dude, especially in the moment, like a split after he got me when I realised what was going on. If he had a shank, or any sort of sharp object I would have just been sliced and diced man. Very scary.

“Obviously the guy was arrested by the police that night, and they asked if I wanted to press charges, and I didn’t, I just asked that my PD try to find a way to help him.

“Once I saw what happened online afterwards when all the stuff popped up on Twitter like who is this guy, what is he doing, I think he posted a video the next day after he had made bail and it was clear that he was not in a proper state.

“I kind of got what was going on, so when they started to follow up I was like ‘this guy doesn’t need to go to prison, he needs help, so if there’s any services you guys offer for people in situations like this, please do that on my behalf’.

“Hopefully that happened, I have not heard anything about that, but yeah it was a very unfortunate incident all the way around, I’m happy that nobody was hurt, and hopefully he has gotten the help.”

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