Original subtitles

- Brother versus brother.

Roman Reigns versus Seth 'Freakin' Rollins.

- There was like a bond there, a brotherhood

that was set in place.

- We were committed to the cause.

We were committed to take over.

- They conquered the heights of this industry.

And then one stabbed the other in the back.

- Oh, my God, are you kidding me?

Rollins now-

He's assaulting Reigns.

- The future is now.

- This is about as personal as it can get.

- I hate you.

- Roman and Seth,

they're going to be looked at as the main event guys.

- There's egos and there's attitudes.

That's what it oils down to.

- I knew I could out wrestle him.

I knew I could out talk him, but it didn't matter.

Of course it's going to piss you off.

- I got betrayed by what used to be a brother.

But karma's a bitch.

- I am coming to end your career.

- I don't know how much more personal it can get.

- When two legends collide, their rivalry stays pinned

in our minds forever.

This is where we break down the legendary stories behind

the greatest rivalries of all time.

I'm Gabriel Iglesias

and this is

WWE Rivals.

- My brother.

I will always love you.

- I hate you.

[laughing]

- Roman Reigns Seth Rollins, two of today's biggest superstars.

- Roman Reigns is addicted to greatness.

That's why he is our Tribal Chief.

- Seth 'Freakin' Rollins, one of the most successful competitors

of the last decade.

- In some weird way, it's like they're-

they're wrestling soulmate.

You could have a match with them at any time or any place,

and it could be special and magical and memorable.

- But it feels like we're at a family reunion.

- That kind of chemistry you don't have with everyone,

but I don't know if they're friends.

They were friends, and I know that now they're very

competitive with each other, which probably makes

the rivalry even better.

- There they are, the Wild Samoans,

Afa, Sika.

- My father is Sika of the Wild Samoans.

He's a Hall of Famer with the WWE.

So I come from the wrestling business.

Everybody in my family,

either has aspirations or dreams,

or someone in our family is doing that dreaming for you.

So yeah, one way or the other, I've wanted to be involved

in this business.

And then years later, as I was getting older, dad asked me,

"When are you ever going to want to wrestle?"

I told him, "I'm, I'm ready."

I got a call the next day from WWE.

"Hey, we'd like you to try out for FCW."

And I was down there the next week.

- FCW or Florida Championship Wrestling is basically a proving

ground for young wrestlers

to make sure they were ready

for the biggest stage of all.

By this point, it was clear that Roman had a great look,

and he had huge star appeal.

- Trying to play it all cool.

But I had a lot of ground to cover.

- You wanna to wear it?

Put it on.

- For me, growing up, there really wasn't anything else

other than WWE.

It's all I watched.

I obsessed over it.

- Good, mean.

- Used to wrestle in my grandparents living room.

Body slam.

I lived and breathed it pretty much from the day I discovered

it, when I was like 4 or 5 years old, till all the way till now.

- Sit around.

- Roman got an opportunity based on his last name.

And me, on the other hand-

[laughing]

I had none of that.

I had no pedigree.

I had nobody to help me get in the door.

And I just made a name for myself on the independent scene,

working my way up from little tiny shows to the biggest

independent shows that you could find.

- Just 21 years of age.

What a bright future.

- And you know, one thing led to another, and I was able to walk

in the door around the same time as Roman at FCW.

We didn't run in the same circle.

He and I weren't close.

There was a presence about him, but it wasn't anything that

jumped off the page to me.

- Uh, he was an [bleep].

To me, just came off as, like, a [bleep].

Just came off as a quiet, antisocial,

didn't really care about the etiquette,

or the culture of the business.

What I want most is to to be on one of those banners back there.

Not only as a FCW Heavyweight Champion, but a WWE superstar.

- Roman was hand-picked company guy,

can't miss blue chip prospect.

Seth maybe feels he should have been

the hand-picked guy.

- Hell yeah,

there was a chip on my shoulder.

When you walk in and you see people

with these famous last names,

Their dads are Hall of Famers and they're getting

opportunities based solely on that.

Of course, it's going to rub you the wrong way.

Of course it's going to piss you off.

It's about honor.

It is about respect.

- This is a triple threat match-

- You see right there Roman-

- -against Dean Ambrose against Seth Rollins.

- So an incredible night for all three of these gentlemen,

because this is the proving ground.

This is where they have to shine.

- It was then.

At-at the time, and I was doing commentary for FCW,

and I'm watching the dynamic between them.

They both have the same mindset and they both

wanted to be that top person.

- Roman was very green at the time.

Obviously, Ambrose and myself,

we have tons more experience than he did.

Maybe the higher ups saw that as an opportunity to put Roman

with us and just see if he could hang.

And he hung.

- But-

Oh, just like that.

- I was in such deep water.

I quickly understood that I was under experienced,

I was undereducated.

My opinion of him quickly shifted from

"This guy seems like an [bleep] to, well, maybe he should be.

He's put in the work.

Yeah, maybe I'd feel that way too, if I was him."

- I mean, he's come from a family of great professional

wrestlers, although he's only been here for, what,

less than a year now.

He's got all that knowledge in his brain

that he's just got to put into practice.

- FCW,

when we were there, was like a desert island.

Nobody was paying any attention to it,

so it just gave us that more of a of a chip on our shoulder

to have the best performances possible.

- What?

- No way.

- No, no, no.

My gosh.

- I'm sort of taking over talent development.

At the time, I'm trying to make it into something bigger,

and really get these guys to another level.

They're given the opportunity to step up to the plate

and they took their shot.

♪

- Who the?

What the?

- That's Roman Reigns.

That's Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins.

- What the hell are they doing out here?

- The Shield was three guys out of that developmental system,

getting an opportunity to go show what that system

could do in the big level.

I remember thinking to myself, like,

this group is going to work.

It's going to be big and it's going to launch whoever's in it.

They came in here and just showed up and went to town.

It was wonderful to see.

- Their impact was immediate.

It was just really three strangers showing up.

Before long, they were one of the most dominant faction ever-

-in a matter of months.

[yelling]

- They were in there with main event top guys from the jump.

And I'm not just talking about me.

They're in there with The Rock.

They're in there with John Cena.

They didn't start at the bottom.

They started right at the top.

And it's sink or swim and those guys swam laps.

- When you hear their music and they're coming down through the

crowd, you knew something was going to happen-

-car wreck was about to happen.

[The Shield's music]

- There was like a synergy to them as well to where it was

like the sum was greater than the parts.

Nothing against any of them separately, but it was just-

That's what kind of group they were.

- This is The Shield.

- It couldn't have worked out any more perfectly.

- We are the new kings.

- But they all had their own part in that,

but they all worked brilliantly as a unit.

- We were all going through the same aches and pains-

- Ah.

- -just learn about each other and each other's past.

Once you develop a friendship and a and a healthy respect for

each other, you start to be a little less judgmental of where

these people came from and how they got to where they are.

We just became brothers very quickly.

Every time we ever rode together,

I drove, uce in the back, usually asleep.

Quick, quick.

- What?

- I was just saying, you know, he's sleepy, you know.

He's just-

- Ah.

- He's got a rest.

- We treated each other like brothers on the road, traveling,

you know, it wasn't just like on camera.

We really kind of created a bond

that became very authentic and very real.

- We were always talking, always thinking,

always bouncing ideas off each other.

Always looking out for each other.

We were going to be there for each other.

But Roman and I, I mean, we worked well together.

[yelling]

And he listened and learned really quickly.

[crowd yells]

- One, two, three.

- When you're in a tag team or a group,

there's competition between that group.

And whenever one person does something,

the other person wants to-

-be a little bit higher.

[yelling]

- We completely understood that

we're competing against each other.

It's always going to make you better

because iron sharpens iron.

We always said that.

We always knew it.

- Rollins and Reigns tag team champions.

- In the most healthy way,

we were butting heads.

That's the mindset I've always had,

and I just want to show him better than him.

- I remember I was not in WWE yet, but I was still friends

with Seth and he would tell me he's like, "Yeah, you know,

I'm just trying to keep up with Roman.

They really like Roman."

I'm like, "The fans or like?"

"The company too.

I'm just trying-"

You know what I mean?

- Everything we'd seen from The Shield was that they were

the most tight unit imaginable.

- The men standing in this ring are brothers.

- It looked like the world was completely opening

up for The Shield.

Nothing could go wrong until it did.

[crowd yells]

- Oh my God.

Are you kidding me?

- There's always a plan B.

Oh my God.

- Seth Rollins turned on Roman by hitting him with a chair.

- Yeah, it was pretty shocking because at the time,

The Shield was still so strong, still so dominant,

still so popular.

It's one of the most shocking turns.

- They still had all their steam.

- Yeah, there was no.

And you know, sometimes you always see when a tag team is

going to break up, you see cracks in the foundation.

There were no cracks at all.

It was a complete 180.

- Man, I honestly, it's one of those moments that gets replayed

so many times that I don't have a first person experience of it.

Like, I can't picture myself holding the chair.

I can't picture myself

seeing it as I'm beating them with the chair.

I can't see any of that.

It's a very surreal experience to know that I was the person

that lived those images.

- You guys are on top of the world.

Why in the world would Seth Rollins do this?

- I trusted him.

The bond that we had was very real

and the trust was very real.

Then he just smashed it all and he left.

- I am the one who created The Shield,

and I am the one who has destroyed it.

- There is only one man, a ring general like no other,

and he is the future of the WWE.

Seth Rollins.

He started to succeed at the moment

when he was branching out of The Shield.

He knew with the Authority's support,

sky was the limit for him.

- A lot of people, including the other members of The Shield,

think that Seth Rollins sold out to Triple H and The Authority.

- Staying in your comfort zone makes for a boring television.

I think it's important to change and reinvent

and, uh, challenge yourself.

- I just feel like there was so much greatness

for The Shield to be had

and then it was done.

- You know, when you start out in a group, it's tough to go out

on your own because you're used to doing things as a team,

so you become comfortable with that.

When you go out on your own, there's nobody looking back

in the mirror except yourself.

You got to take the good and you got to take the bad.

- Now you're a man on a wire with no net.

So it was very scary.

And you're in there with the big fish, you know?

I got Randy Orton to my left.

I got Triple H, Stephanie McMahon.

I've got all these people who are right there.

It was very nerve wracking for me, uh,

personally and professionally.

- Everybody wants to be that guy.

You have to have a mindset that if you're going to lead,

you can't lead by just a little.

You have to get so far ahead of number two

that they can't even see your tail lights.

And then you have to stay out there.

- Seth Rollins, he's going to climb to the top.

He's going to grab the briefcase.

What this means is Seth Rollins has a contract that he can cash

in anytime for a WWE World Title opportunity.

- It was a big moment for Seth Rollins because Seth Rollins

knew at that point in time he had a chip in the game,

and he was going to have a hell of a future

in WWE if he just kept on that trajectory on that right track.

- When Roman Reigns came in, we were full of piss and vinegar,

but now we got to where we wanted to go and we really

started to cement ourselves as the top guys in the company.

- And here he comes, Roman Reigns.

Spear.

Roman Reigns is going to WrestleMania.

- You can look at Roman and tell-

yeah, he's a star.

But when you can tell that the company is trying to make you

the face of the company, you know,

sometimes that can be a tough hurdle,

and I think I think Roman kind of faced

that a little bit early on.

- I wasn't ready.

I think it created an insecurity which then created an obsession,

relentlessly pursuing to be the top echelon of this business.

And it was all just happening so fast for me.

- Welcome to WrestleMania.

- Roman Reigns is walking in to his first WWE World Heavyweight

Championship match tonight.

- Roman's been climbing that ladder, climbing that ladder,

and he finally gets up there and he's got Brock Lesnar.

- That's the man that Roman Reigns goes toe to toe

and face to face with tonight.

[bell rings]

- And here we go.

And Roman Reigns wasting a little time going on the attack.

Lesnar

F5.

Who can capitalize?

[Seth Rollins music]

- What on Earth?

Seth Rollins.

Mr. Money in the Bank.

What on Earth?

Seth Rollins.

Mr. Money in the Bank.

- Ladies and gentlemen, Seth Rollins is cashing

in his Money in the Bank.

Therefore, this will now be a triple threat match.

- Are you kidding me?

Went for another Curb Stomp

Lesnar-

Lesnar picked him out of the air.

Reigns with a spear-

a wicked spear.

Curb stomp to Reigns.

Cover by Rollins.

Rollins wins the title.

Rollins wins the title.

Rollins with the heist of the century.

- Here is your winner,

and the new,

WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins.

- Now that Seth is on his own, he wins Money in the Bank and

goes on to have one of the greatest cash ins.

- It was such an exciting moment.

Biggest way possible to do it.

And he ended up winning the title before Roman.

So I think he felt pretty good about that.

Because of their competitive nature,

it had to sting for Roman.

- We weren't together anymore.

It stopped being so much about looking out for each other, and

we were more looking out for ourselves.

- That main event was almost a validation that what I felt when

The Shield broke up was correct.

That it wasn't ready.

And by Seth pulling the trigger,

he signed the dotted line to confirm it.

My only goal was to be able to show that-

no matter the mountain, I'm willing to climb.

Did I get the job done tonight?

No.

Did I represent?

In my heart, I feel like I did.

[clapping]

- You become so passionate about

what they're so passionate about.

And seeing their highs and their lows and all these things.

And then when they have these moments where they succeed

at a level that they only dreamed about,

and you can see how excited they are.

You're so excited for them.

- I'm 29 years old.

I'm in great shape on the run of a lifetime,

was able to kind of move through the fall and have

some really cool, exciting moments.

- Rollins is going to win the US title.

- And we were getting ready

to get back to working with Roman again.

Unfortunately, when you-

when you wrestle 200 times a year,

bad things can happen.

I was doing a move that I'd done literally a million times,

and I landed awkwardly and felt the knee pop

and everything went south from there.

Got the news within 48 hours that it was a torn ACL,

and it was going to need to have surgery pretty quickly

and, uh, vacate the title,

and I was in a bad, bad place.

That was a really tough for me.

- Our main event, The Game Triple H, the champion,

the challenger, Roman Reigns.

- I did not want to be in Dallas.

And then being up in the box and watching the show,

and I remember just not being able to enjoy anything.

- Got to be able to hold up.

That's the part of the job here.

I was the more durable one.

Was it misfortune on his behalf?

Or was it good things come to those who wait?

- Injuries-

especially as athletes.

It can be really, really tough times emotionally for people.

- You know that in your mind,

that's your spot.

- Right.

- And that person is taking your spot,

and you're sidelined because of an unfortunate accident.

You don't- you don't really want to be there.

- Reigns is the champion.

Reigns is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

- I was a World Heavyweight Champion

just a few months ago.

You know, one of the biggest names,

and I felt like I couldn't have been smaller.

- After that night at Mania 32,

I started to really get my footing

in that main event scene.

- Tonight, Roman Reigns will battle AJ Styles.

- I go up to Newark.

I'm hiding on a bus.

I'm like, here we go.

I just didn't think anybody was going to care.

I didn't think he was going to matter that much, you know?

I thought it was just going to be like,

"Oh, great. He's back. Woo hoo."

You know?

- AJ Styles went for the-

- Oh my God.

Spear out of midair.

- He cut him in half

- Spear out of mid-air.

Roman Reigns retains the title.

- That's why-

- Oh my God.

Oh my God.

- What?

What?

- Oh my God.

It's Seth Rollins.

It's Seth Rollins.

A Pedigree.

Seth Rollins is back.

- It was a really nice feeling to get out there and and hear

the reaction from the people.

- It was Seth's way of saying,

"I'm back and I'm better than ever."

So now you have the story back in full swing.

- And it sets up what's to come.

- Seven months I have waited to come back

and take the title that I never lost.

- I would have been willing to compete with anybody,

but the obvious choice was to go back to Seth.

- Back in November, Seth Rollins suffered a serious knee injury,

forced to vacate the championship.

Tonight, he's coming to get what he calls "His title."

[bell rings]

- And we're underway

- You can feel it right now.

You can feel we're about to see something special.

- Who is the man?

- He's good.

He's really good.

That's what makes me really good.

- Oh, man.

Look at this.

- Power.

- What did you think this was?

You know what I am.

You're just little brother.

When you're going against somebody that's really good,

it's always going to make you better.

- Whoa.

- Oh my Lord.

Rollins showed us something there, guys.

Seth's got to get the champ back in the ring.

Building momentum.

The champion in trouble.

Seth Rollins-

- Seth.

- -is the champion.

- He was the second time he took a title from him,

which probably you know,

if we're talking about the personal nature of it,

I think he felt pretty good about that.

- That's how good Seth was.

He beat me that night.

But me and Seth Rollins are gonna butt heads

for the rest of our lives.

- So it is now 2018.

Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins,

two guys who came up together,

and, uh, who still continue to influence one another.

- Right.

- They're so competitive,

where it was always trying to one up the other,

and both kind of carrying the company in a way.

And at the time, it still felt a little bit like Seth

was chasing the anointed one.

- That's right.

- Capacity crowd.

SummerSlam.

There's a lot of stuff going through my brain.

- Perhaps the most important night of Roman Reigns'

career, his chance at the Universal Championship.

- That's the level of competition,

Seth's the same way.

We're grinding our asses off, man.

That was the 10,000 hour rule time.

This is where my quantity turned into quality.

- And Reigns with a spear to the champion.

Here's the cover ,hook of the leg.

Reigns did it.

Roman Reigns did it.

Reigns is the champion.

The elation from Roman Reigns.

- And then it's just all taken away.

[background noise]

- For months I've come out here and spoke as Roman Reigns.

My real name is Joe.

And I've been living with leukemia for 11 years.

And unfortunately, it's back.

♪

- To hear the word leukemia,

Just- It freezes you.

It stops you in your tracks.

For him to go out there with a microphone and say,

"I've got leukemia."

That's tough.

It was really tough for everybody.

It was one of those things where it kind of just stops being

about playing characters,

and it was just an emotional moment.

[crowd cheers]

- Even though this is about rivalries and clashes,

this was a battle that was bigger than any rivalry

that the two could ever have.

- It was good to see him there.

For leukemia,

if you caught it in an early enough stage like I did,

you were able to take essentially a medication,

a very potent medication that I'm still on to this day.

- So good to see you.

- It has been a long road back for that man.

- Physically speaking,

Roman Reigns looks as healthy as I've ever seen him.

- I'm in remission, y'all.

[crowd cheers]

- And this is the portion of time where nothing

was going to be the same.

- During the pandemic, Roman and Seth both had this incredible

opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade

by reinventing themselves.

- It was time to establish a new character and go in a different

direction and see where that took us.

I am a visionary.

I am a revolutionary.

I am Seth 'Freakin' Rollins.

- Seth Rollins is willing to entertain himself.

He's willing to laugh at himself.

When I look at Roman,

everything about Roman is no nonsense.

- When you have this kind of power,

all you got to do is show up and win.

- Roman Reigns has won the Universal Championship.

This Roman Reigns has a much different attitude.

He's a different superstar.

- WWE did maybe the most significant thing that they

could possibly do, which was take their chosen one,

babyface and turn him heel.

- No.

- Stop, stop, stop man.

Stop uce.

- And it worked.

- Only four men have held a world title longer

than Roman Reigns.

Have you ever seen a champion as dominant?

- The need to keep up with Roman was based mostly on the fact

that, from my perspective, no matter what I did,

I was never going to be treated the same way

as him by the company.

Knowing that, I had to work harder.

- Seth Rollins is a workhorse day in and day out,

365 days a year,

he is a WWE superstar.

Roman Reigns isn't here 365 days a year.

He's here for the big events.

- WrestleMania.

Acknowledge me.

- I knew I could out wrestle him,

I knew I could out talk him,

but it didn't matter.

I operate better when I have a chip on my shoulder.

Even if I had no reason to put a chip on my shoulder,

I was going to find a reason.

- There's always something there with Roman and Seth.

What can they do next?

- The one thing Roman Reigns has not been able to get over

the dissolution of The Shield.

[laughing]

- Who doesn't love a good story that invols brothers,

people who loved each other dearly for years and years?

Something goes awry and now they're bitter enemies.

- That's right.

At the Royal Rumble, it's going to be the Visionary

versus the Tribal Chief.

The Revolutionary versus the Head of the Table.

Brother versus brother.

Roman Reigns versus Seth 'Freakin' Rollins.

- You know, Seth turns on Roman to break up The Shield.

So you've been waiting for these two to go at it for some time,

and you're finally getting it.

- I think they truly believe that they're the bigger star.

- Which is awesome.

- Roman was already in the middle of his run,

where he was barely here.

He was champion,

but he didn't really have to be here,

which I know rubs Seth the wrong way

because he's here every night,

every show, gives it his all.

- Nobody has more passion for this industry than-

than Seth Rollins.

Nobody.

He wants to be the very best because he is the very best.

He is the very best.

And he has a drive and a work ethic like nothing

I have ever seen before.

- So the real question I have for you is,

do you really understand who the greatest is here?

Let's not forget I created you,

and I can destroy you.

- You don't want everything to be so easygoing.

You- you want a different perspective.

- If I wanted the main event, the Royal Rumble

with a megastar,

I would have chose your wife.

- If there's friction.

A lot of the times on screen, everything's going

to be ten times better.

- One day away from their big match.

Seth 'Freakin' Rollins and

Roman Reigns will go face to face one on one.

- I'm not living in the past.

I'm living for tomorrow.

But the past is a good place to start, you see.

If we take a little stroll back in time,

we remember big moments.

Like the most famous Money in the Bank cash in of all time.

When I stole your first WrestleMania moment

right out from underneath you.

What about the time I took a steel chair to your back

and changed the game forever?

- That's what happens when you take relentless people

who want or need something.

He wanted my title and I needed to remind him,

you start pulling up old [bleep],

you're gonna get old feelings.

I tried to forgive you, I really have.

But I'll never forgive you for what you did to us.

I hate you.

- Roman Reigns went for a Superman punch.

Seth Rollins has claimed all along that he knows

all of Roman's insecurities.

That he's inside Roman's head.

Will it be enough to wrestle the Universal Championship

away from Roman Reigns?

Live tomorrow night at the Royal Rumble.

Tonight, dreams come true,

surprises are in abundance,

it's Royal Rumble.

Let's go.

[Roman Reigns' music]

[crowd cheers]

- Walking down the aisle here in front of 44,000 plus

is the greatest Universal Champion of all time.

He's a man who's transcending this business.

He's on a different level.

And tonight it's personal.

- Roman was ready to fight, and he just thinks he's going to get

in there with this guy who he once cared about and no longer

does, but knows is a big threat.

So Roman is in game mode.

[The Shield's music]

- Reigns cannot believe it.

Seth Rollins marching through the crowd.

- Royal Rumble 2022,

Seth Rollins versus Roman Reigns.

Seth makes an entrance to the ring

in original Shield gear.

- Yeah, coming through the crowd

- Coming through the crowd.

- Just by putting on the old Shield gear.

It's-

Yeah, I know you.

I know you better than anyone else.

- You got the great moment with me and The Shield entrance.

Just feel the energy of the audience.

There's nothing like that in the world.

- You can see that he's totally playing mind games with Roman.

It's cool to see somebody be able to take

Roman to his limits.

- Ring the bell.

[bell rings]

- And tonight, Rollins hopes to get in the head of the champ

and win the Universal title.

Maybe Roman Reigns will make a mistake.

And Rollins taking control.

- Rollins finding a groove here early.

- And Seth Rollins with Roman Reigns up high.

Rollins with a Shield bomb.

- Out of nowhere.

- This is Seth Rollins' chance.

- Seth Rollins finding a groove here early.

- Yeah Seth Rollins-

-oh, takes down Roman Reigns.

- It's Royal Rumble, and Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins

are facing each other.

The reunion in the ring.

- They were hitting each other so hard.

It was brutal.

It was violent.

It was fierce.

- Years of comeuppance.

- It was a testament to how passionate both of them are

about not only what they do,

but about this rivalry with each other.

- You [bleep] on everything we did, huh?

That's funny to you, huh?

You gonna laugh at me, huh?

[yelling]

That night wasn't about wrestling.

That was a night about proving a point.

Teaching a lesson.

There's consequences.

You have to understand that.

As a man, you have to realize that.

So I beat the [bleep] out of him.

- Through the stairs.

You're in Roman's world, now Seth.

- A Pedigree countered by Rollins.

- Seth has this ability to tweak something in a way

that makes a match infinitely better.

The man cannot have a bad match.

He's incredible.

- You're my brother.

- Fist bump made famous by The Shield.

- I'll always love you.

- Rollins continues to mock the champion.

- I'll always love you.

[laughing]

I got to play into trolling Roman a little bit and we

created some iconic moments, I think in that match.

- Seth Rollins is in trouble.

Roman's got the guillotine locked.

Will Rollins tap?

Rollins hand lands on the rope.

Reigns has got to break

- Three.

- No.

I don't care.

- Roman Reigns is not gonna break.

Reigns is going to be disqualified.

[bell rings]

- What?

Seth won, but by disqualification,

which is why he's not Universal Champion tonight.

- Onlookers screaming that Roman can't beat

Seth 'Freakin' Rollins.

- The Shield is still very special to a lot of people,

but I think I can speak for all of us.

It's our baby.

There's never been a group like it.

As far as a bunch of no name guys

becoming the backbone of an industry

and because the love was so strong,

it's almost like a divorce.

- Good?

- I'm happy with it, yeah.

- Yes, yeah?

- I'm happy with it.

zit was a [bleep], uh,

it was a match full of moments.

I was able to continue my win streak over Roman,

so I was very happy about that,

but Roman and I is a WrestleMania match.

It's a WrestleMania main event.

It's not meant for the Royal Rumble.

- These two guys could have a match anytime.

I feel like they're always going to be intertwined.

- You know, as much as they might have competitive nature

now between them, I don't think Seth would be

where he is without Roman, and Roman wouldn't be

where he is without Seth.

- The biggest tag team match in WrestleMania history.

Cody Rhodes joins forces with Seth 'Freakin' Rollins to battle

Roman Reigns and The Rock.

- Guys like Roman and Seth, you know, have to always be on

because wherever they go, they're going to be looked

at as the main event guys.

There's very, very few guys that can pull that off.

I mean, Undertaker's one,

you know, John Cena is another,

The Rock's another.

I mean, there's very few guys that have figured out the art

form and really, really hang on to their spot

no matter what happens.

- We're gonna smash those fools.

We run this business.

[Seth 'Freakin' Rollins music]

- The time for talk is over.

I'm ready for a fight.

- It is finally go time.

[fireworks]

- WrestleMania's here.

- Man, I think when you look back

at Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins-

[bell rings]

- Here we go.

Former Shield brethren.

- Oh.

- -I mean, it's certainly going to be a rivalry

that has defined a generation.

- Roman Reigns isn't over the night that Seth Rollins

turned on him when they broke up The Shield.

- And I think this tag match is really another

chapter in the story.

It's down a wild streak that I never really expected.

Me teaming with Cody Rhodes.

Roman teaming with The Rock.

- Rollins driven into the steps.

- It's a really special moment.

- Pedigrees

People's elbow.

Cover by The Rock.

This has got to be crushing for Cody.

Crushing for Rollins.

We'll see you guys tomorrow night at WrestleMania Sunday.

- WrestleMania 40 was the culmination of a lot of long

term storytelling that is kind of unheard of in the modern WWE.

- Coming up next, it is the main event of WrestleMania.

Cody Rhodes against Roman Reigns.

- But the story between Seth and Roman Reigns

in some ways is the coolest one.

[The Shield's music]

- What the?

- Guys.

♪

- Oh my God.

Seth Rollins decked out in the old Shield gear.

- Roman couldn't resist getting revenge on Seth Rollins,

even though it put his title in jeopardy

in the match against Cody Rhodes.

[crowd cheers]

- I made a personal choice that night.

I struck him in the back with that chair, just like he did me

ten years earlier, and I lost everything that night.

And I'd do it again.

- His crowd is electric tonight.

- The business is hotter than it's ever been,

and none of it is possible without me and Roman.

Two guys along with Ambrose, who came in to change the industry.

And now you look at it 12 years later.

- This was absolutely insane.

- We did pretty well.

The Visionary versus the Tribal Chief.

Brother versus brother.

- When you think of Roman and Seth, they're both so different,

but they're both two people that are leading the way in WWE

and inspiring the next generation.

- The amount of history they've had from the night

they debuted to where they are now.

- Oh my God.

- This could be happening five years down the line still,

and I think they're always going to be fueled by

wanting to be better than the other.

- It's Seth Rollins.

A Pedigree.

- That's why we are where we are,

because it didn't just stop at The Shield.

We kept pushing.

But there's really only one reason why I'm better than him-

because I wanted to be.

- Two men who grew up

in this business together.

- We're always going to look at each other with an understanding

that we couldn't have done this without each other.

We've just got a bond that I think is unbreakable.