Seth Rollins Says WWE Needed The World Heavyweight Championship Because Of Their Stacked Roster

Seth Rollins says WWE needed the World Heavyweight title he currently holds because the WWE roster is so full of stars.

Rollins is the first World Heavyweight Champion, defeating AJ Styles for the vacant championship back at Night Of Champions.

Speaking with Mark Andrews on My Love Letter to Wrestling, Rollins addressed the notion that the World title is the “work-rate” title of WWE.

“I think just kind of calling it the work-rate title is a little bit underselling it. At the end of the day, the title exists because our roster is so chock full of talent. There’s just too much to have one champion that’s not around very much, and so I think the fact that we had so many worthy contenders, people that could hold this championship, I think that is the reason the title exists. If we had a weak roster and things weren’t good and stuff wasn’t hot, it might be fine just to have one champion who wasn’t around, didn’t want to make live events, but that’s just not the case. We’re selling out left and right, we’re hot, from here to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Paris, France, Mexico City, it doesn’t matter. We’re just selling out left and right, and we need to have a World Heavyweight Champion on the men’s side to represent that level of competition. So I think we’re going to put in the work to build this title to be as big as any championship in wrestling. We’re not naive and think that we don’t need to put that work. We know that it needs to happen. But we’ve got the roster, and the guys and the crew who are willing to put in the time to make it feel as big as it is,”

Seth Rollins

Rollins defended the title for the first time on Monday’s RAW, defeating Damian Priest to retain his championship. After the match, it became clear that Seth’s first program as champion would be with Finn Balor.

What do you think? Is the World Title needed due to WWE’s stacked roster? Let us know in the comments and on our social media pages.

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