Seth Rollins on Why he Lost the Curb Stomp

Burn the offense to the ground! Seth Rollins is one of the top stars in WWE today and a multiple time World Champion. However, for a top name, he’s also had a number of different finishing moves. Aside from his current wind-up jumping knee to the face and the Pedigree, he also had the curb stomp, which vanished from his arsenal about two years ago. So what changed?

Rollins was recently interviewed on the “Sam Roberts Wrestling Podcast” and discussed the curb stomp being taken away from him. Basically it was another of Vince McMahon’s whims, with McMahon deciding that it wasn’t the right kind of move for one of the company’s top stars to be using. Rollins also talked about his reaction to the change. Here are his comments, with transcription courtesy of Wrestlinginc.com:

“No more blonde and The Curbstomp is gone, guys. It’s not my fault. Trust me. It’s not like I was [saying], ‘oh yes, I want a new finisher.’ No, they snatched it from me. They took it from me. No, so this is what happened, okay? After WrestleMania, I had won the [WWE] title, and I flew across the country to do the Today Show. For the Today Show, they put together a package of all of Seth Rollins’ awesome maneuvers. At the time, my finish was The Curbstomp.

“So Vince McMahon is sitting wherever Vince McMahon sits on a Monday morning and he’s seeing me on the Today Show and I look good in a suit. I’m representing the company. I look good in a suit. And I’m wearing the title and then he sees this package of me stomping another man’s head into the ground and it being called The Curbstomp on national television. And he thought to himself, ‘well, that’s not a good representation of what I want my top guy to do,’ so he just had a meeting with some of his people, and they decided, ‘well, we don’t need it – we can figure out another finish for you’ and the rest is history. I get it. I hate it. I think it’s silly, but it is what it is and it’s not my company. I’m doing the best I can with it.”

Here’s one of the last times Rollins used the curb stomp.

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You can listen to the full show here.

Opinion: I like Rollins’ reaction to this. There’s only so much you can do when McMahon makes a decision about something and there’s no reason to argue with him about it. Rollins is someone who is going to be fine with almost any finisher (aside from the Pedigree, which I still didn’t like for him) and losing the curb stomp hardly hurt him.

What is your favorite of Rollins’ finishers? Do you miss the curb stomp? Let us know in the comments below.