How Seth Rollins pulled off the biggest injury ruse in WWE history

FIVE MINUTES, 10 SECONDS.

That's however agelong CM Punk held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship connected Aug. 2 astatine SummerSlam after defeating Gunther.

During Punk's celebration, Seth Rollins emerged connected the entranceway ramp connected crutches alongside his manager, Paul Heyman. For a moment, it appeared that Rollins was sending a informing changeable to his rival to ticker his back. But arsenic Rollins turned to marque his exit, helium paused to adhd to the drama.

"Honestly, I didn't cognize however the assemblage was going to instrumentality what I would see a treble moment," Rollins told ESPN. "When you perceive the euphony of the feline who's got the Money successful the Bank briefcase, your contiguous absorption is, 'Here comes the cash-in.' But erstwhile you spot idiosyncratic travel retired connected crutches, you wonderment what's happening and if we're mounting up for thing down the road."

With his backmost turned to the audience, Rollins dropped the crutches, which fell perfectly astatine his sides. He swiftly removed the genu brace and ran to the ringing to the deafening roar from a amazed 53,161 fans astatine MetLife Stadium who realized what was happening.

The "Ruse of the Century" was complete. Rollins cashed successful connected Punk to reclaim the WWE World Heavyweight Championship.

A decennary and aggregate satellite championships since his archetypal memorable Money successful the Bank cash-in astatine WrestleMania 31, Rollins had done it again.

This time, however, helium raised the barroom by fooling the audience, household and WWE colleagues into reasoning helium was dealing with a superior genu injury.

"When you person the top cash-in of each time, it's beauteous hard to travel that up," Rollins told ESPN up of his intergender tag squad lucifer with woman Becky Lynch against CM Punk and AJ Lee at Wrestlepalooza successful Indianapolis connected Saturday. "Following myself up was my biggest concern. I had to find a mode to bash it differently, inactive make a immense infinitesimal but beryllium capable to abstracted the 2 successful a mode and marque them equal."

At WrestleMania 31 successful 2015, Rollins pulled disconnected what has been called the "Heist of the Century" erstwhile helium cashed successful his Money successful the Bank briefcase during the main lawsuit lucifer betwixt Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar. The one-on-one lucifer astatine Levi's Stadium successful Santa Clara, California, became an impromptu triple-threat lucifer and Rollins would triumph his archetypal WWE World Heavyweight Championship to adjacent the amusement successful stunning fashion.

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