WWE: Seth Rollins on He Didn’t Feel Guilty With Fake Knee Injury Ruse & John Cena Being Proud of The Outcome, Update on WWE’s Plans to Add Another Match to Card of Wrestlepalooz, More News

Seth Rollins Comments on He Didn’t Feel Guilty With Fake Knee Injury Ruse & John Cena Being Proud of The Outcome

A recent episode of the SI Media with Jimmy Traina podcast featured Seth Rollins as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Rollins thoughts about how many people were in on his “Ruse of the Century” fake knee injury for his surprise cash-in at this past August’s SummerSlam 2025 event.

“You can probably count on two hands.”

Rollins also gave his thoughts about who was the person who came up with the idea for his fake knee injury.

“I’m not exactly sure where it was hatched. It was presented to me in advance, quite some time, which in our business is a few weeks. I thought the idea was brilliant when I first heard it. Obviously, the execution was going to be important, and the details were going to need to be ironed out. I felt the crux of the idea was brilliant. I was the guy to be able to pull that off. I was very excited at the prospect of it. My level of commitment to our industry is second to none. I was the guy for the job.”

Rollins also gave his thoughts about if his fake knee injury ruse was difficult to pull off.

“I’m a professional, so I feel like I can do anything. All you need in our industry is a little shred of doubt, just a tiny bit of mystery and you get the magic. I thought as soon as Saturday Night’s Main Event went off the air, you saw everybody asking questions, ‘Oh, we’re in. It’s over.’ I don’t think it was too difficult. I think people are maybe smarter than they are sometimes.”

Rollins also gave his thoughts about if he felt any guilt during or after the “injury” over him fooling his closest friends and co-workers.

“I didn’t feel guilty. I let my wife [Becky Lynch] take all the guilt. She has the Irish guilt anyway. She steps on an ant and feels like she’s going to hell. If someone did this to me, I wouldn’t feel bad in the slightest. I would totally get it. Even my closest friends. Maybe John Cena. John reached out and I had to do my best to wiggle around it. John and I are cut from the same cloth, so when John saw the final outcome, he was very happy and proud.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Update on WWE’s Plans to Add Another Match to Card of Wrestlepalooza

As noted before, WWE is currently expected to announce a sixth match for the card of Wrestlepalooza on September 20th in Indianapolis, Indiana. This new match is expected to be a Triple Threat match featuring Nia Jax, Jade Cargill, and Tiffany Stratton.

Fightful Select reported that their sources confirmed that WWE officials currently have plans for Stratton to defend her WWE Women’s Championship against Jax and Cargill at Wrestlepalooza.

It was reported that this new match is dependent on if Stratton can be medically cleared from her undisclosed injury in time for the show.

Stratton had been pulled from her scheduled match at this past Tuesday’s WWE NXT Homecoming show due to not being medically cleared from an injury she had suffered during her WWE Women’s title match against Cargill and post-match attack by Jax at last week’s SmackDown show.

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WWE News & Notes

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that Shinsuke Nakamura was seen in Ohio on Thursday ahead of Friday’s WWE SmackDown show in Toledo. Johnson reported that it is currently not known if Nakamura will be making an appearance on the show but if he does, it will be his first appearance since this past June.

Bleacher Report recently released their Top 25 WWE Women’s Wrestlers of All Time list with Becky Lynch taking their top spot. The top five in order were Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Trish Stratus, Rhea Ripley, and Sasha Banks.

As noted before, Wade Barrett has been away from WWE since early this month due to reasons later clarified due to him being granted some time off for “personal reasons.” PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Barrett is currently listed as part of the commentary team for this Saturday’s WWE Wrestlepalooza event.

WWE recently filed a new trademark for “WWE Films” for motion pictures films and television production and distribution to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. WWE also recently filed a new trademark for “Succession” for wrestling an entertainment-related purposes.

Director Ryan Prows recently announced on Instagram that his upcoming new indie horror film Night Patrol will be released in theaters in January 16, 2026. This upcoming film features CM Punk among the cast. The official synopsis of this film is “An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.”

Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that the recent online rumors of WWE officials giving up on Jacob Fatu for his lack of direction of late is not true. Sapp reported that his sources stated that WWE officials still view Fatu as someone who is here for the long run as a star for the company.

WWE recently released two new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a No Disqualification Tag Team match of Diamond Dallas Page & Lex Luger vs. nWo (“Macho Man” Randy Savage & Scott Hall) from WCW Fall Brawl ’97. The second new video was the full October 18, 2000 episode of WCW Thunder.

WWE also recently released four new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Story of Randy Orton after Evolution (2004-05).” The second new video was a WWE RAW Tag Team Championship match of The Shield (Dean Ambrose & Seth Rollins) vs. Drew McIntyre & Dolph Ziggler from WWE Hell in a Cell 2018. The third new video was a “Eddie Guerrero Mixtape: Full Matches, Rare Interviews and BTS Footage.” The fourth new video was a WWE Championship 60-Minute Iron Man match of Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle (c) from the September 18, 2003 episode of WWE SmackDown.

In a recent interview with the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels gave his thoughts about why he still considers his match against The Undertaker at WrestleMania 26 to be his retirement match and his tag team match at Crown Jewel 2018 to just be a special “one-off” and him not coming out of retirement. Michaels stated “It’s that one with Undertaker [at WrestleMania 26]. Because the other one, it was a tag match, it was DX, and I feel kind of bad, because I don’t mean it in a negative way, but that was just sort of like, I don’t know. It was like Kiss going out, and not even with the original members or whatever, and playing a concert at The Troubadour or something. It was like, Oh, but they’re not really retired, and I know Kiss never retired, just felt like a special, separate one-off. HBK and Mr. Wrestlemania, The Showstopper, whatever, that ended with Taker at WrestleMania, because I still came back and refereed the match between Hunter and Taker and again, and will always play a role in the WWE. Would it count if I went into the Rumble this year or something? Don’t get me wrong.” Michaels also gave his thoughts about if he will be in next year’s Men’s Royal Rumbe match in Saudi Arabia. Michaels stated “Oh, heavens no! Probably shouldn’t have said that. I was just using that as an example. But no, I don’t consider those a match. A single performance by me, by HBK, by that guy. That’s not who that was. That was a dude hanging out with his buddies and having a match. So one was the artist, the other one is was a dude, like I said, hanging out with his buddies.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)