Seth Rollins shocked the Pro -Wrestling world (or at least most of it) on Saturday when he revealed that his reported knee injury was not real. Although most of them were convinced that he was rightly injured, Rollins shed his crutches and his leg support before putting his briefcase “money in the bank” on CM Punk to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship in the closing moments of Summerslam.
If it were to Bill Simmons, the “List of the century”Wouldn't just be limited to the square circle.
In the episode of Monday of The Bill Simmons PodcastThe Ringer founder discussed the stunt, who falsified the rolling line during a game during a match in an injury WWE main event on Saturday evening In July with initial reports that point out that he would miss a long time to recover before he returned his breathtaking return on Saturday. Simmons was a feeling that he shared on social media after Summerslam on Saturday evening, and said he would love that professional athletes can do the same stunt.
“It was the best injury I've ever seen in my life,” he said. “And it made me think, I only wish that this could happen in other sports.”
Seth Rollins was just pulling my favorite wrestling trick out of the long-play injury to steal the unmoted title of punk. We really need an NBA star to try this in the playoffs.
– Bill Simmons (@Billsimmons) August 3, 2025
Simmons said that his social media contribution triggered several answers about Paul Pierces notorious wheelchair scene in 2008 for which the die -hard Celtics fan, for which he had no comeback, admitted. He also said that some football teams will be creative with their injury reports to maintain competitive advantages, but his preference would be more dramatic.
“It would be great if someone should just miss the game and then suddenly appeared,” he said. “Like a playoff game. It's like: 'Josh Allen, he's out, he was scratched, he will be the third quarterback.' And then he only runs a hundred percent and only with the other team.
Obviously there is a reason why professional league rules are available against these practices and it is not difficult to imagine that a great gaming scandal results from such a situation. On the other hand, if sport is only entertainment, it would be difficult to assert itself against Josh's potential to appear in a game on crutches, just to delete them in a dramatic way.
Why stop there in this case? Let us introduce an NFL version of the money in the bank file pocket in which Wrestler have the opportunity to get a championship match for a moment -while we are there.