Peter Rosenberg didn’t maintain again on the latest episode of Low cost Warmth, the place he clashed with wrestling journalists Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez over the legitimacy—and brilliance—of Seth Rollins’ Unreal damage angle main as much as WWE SummerSlam.
The controversy ignited after Meltzer and Alvarez mocked WWE’s Unreal Season 2 trailer for suggesting the Rollins damage storyline had fooled everybody. Rosenberg fired again exhausting, calling out the Observer duo for being too deep within the weeds to grasp what actually hit for followers and expertise alike. Rosenberg performed the clip the place Meltzer dismissed the concept anybody actually believed the damage was actual. However Rosenberg got here again swinging.
“In the event you had been following wrestling in any respect, you at the least heard that this might be an angle. The concept that, like they fooled everybody, they didn’t.”
“You guys are so up the a* of professional wrestling that you just assume regular followers… even hardcore followers… knew,”* he snapped. “I used to be there, me and lots of different individuals had no thought it was an angle.”
He even revealed that he had dinner with Rollins the evening earlier than SummerSlam and nonetheless didn’t know what was actual and what wasn’t. The angle fooled him and even Massive E, who debated it with Rosenberg proper earlier than the massive reveal.
“I actually thought that the Seth damage angle main as much as SummerSlam was top-of-the-line works and type of reveals that we’ve seen in a really very long time.”
Stat Man Greg had Rosenberg’s again and mentioned Meltzer’s take wasn’t about superior wrestling information—it was simply fortunate rumor mill chatter.
“He heard a rumor, and ran with that rumor… it turned out to be true, nevertheless it wasn’t prefer it got here from their excessive grasp of wrestling information.”
SGG argued that this type of blurred actuality is precisely why wrestling works so properly when finished proper:
“It triggers that half in wrestling followers’ mind of like, okay, is now what I’m getting actual? That hook that folks have been biting on since earlier than I used to be born… I don’t know, however I don’t care. I’m gonna watch.”
The controversy lays naked an actual fracture between wrestling’s media insiders and the viewers expertise. Did Unreal nail one of many biggest swerves in latest reminiscence—or are insiders proper to downplay it?
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