Harvey Dent said it best - “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” It only took the internet and the WWE Universe darling a few key tweets and all of the sudden, Seth Rollins was well on his way to once again becoming a massive heel. After he attempted to call out the Raw locker room for their collective performance at the Survivor Series, The Man’s man was firmly entrenched in being the most hated superstar on the roster.
Now that’s he’s aligned himself with the AOP and Buddy Murphy, one-half of the WWE Raw Tag Team Champions is on a collision course with someone at WrestleMania. The only question is who will be the one to take on The Monday Night Messiah? Let's take a look at five possible WrestleMania oppponents for Seth Rollins and five superstars we don't want to see battle Rollins on The Grandest Stage Of Them All.
10 Want To See - Kevin Owens
Since before the Survivor Series, Kevin Owens has been the superstar questioning Seth Rollins the most. It turns out that the guy was right. Rollins’ heel turn started with KO, it should end with the guy, too, right?
Yes, they’ve fought before, including their battles over the Universal title a few years ago. But now, they’re both at the top of their games and WrestleMania would be the best place to watch these two steal the show at Raymond James Stadium.
9 Don’t Want To See - Buddy Murphy
Since he cut weight and joined 205 Live, Buddy Murphy has been working extra hard to get noticed and brought up to the big time. His matches with Aleister Black piqued the interest of the fans and now Murphy finds himself in a prime spot as part of Rollins’ new crew.
While a match between the two of them would be awesome to see, it’s too soon to see Murphy try and split from the group.
8 Want To See - Samoa Joe
If he can recover from his injury in time for WrestleMania, the current feud between Rollins and anyone of his disciples would fit Samoa Joe perfectly. Similar to Kevin Owens, there’s a slew of history to here as well.
Samoa Joe once debuted as the hand of destruction for Triple H, targeting Rollins. Nowadays, The Samoan Submission Machine has been right on Rollins’ heels ever since AOP came after him at the announcers table. A match against Joe would be completely brutal and would also mark Joe’s first marquee match at The Show Of Shows.
7 Don’t Want To See - "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Their first encounter at last year's Hell In A Cell put a stench on what was an otherwise decent show. The rematch at Crown Jewel furthered the absurdity of how powerful The Fiend is.
Aside from Rollins being a smarmy, cowardly heel; there should be zero reason that WWE would want to go back to this well. Certainly, fans have little to no interest in revisiting this either.
6 Want To See - Daniel Bryan
After losing to The Fiend at the Rumble, it currently seems that Daniel Bryan is rudderless with no direction heading to ‘Mania. Perhaps an iconic and straight up grudge match is in order.
Rollins could think that Bryan is his latest disciple, but Bryan thinks that The Monday Night Messiah is a little misguided and needs a little bit of The YES! Movement in his life. It’s an easy set up and Bryan doesn’t even have to leave Smackdown - the WWE used to have very memorable Raw vs. Smackdown matches that took place at past WrestleManias, why not start the tradition again?
5 Don’t Want To See - Roman Reigns
Seth Rollins didn’t turn his back on The Shield this time, just the fans and his own ideals. While it might seem like a no-brainer to shoe-horn Roman Reigns into this story, that’s exactly what it would seem like, no brains and shoe-horning The Big Dog and The Messiah into a program with each other.
Roman Reigns vs. Seth Rollins at WrestleMania? Strangely enough, it just doesn’t seem like it has any cache to it this time around.
4 Want To See - The Viking Raiders
The Viking Raiders have truly rose through the ranks of Monday Night Raw. Presently, they're engaged in a main event level feud with the likes of Seth Rollins and his disciplines.
The former champs, The Viking Raiders are reminiscent of plenty of old-school bruiser tag teams and according to themselves when they were on ATB with Corey Graves, Vince is pretty high on them. This seems like a grand time to have a traditional tag team match back on the main card at WrestleMania.
3 Don’t Want To See - The Big Show
The Big Show is 100% an absolute legend and as we get seemingly closer and closer to his eventual retirement, he deserves a grandiose sendoff befitting of the legend. Despite being brought into the storyline early on, the booking wouldn’t be able to make enough fans interested in what technically would be a main event level match.
With all of the twists and turns of The Big Show over the years, even he wouldn’t be seen as a credible threat to The Monday Night Messiah.
2 Want To See - CM Punk
In some ways, Rollins’ heel turn all started with CM Punk, or at least tweets about him. Rollins as a real person definitely has had the company on his back for a long time now. There is a truth to what he has said as both a heel and a babyface. But when he tried to call out Punk, this is when the fans started to turn on him. However, Punk took his ball and went home, Rollins has been on the show day in, day out unless injured.
A battle with Punk could be conceivable for the mindset of the entire WWE Universe -- The Voice Of The Voiceless against the Monday Night Messiah in a battle for the soul of the WWE. You know, if Punk actually wanted to come back to work.
1 Don’t Want To See - Triple H
Currently, there doesn’t seem to be any kind of plan for Triple H to work a match at WrestleMania. However, there is still sometime between now and April 5th.
Triple H could be the one to stop the reign of Rollins. Not only did we already see these two battle at WrestleMania 33, haven’t fans seen enough of this weird, teacher / student relationship?