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Seth Rollins hopes to be back in time for WWE WrestleMania 42, but the decision ultimately is not in his hands.

The former World Heavyweight Champion underwent shoulder surgery in October and was given a 4-6 month timeline for how long he would be out of action. That makes a WrestleMania return possible for Rollins, though it all depends on if WWE medical will clear him in time.

During a media tour to promote “WWE: Unreal,” Rollins spoke with Men’s Health and was asked if he’d be back for Mania.

“Don’t know. Don’t know the answer to that yet,” Rollins responded. “The timeline for shoulder surgery and repair is, you know, 4-6 months or so. Did my rotator cuff back in October. I’m rehabbing. As long as there’s no setbacks, I hope to be cleared by the time WrestleMania rolls around in April. But, I mean, at the end of the day, that decision isn’t mine. I just can do the best I can day after day, get myself in a good position, and hope for the best.”

Rollins suffered the injury during his match against Cody Rhodes at Crown Jewel: Perth 2025. He was the World Heavyweight Champion at the time but had to vacate the title due to injury. With Rollins sidelined, WWE was forced to adjust its plans. Rollins was written out in an angle where he was betrayed by the other members of The Vision. The faction now consists of Bron Breakker, Bronson Reed, Logan Paul, Austin Theory, and Paul Heyman.

WrestleMania 42 is being held at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19. Plans for the event will start to come into focus as the Royal Rumble takes place at the end of this month.

Seth Rollins isn’t a fan of matches that have a lot of moving parts.

To promote the new season of “WWE: Unreal,” Rollins and his wife Becky Lynch appeared on Barstool Sports’ My Mom’s Basement podcast. Rollins was asked about a comment he made on the docuseries where he said he hates Money in the Bank matches. Rollins admitted to being a “control freak” and said he doesn’t like match types where things are out of his control. That extends to other stipulation bouts like Royal Rumbles and Elimination Chambers.

“It stems from me being a control freak, that’s where it stems from,” Rollins said. “And the more moving parts, is the less I can control. Because I can only do so much. I have a vision. I see how it should be. And when things don’t go how I see them happening or how I feel that they should be going, I get so frustrated. And so, like, ladder matches like that where there’s moving parts and you just can’t control how things are going to happen. Random ladders breaking. There’s a whole bunch else going on. [The ladders] are never in the right spot.”

Lynch agreed with Rollins, saying they approach laying out matches in the same way. They both take on similar roles of wanting to be the leader.

Though he isn’t a fan of some multi-man matches, Rollins loved taking part in six-man tag bouts when he was part of The Shield.

“I was actually spoiled by The Shield six-mans,” he told My Mom’s Basement. “Because, I mean, Jon [Moxley] and Roman [Reigns] and I were all on the same page. Like, pretty much quickly. Once we were all rocking and rolling, it was smooth like butter. So you go back and look at some of those, the effortlessness with which we had those trios matches was really something. Especially for the time. You know, that style wasn’t cooking in WWE in 2012 or whatever it was. We kind of innovated a different — it wasn’t like six-mans were a new thing, but the way we were doing them as a three-man unit, you didn’t see that in WWE. We were fortunate to be on the other side of some pretty incredible talents. But even when we weren’t, we were able to feed off of each other. So I’d say I was spoiled because we were all just — it was a well-oiled machine.”

Season two of “WWE: Unreal” arrived on Netflix today. On the series, Lynch said she is in the midst of her “final run” in the ring.

Seth Rollins has a lot of good things to say about the crop of producers WWE has working behind the scenes.

During his appearance on the Mohr Stories podcast, Rollins detailed the role that producers/agents play in matches. They are not as hands-on with veteran talent like him, but the producers still act as an intermediary to make sure that everything goes smoothly. With younger talent, producers play a more active role in helping them learn how to build their matches.

“With me, they basically are like a stenographer. They’ll write down what we talk about, and then they’ll relay that to the [production] truck, so that they can get all the shots they want to get,” Rollins said. “They’ll relay that to maybe a head producer, who will make sure that we’re doing something different than all the other matches so nobody’s repeating themselves. So they’re like a nice intermediary. But they’re also like — they’re kind of the journeymen of our business.

Rollins credited Michael Hayes, Shane Helms, Jamie Noble, TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd), Abyss, Petey Williams, and Bobby Roode for being fantastic at what they do.

“Michael Hayes is one of them. I mean, he’s great. He’s on a different level,” Rollins said. “We have guys backstage like Hurricane Helms, who’s fantastic. Jamie Noble, who’s fantastic. Tyson Kidd, fantastic. I mean, the list goes on. There’s a ton of them. Abyss from TNA is there. He’s great. We have Petey Williams from TNA. Bunch of great producers.

“And for some of our talent that may not have the experience, they help them make sense of all of the things that need made sense of. So if something doesn’t sound right, Abyss can chime in and go, ‘Ahh, what do you think about this?’ Bobby Roode can say, ‘Ahh, maybe we do this instead?’ Or, ‘Oh, I like that idea, but what if we did it this way instead?’ And then talent learns that way, especially the younger talent. If you have two young talent, it’s quite nice to have somebody in there with a lot of experience to be able to kind of fine tune that.”

Rollins noted on Mohr Stories that he has three years remaining on his current WWE contract. He’s sidelined with a shoulder injury at the moment but is working hard to return in time for WrestleMania.

Seth Rollins was initially skeptical about going to Saudi Arabia when WWE started holding shows there, but the change he’s seen in the country has been “incredible.”

Appearing on Mohr Stories with comedian Jay Mohr, Rollins mentioned that Saudi Arabia is hosting the 2026 Royal Rumble. Mohr brought up the recent Riyadh Comedy Festival and asked if the WWE wrestlers will “take sh*t” for going there like the comedians who played the comedy festival did.

“We’ve been going there for six years. We’ve been taking sh*t for six years,” Rollins responded. “Oh, of course [we take sh*t for it]. ‘It’s blood money.’ Yeah, well, guess what? We get paid by America, too. What do you think? You think there’s no blood money there? Come on. Get out of here.

“Look, here’s what I’ll tell you. We’ve gone there for six years. And I’ll say this, when we went in 2019, I was skeptical as well. ‘Oh, I don’t know about this. I don’t know. I don’t know how I feel about it.’ But we go over there and the change in the culture and the people at our shows in six years has been incredible. When I tell you we went there the first time, there were no women on our show. There were no women backstage. They wouldn’t do anything. Now we go there and it’s just like a WWE show. The fans, there’s a ton of women there, local.”

WWE’s controversial relationship with Saudi Arabia began in 2018. Like with the comedy festival, WWE’s events that are held in the country are directly in partnership with the Saudi government.

Riyadh is hosting Royal Rumble 2026 on Saturday, January 31. The PLE has a 2 p.m. Eastern start time for viewers in the United States.

Rollins likely will not be able to compete at the Rumble due to the shoulder injury he suffered at Crown Jewel: Perth. He reiterated on Mohr Stories that he will likely be out of action for 3-4 more months, though he’s working hard to get cleared in time for WrestleMania 42.

Seth Rollins wants to remain part of WWE for as long as he can — along with balancing other pursuits like his new career in sports media.

A huge Chicago Bears fan, Rollins joined NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” this season as a regular guest host. He’ll also be making a pre-game appearance on Netflix’s Christmas Day NFL coverage. Speaking with Bleacher Report about his media gigs, Rollins said he loves being able to do them in addition to his WWE work. He wants to continue balancing them with WWE through the rest of his career in the ring and beyond.

“I wanna do it all. I don’t see any reason why I can’t,” Rollins said. “Who says I can’t do both? I love WWE and I wanna be a part of it for as long as I can, as long as they’ll have me, whether that’s in ring or behind the scenes. And I love talking about football, so if I can continue to kind of create my own space in that world and people will have me, I’d love to be there and talk about it. It’s a great thing to be able to do both, I’m super lucky. When I’m done, I wanna be in the booth calling a Bears game and then I wanna be calling the shots in Gorilla in WWE. So, let’s do it all.”

Rollins hasn’t given much thought to how much longer he wants to keep wrestling. At 39 years old, he believes he still has a lot left in the tank, though he knows his career has crossed the halfway point.

At the moment, Rollins is unable to wrestle due to a shoulder injury that he suffered in October. The injury forced him to vacate the World Heavyweight Championship and will keep him out of action until at least WrestleMania season.

“This thing with the NFL and my injury, it was a happy coincidence,” Rollins told Bleacher Report. “We were gonna do this no matter what. If I was still the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, I was still gonna be a broadcaster on Good Morning Football weekly. I was still gonna do the Christmas Day game either way, so it’s nice that I can kind of put most of my focus on this pot a little bit. Obviously, if I was doing both, it would’ve been a little more difficult because I would’ve had to split it, but I love both. I love professional wrestling and I love professional football.”

Netflix is broadcasting the Detroit Lions vs. Minnesota Vikings at 4:30 p.m. Eastern time on Christmas Day. The pre-game coverage that Rollins will appear on begins at 4 p.m.