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Seth Rollins reveals who came up with the idea to add “Freakin'” as his middle name.
The former World Heavyweight Champion official changed his name to Seth “Freakin'” Rollins back in 2021. He had been using it as a nickname for some time, but this change made it official for the WWE Superstar.
The change didn’t go down great. Many fans thought it to be ridiculous to say “Freakin'” every time he was referred to. This was also something the wrestler himself agreed with.
Seth Rollins recently appeared on Insight with Chris Van Vliet. On the show, he spoke about being given the middle name “Freakin'”, revealing it was the brainchild of Vince McMahon.
The former WWE Champion revealed that he doesn’t know why he was given the name. However, it made it clear after a time that he didn’t want them to refer to him as “Freakin'” every single time he made an appearance.
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“I give that credit to the old man [Vince McMahon].”He said. “The middle name was his idea back in the day. I don’t remember why. I don’t remember how it came about.”
He added, “I think he was just bored with Seth Rollins and he was like ah, you’ll be Seth Freakin’ Rollins again. Okay, cool. Sold a lot of T shirts when we did it, so whatever.”
“The thing that killed me was when we first did it, when we first brought the freakin’ back in. Because it was just like The Monday Night Messiah Seth Rollins or whatever, for a while. And then there was the Drip God, which was never my idea. I didn’t like that nickname at all. I tried to push The Visionary on him, and he didn’t get that character at all, and then added freakin’ in there at some point.”
“But then everybody had to say freakin’ every single time they mentioned my name on commentary, anywhere. The first thing I did when I had the opportunity was let’s just pull back on that, how about I just say it? If someone’s introducing me in a grandiose manner, they can say it. But if they’re just talking about me they could just say Seth Rollins, it’s okay. You don’t have to say The Tribal Chief Roman Reigns all the time. No one said The Hitman Bret Hart all the time.”
