Seth Rollins Tells the Story Behind His Wrestlemania Black Eye

Seth Rollins arrived at The Rich Eisen Show this week sporting a black eye that has refused to fade five days after WrestleMania, and the WWE star spent his guest spot walking Rich through exactly how a top-rope spear from Bron Breakker turned into the most photographed shiner of his post-match week. The bruise was still vivid enough that Rich opened the segment by asking, point blank, whether he was looking at a shiner.

Rollins did not bother covering for the makeup team. "It's there. Yeah, it's under there. They did a good job trying to cover it up this morning," he told Rich, before crediting Breakker with the damage and offering an unusual culprit. "It was his foot. His foot gave it to me when he speared me. Figure that out."

Rich, who has watched a lifetime of football tackles cross-pollinate with pro wrestling choreography, pressed Rollins on the physics of the moment, noting that a spear is supposed to be a body-lunging, diving-tackle motion aimed at the midsection. Rollins agreed, then explained that Breakker had so much speed coming down the ramp that the move turned acrobatic on impact.

"This lunatic came so fast down the ramp, when he flipped as he speared me his foot hit me in the eye," Rollins said. "I was on the ground writhing in pain because I couldn't breathe wondering why my eye was also swelling."

Rich offered a half-joking diagnosis, calling Breakker a man who does not know his own speed or strength and is operating on autopilot in the scariest way. Rollins did not disagree. He described being double-tapped on the way down before he even hit the mat, and on a closer look at the bruise wondered aloud whether the impact came from a big toe or a heel as Breakker scorpioned over him.

The receipt came on Monday's Raw. "I whacked him right in the back of the head and busted him open with a chair," Rollins said, framing the chair shot as a small measure of revenge. He also acknowledged it backfired. "I made the man bleed his own blood. That's always a great feeling, but I think it worked against me. I think it really just fired him up."

Rich could not let the phrasing pass without comment, riffing on whose blood Breakker would otherwise be bleeding. Rollins closed on the part of the job that does not appear in the script. He admitted he expected the swelling to be gone by now and shrugged off the lingering mark as the hazard of the deal, noting that scars come with the territory and that, at minimum, his wife appreciates them.