E1070 - Going Deeper with Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch

Summary

The Viall Files: E1070 – Going Deeper with Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch

Date: January 28, 2026
Host: Nick Viall (with Natalie Joy and co-hosts)
Guests: Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez) and Becky Lynch (Rebecca Quinn)
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Overview

This candid "Going Deeper" episode features wrestling superstars (and married couple) Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch as they sit down with Nick Viall and his co-hosts. The conversation traverses their careers, the nuances of their wrestling personas, the behind-the-scenes realities of WWE, their journey as a couple, parenting on the road, and aspirations beyond the ring. The episode is a funny, honest, and insightful look into blending love, family, and life in the high-octane world of professional wrestling.

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Wrestling Identities & Name Origins

(03:15–08:41)

• Stage Names vs. Real Names:

  • Seth explains the use of his real name (Colby Lopez) vs. "Seth Rollins". Most people know him as Seth, and he rarely uses Colby except privately with Becky.
  • Becky (Rebecca Quinn) shares, "I think I once called you Seth very early on." (04:00)
  • Both reflect how WWE owns the rights to their ring names, which led to creative (and sometimes arbitrary) name selection.
  • Seth’s name was chosen with WWE legend Dusty Rhodes:
    • "He had his little glasses... he liked Seth because he spoke with a lisp, and it was funny for him to say 'theft.' He's like, that's it, baby. Seth Rollins." (04:14)
  • Becky’s name arose from a mix of her suggestions and WWE's requirements. She preferred to keep “Becky” for continuity:
    • "I kind of wanted to keep a bit of my own name so that it's less confusing than Seth." (06:09)

• Changing Industry Attitudes:

  • Early WWE required unique, company-owned names, not even allowing Seth to keep "Tyler Black".
  • More recent administration is more flexible about name rights and revenue splits.
  • "People at the top of the time were just very like, it's a slippery slope... now, it's different." (07:39)

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Wrestling as Reality TV: Artifice and Authenticity

(08:41–14:23)

• Wrestling & Reality TV:

  • Nick likens wrestling to the "OG" reality TV. Becky pushes back:
    • "It's supposed to be shrouded in mystery, you know. Whereas I feel like reality tv... the ultimate thing... is that it's real." (08:41)
  • Seth discusses the intrigue of "the gray area where you don't really know whether it's real." (09:05)
  • They note how modern wrestling has peeled back the curtain (especially via Netflix's "Unreal") and now storylines have to balance performance and authenticity.

• Performance & Audience Dynamic:

  • Audience reaction is unpredictable and essential.
  • Injury risk is real: Seth details rotator cuff surgery, ACL tear, jaw break (12:00–12:56).
  • "There is certainly an element of planning... but there's also an intense level of improvisation and storytelling that is pretty much unmatched." – Seth (13:50)

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Getting Started in Wrestling

(14:23–19:17)

• Training & Early Days:

  • Early focus is on "cool moves" rather than storytelling (Becky, 14:35).
  • Seth’s Origin Story:
    • Inspired by seeing wrestling live at age 4, became obsessed as a teen during the "Attitude Era," did backyard wrestling, started acting/public speaking classes, and got trained right after high school (15:07–16:39).
  • Becky's Path:
    • Watched wrestling with her brother, reconnected with it via Mick Foley's promos, joined Fergal Devitt/Finn Balor's wrestling school, wrestled across Ireland, England, and Canada (16:40–18:21).

• First WWE Matches:

  • Seth’s big debut: 2012 TLC match with Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose (18:27). The energy was “insane” and “this is what I worked for.” (19:08–20:34)

• Walkout Songs:

  • WWE wants to own all music; there's limited choice—“they want to make money off it” (21:12).
  • Becky recently got the band The Wonder Years to do her entrance music after persistence (21:46).

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Storytelling, Improvisation, and Audience Influence

(23:57–27:43)

• Storylines & Championships:

  • Success and loss in wrestling is "story first"—not about ego but what serves audience best.
  • "I get older, I push back a lot less. I found it's futile… I'm now starting to realize you just gotta make the best." – Becky (24:28)
  • "The pushback's not like, I need to keep this title. The pushback is like, what's the best story?" – Seth (24:48)

• Moments of Improvisation:

  • Audience hijacks and in-ring injuries force improvisation.
  • Seth recalls the Daniel Bryan "Yes!" Movement and breaking John Cena's nose:
    • "He had to continue... It was a bad break. Like, it was sideways... So much blood. But he finished the whole match." (26:04–27:43)

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Relationship Origins and Navigating Love & Work

(29:22–39:26)

• First Impressions & Friendship:

  • Met at work in 2014; Becky was an extra, wearing "clubwear" – "I had this piece of material on...hair extensions...and eyelashes that were closer to my eyebrows than my eyelids." (29:30)
  • "Her hair was bright orange at the time and her skin was also spray tanned to match" – Seth (30:20)
  • Initial friendship, lots of talking: Becky's first chat "was like 40 minutes, legit" (31:21)

• Transition to Dating:

  • Romantic spark developed at end of 2018. Seth: "I kind of want to kiss her in the mouth." (31:57)
  • Navigated concerns about mixing work and romance. Becky briefly broke it off due to doubts about Seth's views on monogamy.

• Turning Points:

  • Becky’s attempt to end things convinced Seth of the rightness of their relationship: "As soon as she said, I'm out, I was like, oh no, you are not. You are in." (33:49)
  • After some soul-searching and time apart, Becky realized her feelings during a wrestling signing, leading to reconciliation (36:55).
  • Quick engagement: Within months, Seth bought a ring and proposed; originally planned a 2020 wedding but delayed due to COVID.

• Workplace Relationships in WWE:

  • WWE accommodates couples—scheduling and support are strong.
  • "You spend way more time with these people than you would your family or your friends at home." – Seth (40:17)
  • WWE sometimes uses real-life couples for storylines (as with them), but not always.

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Family, Parenting, and Wrestling on the Road

(43:46–51:20)

• Starting a Family:

  • "God, I felt like I was ready real quick." – Becky (44:02)
  • Pandemic timing provided an opportunity; they traveled everywhere with their daughter post-birth, facilitated by a trusted bus driver and his wife as a traveling nanny.

• Managing New Parenthood:

  • Breastfeeding, sleep deprivation, and postpartum depression (which hit after breastfeeding ended) were challenges. Help from friends and open conversations with colleagues helped Becky: "It took me a while to realize what was going on." (46:44)
  • Seth describes being impressed by Becky’s resilience: "You women are superheroes... having to navigate that, be a mom, be a wife, be a performer... I've never been more impressed than watching my wife be a mother." (47:33)

• Trailblazing for Women in Wrestling:

  • Seth credits Becky as a pioneer—first woman to headline WrestleMania, then have a baby and return to an elite level.
  • "She showed people and women and young girls in our industry that you can do both, and you can do it, like, awesomely." (51:21)

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Reflections on Parenthood & Change

(52:42–55:36)

• How Parenthood Changed Them:

  • Seth: "Patience was the biggest one." (52:44) He describes wrestling's inherent selfishness and how having a child taught him real selflessness.
  • "I learned really, truly what it meant for someone to mean more than you." (54:26)
  • Becky and Nick discuss how family reframes priorities and grounds happiness.

• Notable Quotes:

  • Becky: "I always felt like it was something that you'd see on Hallmark movies... but then you're like, oh, no, this really is everything. This is all that's important." (55:36)
  • Seth: "It's not about always leading the way and making the decisions and being the boss. It's actually about putting other people's needs before your own." (54:53)

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Life After Wrestling & Future Dreams

(56:12–57:59)

• Aspirations Beyond WWE:
  • Becky: "I just love performing. So whatever I can do to continue telling stories and to perform, that's what I want to do." (56:35) Acting, e.g., "Star Trek".
  • Seth: Plans to stay connected with WWE or sports commentary ("I got a part-time gig doing that—Chicago Bears.") but also open to behind-the-scenes roles.
    • "It's my number one passion. So I feel like I'll be a part of the WWE family for quite some time." (56:45)

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Notable Moments & Quotes

• Seth on Ring Names & Dusty Rhodes:
  "Anything that comes out of Dusty's mouth is gold. He's one of the greatest talkers in the history of our business." (05:06)
• Becky on Handling Rejection as a Babyface:
  "When you're supposed to be beloved… when they reject that, then they're rejecting you, you know, so it feels like it burns more." (11:28)
• Becky on Postpartum:
  "Postpartum depression can hit you once you're done breastfeeding... it took me a while to realize what was going on." (46:44)
• Seth on Becky as a Trailblazer:
  "She's truly a trailblazer… she showed people and women and young girls in our industry that you can do both, and you can do it, like, awesomely." (51:21)

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Final Thoughts

This episode offers a vulnerable and entertaining look at the lives behind two of WWE's biggest stars. Seth and Becky are refreshingly honest about the messy intersections of identity, ambition, love, injury, and family—making their story as compelling outside the ring as inside it.

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Key Segments

• Ring Names & Industry Changes: 03:15–08:41
• Wrestling as Reality TV: 08:41–14:23
• Getting Into Wrestling: 14:23–19:17
• Storytelling & Audience Dynamics: 23:57–27:43
• Relationship Journey: 29:22–39:26
• Parenting on the Road: 43:46–51:20
• Reflections & Future Dreams: 52:42–57:59

Listen to this episode for genuine laughter, behind-the-curtain wrestling insights, and intimate lessons on making love and work coexist at the highest level.

Transcript

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[Becky Lynch]

You're crazy.

[Interviewer]

Seth, Becky, welcome to the show.

[Interviewer/Host]

So excited to have you guys.

[Becky Lynch]

Thanks for having us.

[Interviewer]

Do you go by Seth or do you go by Colby?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Well, who's talking to me? More people in the world know me by Seth Rollins. Colby Lopez is my government name. It's a great name, but I use it for nothing. Nothing. Zero. Things I've contemplated, like, changing. You know, you have, like, Rebecca Quinn on your Instagram and your socials now. I'm like, maybe I should change. Maybe I should be Colby Lopez, AKA Seth Rollins. I don't know.

[Interviewer]

It was really endearing in the Unreal Doc, you know, when you were just like, well, can I. Is it weird if I call him Kobe when you guys are at home alone with each other? Is he Colby or is he Seth?

[Becky Lynch]

Oh, he's Colby. I think I once called you Seth very early on, just, like, out of.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Habit, like, to my face.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host]

And then you're like, ooh, hated that.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah. I would be so weird out if you called me that.

[Interviewer]

How did you come up with Seth Rollins? Because it's, like, such a. Like, it's a. Like a name.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

It's just a name.

[Interviewer]

Anyone could have that name.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

It's a cool name I made. See, I don't know that it's a cool name. I made a list. When I got hired to WWE in 2010, I had to sign my life away, and they wanted to own your character, so I had to come up with a new name. I was Tyler Black before that. That was my other alias, but I had to use a different name so WWE could own it. And I came up with a list. I had first names. I had last names. I took it into the American dream. Dusty Rhodes. And he went through them. He had his little glasses, and he's looking at them and he's saying them all out loud. And he. He liked. I think he liked Seth because he spoke with a lisp, and it was funny for him to say theft. He's like, that's it, baby. Seth Rollins. I see it now. On a Machia Wrestlemania. Seth Rollins. That's it, Method. We done. You got it, baby. Go do your thing. Anything that comes out of Dusty's mouth. Mouth is gold. He's one of the greatest talkers in the history of our business.

[Becky Lynch]

So, yeah, both of you have gone.

[Interviewer/Host]

By so many different names.

[Becky Lynch]

Is that.

[Interviewer/Host]

How common is that in your space? You know, I feel like in, you know, like, the musical space, most people, you know, start out with a name and then they're like 10 years in. Like, I hate that name, but I got to keep going by it because that's what everyone knows me as.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, I'm a big fan of a moniker because I hate my name. I. Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Rebecca Quinn.

[Becky Lynch]

No, I love Rebecca Quinn.

[Interviewer]

That's a great name.

[Becky Lynch]

Rebecca Quinn rocks. Yeah. What a great name. Becky Lynch. Lynch. Lynch, I just said, doesn't roll off the tongue.

[Interviewer]

And how did you get that name so harsh?

[Becky Lynch]

Well, unlike Colby over here, I was way more often on the chopping block, so they. I came up with names that I thought were super cool, and then they kept saying, no, no, no, and then eventually they just got like, a combination of Becky and an Irish name, and lynch was one of the ones that they approved. And I kind of wanted to keep a bit of my own name so that it's less confusing than Seth.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Two different names.

[Interviewer]

Seth and Kobe.

[Becky Lynch]

You know, that at least whenever the time comes that I'm done, I can still be Rebecca, Becky, and then lynch. And I didn't feel like I could push back, so I was just like.

[Interviewer/Host]

Okay, what is, like, the criteria for choosing a name? Like, if you know them saying who is them that are.

[Becky Lynch]

That are choosing who is them? That is the question. Who is them? I don't know, actually. Who is. Who was them?

[Interviewer/Host]

They're like, I've only spoken to a black screen.

[Becky Lynch]

I don't know who or is them.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

It was a combination between our legal department and our creative team. I mean, you had to have a name that nobody else had. So if there was a Brian, you couldn't be a Brian. If there was a, you know, your last name had to be different. You know, there was no Seth and there was no Rollins, which was, you know, two of the reasons I had the names on the list. And. And when I got signed, you couldn't. Colby was not an option. I couldn't use it. I couldn't use a different spelling of Colby. I couldn't be Kobe. I couldn't do anything that was close to it because they were so, like, anal about, we need to own this character, and you can't take any of it with you. So that's just how it was back then. They Were very. Is different now.

[Interviewer/Host]

How long ago is this?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

This was 15 years ago. Yeah, 15 years ago. The people in charge were like, no, we need to own every facet of this character in perpetuity. You can't have any of it. So even Tyler Black. I tried to sell them Tyler Black because I wanted to keep it because I had made a name off of Tyler Black. Yeah, I tried, but they wouldn't, they wouldn't let. They would not buy it.

[Interviewer]

What changed?

[Becky Lynch]

Administration.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Administration? Yeah, I suppose they just, they became. They got new people in. They figured out, you know, oh, we can actually do a 50, 50 deal on it. We can figure something out. Like they would just, you know, if they just. People at the top of the time were just very like, it's a slippery slope. So we're not going to even go down that road. Here's how it's going to be. Figure it out, deal with it later.

[Interviewer]

That's fascinating. I mean, I mean it's really fascinating the industry you guys are in. I mean, I remember the days of Hulk Hogan. Bam Bam Bigelow.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Bam Bam.

[Interviewer]

Jake the Snake, the Ultimate Warrior. And obviously we love like reality tv. Our entire audience loves T and just like the behind the scenes. And I feel like wrestling is like the OG reality TV of an industry that's really taken off. And I love the Unreal show because it really peels back the layer of the production of it. Because like I remember back in the day when I was a kid, it was like you didn't talk about whether it was real or not.

[Becky Lynch]

You know, can we go back to the layer now? My mind is like. Because you said that it's the original reality tv, but I feel like it's like the opposite of reality tv.

[Interviewer]

In what way?

[Becky Lynch]

Well, because reality. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, you're right. But because it was supposed to be shrouded in mystery, you know. Whereas I feel like reality tv, the essence of it or like the ultimate thing of it is that it's real. And I don't want to use the F word about wrestling, but I don't know.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Ah, gosh, yeah, I don't know that it's the og, it's the OG in a weird way because I feel like the most interesting stuff has always been the stuff that's behind the scenes that is real. Where there's that. There's that gray area where you don't really know whether it's real because you're.

[Becky Lynch]

Supposed to believe that it's real. Right. All of us, I Mean, originally. Originally with wrestling. So now I'm like, oh.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Your mind?

[Becky Lynch]

My mind. My mind is a little bit blown.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't. I mean, once the lid started to come off of it, probably in the mid-90s or so, it certainly became far more interesting what was going on behind the scenes or what was real as opposed to, like, what existed in the storytelling part of it. And then it became. Nowadays it's like, you know, because we've peeled the curtain back so much, especially with this unreal show. It's like, how do we leverage? Cause you still want people to believe that there's some reality to it, but now that they see everything, how do you create conflict with that reality? Like, how do you tell a story? How do you make it interesting with that reality? And. And so it's a totally different paradigm for us and how we navigate this world and tell our stories while still doing this sort of fake fighting thing. I don't know any other way to.

[Interviewer]

It's. And it's really fascinating because you. You know, in the episode one, they were talking about how you were, like, gonna turn heel. And for those who don't know what that means, it's like a villain, which is very, you know, common in reality, the villain. And it's just. I thought it was really fascinating because, like, you guys, you will set up the storyline, you'll have a plan, but, like, you. You don't know how the audience is going to react. Right? And then. And I imagine in fights, you guys have a plan, but the plan often maybe goes off the rails. And even though, like, it's fake fighting, it seems like this is a very physically demanding sport where, like, injuries happen and, like, people get hurt. And it's just like. I mean, it's fake, but it. It really seems like you guys are putting your heart and soul into this and, like, the human side, I mean. I mean, for you guys, how disconnected can you get from the characters versus, like, you are living this experience? And just the audience's reaction seems to be such a big part of your characters and your livelihood. Like, it must be kind of. I don't know, kind of a mind trip, you know, juggling the two.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, I. I think it's easier to juggle the two when you're a bad guy because you don't associate that with yourself. Right. You know what I mean? Whereas when you're supposed to be beloved and the good guy, you want to bring the best parts of you that are you, and when they reject that, then they're rejecting you, you know, so it feels like it burns more.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Becky Lynch]

You know what?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you're. Because when you're a bad guy, like, no one. Everyone's a hero of their own story in real life, right? So no one. Everyone walks along and tells their own story, but no one thinks of themselves as the villain in real life. You know, you think of yourself as the.

[Interviewer]

The.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You're the. You're the star of the show, you know, and so you're the main character and you're the good guy and everything. You know, everybody's doing you wrong. And so in real life, you process that way. But when you're playing a villain, it feels like you're playing a character, whereas, like, she's saying she's right. When you're playing a, you know, a protagonist, a hero, a baby face, you kind of feel like it's you. And so, yeah, when you don't get the affirmation that you're the actual. That they. You are a fan favorite, it feels like a personal attack. You feel like you're being easy to get in your head, whether if you're a. If you're. Yeah, very easy to get in your head. But it is. There is a. Definitely an element of realism to kind of play off what you were saying. I mean, I'm nursing a. I just got rotator cuff surgery two months ago that I. From a injury that I suffered in the ring. You know, I've done my acl, I've broken my jaw, separated both my shoulders, meniscus on my left knee. You know, I've got countless injuries and stuff like that. So there's definitely an element of reality to that part of it. No doubt about it. The physical nature, things do go off the rails. Commonly. The audience is. They're a participant in the show. They're sort of a character in the show because their opinion of. They get to react in real time to what's happening. And the best of us, we're able to sort of predict that reaction, which is what we're doing is we're telling the story. We're going, okay, here's what we think the reaction is going to be. And, you know, most of the time, we're pretty good at it, but there are certainly times where the reaction is not at all what you thought. And if you're out of touch with your audience and what they're doing, your response has to be in real time, and you have to be able to change that to, you know, flip the switch so to Speak and to get them to sort of ride the ride that you want them to be on. So, yeah, there is certainly an element of planning and like, pre production that goes into it, but there's also an intense level of improvisation and storytelling that is pretty much, I would say, unmatched in any other form of live entertainment. I stand up comedy is the only one that I would like, kind of liken it to that maybe like live concerts, but anything else, it's. There's. There's really no other art form that like, kind of does it the way we do it.

[Interviewer/Host]

When you first got into this sport, what was that training like of kind of putting these stories together, but also like the physical side of everything?

[Becky Lynch]

When we first got into it, when we first got into it, I don't think any. We weren't considering stories, we were just considering moves. We're like, ooh, what's a cool move?

[Interviewer/Host]

And trying to, like, come up with your own being original.

[Becky Lynch]

And how do you get the audience to respond to a move? I. I certainly. I don't know about you. I wasn't thinking about storytelling. Well into my career in wwe. I was like, how can I do the best cool moves?

[Interviewer]

How did you guys, both of you, get into it?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I was a fan growing up, kind of, you know, you mentioned a lot of those guys. I was a fan of those guys growing up. My dad took me to a show and I was like 4 years old, and I just became fascinated by the idea that these were, like, real life superheroes. You know, Hogan and Warrior and Legion of Doom. And then there were real life villains, like these people that you could reach out and touch as opposed to, like comic book heroes like Batman or Spider man or whatever. Like, that never really resonated with me the way, like, oh, he's right there. Like, Hulk Hogan. Sweat could fly on me. You know, like, he's right there. He really beats up these bad guys. So I became obsessed with it. And then when I was a teenager, like, probably right before went to high school, the attitude era is blowing up. So then you've got like, Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Triple hd, Generation X and all the, you know, Mick Foley. All these guys. Yeah, wrestling is just massive at the time. It's sort of like, you know, invaded pop culture. And also it's the advent of the Internet and you can connect with people from all over the world. And also, like, we, like, backyard wrestling became a big thing. So me and my friends started, like, doing it in our backyard. So we did it. We put on shows, we'd give out flyers. And I was just obsessed. I told my folks, like, I was like, I'm done playing basketball, man. This is what I'm gonna do for the rest of my life. So in high school, I started, like, taking acting classes, taking public speaking classes, got gym memberships so I could, you know, get in some sort of shape. And then I was doing these backyard shows for my friends. And once I got turned 18, I was like, I'm gonna get trained. And so I went and got trained.

[Interviewer]

How about you, Rebecca?

[Becky Lynch]

So I grew up again watching professional wrestling, but and loved it. And me and my brother would wrestle on our mom's bed and stuff and put on little shows. And then like around 8 or 9, I fell out of it and was like, that's for babies. And then when the Attitude era blew up, my brother would watch it and I would make fun of him and I was like, it's all fake. And he'd be like, no, it's actually really good. And I'd be like, yeah, whatever. And then I would watch Mick Foley cut these promos. And I was just drawn in by his ability to tell a story and his way of speaking. And, you know, it was the first time that I really got invested and I wanted him to win. And then I. So I tell my brother, just call me when Mick Foley's on. And then that was it. Then I was in. And then I was hooked. And then around 15, I was failing PE, I was up to no good. I was a bit of a degenerate. And I decided that I was going to get my life on track. And that coincided with Finn Balor, Fergal Devitt opening a wrestling school, like, about an hour away from me. So then me and my brother went down, took the train, the hour long train every week, and walked the 30 minutes to this little wrestling school in the countryside in Ireland. Well, not the countryside, in Bray. Felt like the countryside, but. And then, yeah, I would just do that every Sunday. And then I'd go over to England and I'd wrestle in wrestling camps over there. And then when I was 17, I dropped out of college and I moved off to Canada and I wrestled over there. And so anyway, that was how I started.

[Interviewer]

And do you remember your first match in wwe?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

So it's tough to say because when I signed in, WWE was 2010, I went to developmental, so I was in the developmental system called Florida Championship Wrestling for two years, which eventually became nxt. So it's all kind of a part of wwe. I Moved up to the main roster in November of 2012 and my first official match was a six man tag at Survivor Series. Sorry TLC, it was December of 2012. Is myself, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose against Ryback, Daniel Bryan and Kane. That was my first like main roster featured match. Like I kind of. But all the other ones before that, the developmental matches, I don't really remember those.

[Interviewer]

Was that kind of a real surreal moment? Like, you know, I can only imagine like as a kid watching it, like, like it just must feel. Did you have like a I can't believe I'm here type of moment?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, I mean we debuted the month before at Survivor Series where we like jumped CM Punk or. No, we jumped Ryback and John Cena was in the match as well, I believe. And like this was the main event of a major pay per view for wwe and immediately like we're the biggest thing that's being talked about like the next day. And I remember feeling like, wow, this is insane. Like we're finally here. Like everything I'd worked for in my whole life and now like we just kicked the door down and I get to do my dream. Like I get to live my dream, you know. So I do remember feeling like that and like we had this really sick entrance where we'd come through the crowd to kind of this pretty badass music. And our first pay per view match that I mentioned was in the Barclays center. And I think it, it was definitely the first pay per view at the Barclays center in Brooklyn. Might have been like the first event we might have opened. Barclays Center. I, you know, don't quote me on that, but I remember feeling the place was sold out. The energy was like insane. And I was like this, this is what I wanted. This was what I worked for and you know, suffered for and spent thousands of hours in the car and you know, slept in my car and you know, was poor and all that stuff. Like that's, this is what I, this is. Well, it was all worth it for that moment.

[Interviewer]

That's a cool story. I imagine the walkout and like having a walkout song. I feel like start started with wrestling and maybe it was, I don't know, I guess boxing or other sports, but.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Like, oh, it was Michael Hayes and the Fabulous Freebirds did it before anybody. And then, you know, they, they picked up on it. WWF picked up on it in the early 80s I would say, and real American and. But yeah, yeah, Michael P.S. hayes, he was genius, genius, revolutionary, ahead of his time.

[Interviewer]

Is that that must Be like a fun moment every time you're walking out. Do you get to pick your own songs, or is that also, like, a collaboration between.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

There's a lot of. A lot of them involved with that. Yeah, yeah. Because they want to own your song, too.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Okay. So it's not. You don't just get to pick. Oh, you know what? Let's call AC DC up and get it. Get it. Get a track. You know, Metallica. Let's see what. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Yeah, yeah, that's available. No, they want to own it. They want to be able to sell it. They want to make money off it. So has to be an original track. A lot of times you have to use their artists, who they. You know, they have, like, a house, people that build it or whatever. So that's what I did with my current song. She actually was able to get one of our favorite bands to do her.

[Becky Lynch]

I just got new entrance music, and it was a process. It was a process. But we're friends with a band called the Wonder Years. And I was coming back, and I text them. I was like, would you do my entrance music? If I can get it approved. They were like, yes, absolutely. Two days later, they came back with this banger of a song, and I was like, oh, damn. And then it's going through the process of making sure that WWE owns it and how that works, but. So kind of. Did I kind of pick out my own entrance? You sort of did, yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Sort of, yeah.

[Becky Lynch]

What was.

[Interviewer/Host]

Do you remember the conversation you had with your father or your brother after your first, like, big match? Obviously, your dad took you at four. You trained with your brother.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

No, I do remember when I won my first world Championship, which would have been in 2015 at WrestleMania. I don't remember if it was the following. Yes, probably the following week, because I still lived in Iowa. I grew up in Iowa. I remember taking the belt back to. I grew up in this tiny town called Buffalo, and we used to wrestle in my dad's backyard. My dad was a psychopath for letting us do it, but, you know, thank goodness he did. I took the title back to Iowa, to Buffalo, to that backyard with my brother. And my dad and I took a picture of all of us in that yard. So I remember that. And my dad's not, like, he's a jokester. He just tells jokes. Nothing is ever serious to him. So he doesn't. He would never give you, like, he never. He would never. If he told you he was proud of you, he would, like, be Followed with some sort of joke about you, like about how he was totally responsible for all of it or something like that, you know, so he's never been one to like, let you know sentimentally how he felt. But I do feel like he's always had a. A little bit of pride about it. And like, he'll text me occasionally and be like. Because he watches every week, but he'll be like, he'll kill text and be like, is this what's going on with this? Is how's this storyline gonna shake out? And stuff like that. So he keeps tabs on it. But yeah, I, I do have that moment with him taking the title back. And I remember probably finding on my Instagram somewhere, it's way back there with.

[Interviewer]

These things planned out, you know, winning a title. And then, you know, again on the Unreal show, you won the tag team title. And then, like, it felt like right away that was taken away from you.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, taken away from me. There's a lot of corruption in the system right now.

[Interviewer]

But, like, how you know when it's like, hey, you're going to be a champion, and then like, and then you find out that, hey, we have a bigger plan. Is do you guys ever, like, push back or do you have to just let it play out and trust the process? Is it a challenge to, like, as.

[Becky Lynch]

I get older, I push back a lot less? No, I found it's futile. You know, I've pushed back so much, so much in my career, and I'm now starting to realize, ah, you just gotta, you just gotta make the best.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

The pushback, I think I don't want to confuse people. The pushback's not like, I need to keep this title. The pushback is like, what's the best story?

[Interviewer]

Yes.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

What's the best story? Are we doing the right thing? You know what I mean? From a story perspective, from an audience perspective, like, are we telling the right story? Because you have so many creative people in WWE and everyone has kind of a different idea of what the best story is going to be. And so, you know, it's a creative process and it's collaborative process. But yeah, when you're, you know, when you're young, you, you, you're a little more.

[Becky Lynch]

You fight for what you really think is right.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah.

[Becky Lynch]

And then you're wrong so many times, you know, as well, that's the other thing you learn. Like, this isn't going to work. They're hate it. And then it turns out that it's awesome, you know, and you're like, oh, well, all right.

[Interviewer]

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[Interviewer/Host]

Do either of you remember a specific moment of improvisation where afterwards you were like, that was crazy.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, there was a time. I mean, a lot. A lot of times it's like, injuries. When injuries happen. And then, like, yeah, then you're like, what. What do we even do? Like, how does that go? Or there's like, promo segments that just go off the rails because the crowd is so wacky. Like, this wasn't me. But I remember. I remember there was one specific. There's two that jump out to me. One was, there was this story the WWE was telling in. Gosh, it would have been like, 2013, 12, something like that. Anyway, they had neglected this character named Daniel Bryan to the point where the audience wanted him to be the main character so badly. They were in his. Near his hometown in Seattle, and all these big stars are in the ring, and Brian's, like, off to the side. And the crowd just hijacked the whole segment and was chanting for Brian the entire time, and that was pretty sick. And people couldn't cut their promo because, like, they kept just chanting for Brian over it. There was another one, I remember, where, like, one of our friends, Kevin Owens, he was out there doing a segment with. Was it with Elias maybe? And they were playing. They were doing something with, like, a. Because Elias played a guitar and he would sing songs about the town. And he sunk. I think it was actually Sale, too. And he, like, buried the Sonics, who had left to go to. Oh, yeah, to go to Oklahoma City. And the crowd just, like, he couldn't say enough. He couldn't get anything else done during it. Like, injuries are the big ones. Like, I broke John Cena's nose one time in a match and he had to continue. And it was a bad break. Like, it was, like, sideways, like, to where they. They. It was so much blood. I felt so bad. But he finished the whole match.

[Interviewer/Host]

And do you have, like, a conversation after that of, like, sorry.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, my God, I was so apologetic. Not only for, like, the after. For weeks after. I apologize. I probably still apologize to John.

[Interviewer]

Was he pretty gracious about it?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, of course. Because everything, you know, it happens. It's all accidents. No, One's like, I mean, if someone tries to hurt you, that's a different animal.

[Becky Lynch]

But, like, I think you'd always rather be hurt than be the person who hurts them.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Sure.

[Becky Lynch]

As well. That's the other thing.

[Interviewer]

Is there ever, like, if. If someone experiences a real injury, do you feel like the rest are almost like, for all the things that people think is fake, they almost want the credit for, like, really taking the actual injury or, like. Like, does John Cena want people to know? Like, no, my nose is actually broken? As opposed to people thinking there might.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Be a little bit of pride in that, I suppose.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host]

I mean, like, when you got your nose broken and you just had the gut, the blood gushing, and you're just like, hands are up and crowd is going wild.

[Becky Lynch]

Do you.

[Interviewer/Host]

Did it feel like, I hope, like, this is actually real? Like, I'm in pain, everybody?

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah. No, I was so out of it and concussed that I didn't really know what was going on. Like, and there wasn't another option. You know what I mean? Like, it was very tunnel vision, you know? Okay, this is what I gotta do. Okay, the red light's on. Okay, now turn and walk and leave. Okay. Where am I? Wow. What happened?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Wow.

[Becky Lynch]

Who were you?

[Interviewer/Host]

You played it so well.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I mean, it.

[Becky Lynch]

Look. It does.

[Interviewer/Host]

I mean, you guys are incredible actors. And just the way that, like, it looks like it's all part of it.

[Becky Lynch]

I mean, that adrenaline is going and. Yeah, yeah. I can't stop for nothing once the adrenaline's going.

[Interviewer]

You guys are married? How did you guys meet?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. At work. She was up for.

[Becky Lynch]

I was an extra at that time, and I came up. Oh, my God. And back at the time, like, girls, when you were on the road or, like, showed up for tv, you had to be in very nice dresses, but not actually nice, just very slutty dresses. You know, that was considered nice. You had to look club wear. Club wear.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Club wear with how it was described.

[Becky Lynch]

Club wear. So I. You know, I'm trying to fit in, and I'm not, like, girly or, like, good at that stuff at all. So I had this piece of material on and, like, I had. I was trying to stick hair extensions in, and they were hanging out of my head and eyelashes that were closer to my eyebrows than my eyelids. Colby was like, wow, she's beautiful.

[Interviewer]

Who made the first move.

[Becky Lynch]

But I was jacked.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

She was jacked. She was very easy to spot. She was like. Her hair was bright orange at the time, and her skin was also spray Tanned to match her.

[Becky Lynch]

Bright orange.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, well, I, I was the one who talked to her first. I was just. But we were. This was.

[Becky Lynch]

Well, I, I introduced myself.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

She introduced herself as she was, you know, the hierarchy. You're always supposed to go up, go.

[Becky Lynch]

And say hi to everybody, which is so nerve wracking. You know, you're just like, hi, Hi, I'm Rebecca. Hi, I'm Rebecca. And you feel like you're interrupting people and annoying people the whole time. But then you feel like if you don't go up and say, hi, I'm Rebecca, they're going to be like, she's. She's done. She's done. Kick her out of here. I mean, of course they don't. They don't care and they don't notice, but you just didn't want to get that reputation.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

So she came up to introduce herself and I like a plate of food, and I was just eating and I was getting ready for the show, and she was like, I, Rebecca. And I'm like, I'm Colby. What's your story? What's your deal? And she just talked my head off for an hour straight. I wasn't really expecting it. It was like 40 minutes. Legit.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

First time I ever met her, she just. I was like, oh, okay, all right, great.

[Interviewer]

Who asked who on a date?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Like, oh, that was years later.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, years later.

[Becky Lynch]

Years later.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

This was in 2014.

[Becky Lynch]

2014.

[Interviewer]

So you guys, like, friends first?

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, yeah. We didn't start dating until 2019.

[Interviewer]

So, like, when did that. Where it was like, oh, wait, maybe there's something more.

[Becky Lynch]

2018.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

End of 2018. Yeah, into 2018. Early 2019. Like, I don't know, just. I was like, man, maybe maybe, you know, maybe there's something.

[Interviewer/Host]

I kind of want to kiss her maybe.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I kind of want to kiss her in the mouth.

[Interviewer]

That's exactly.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, that's kind of what happened. Yeah, I was kind of like, yeah, you know what? That's. She's pretty hot. What am I? Maybe. Yeah, maybe I kind of want to kiss her a little bit, you know, because we already had the friendship thing down there. And I was like, well, you know, maybe. Maybe the vibes can translate, you know, But I was also like, all I just gotten out of a relationship, and I was like, not looking for anything serious. Classic, Classic.

[Interviewer]

Such a cliche.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Such a cliche. Not looking for anything serious. And so, yeah, I was like, flirting, but, you know, I wasn't sure what I was doing entirely. And then she was like, well, here we are. You gonna do it or not? She put me right on the spot. I was very scared.

[Becky Lynch]

You've been, like, really throwing it out there for a moment, you know? So then I was like, all right, well, if you're throwing it out that hard, let's go.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, I was very scared. I was very nervous. I was like, that's not how I thought it would go, but so, you.

[Interviewer]

Know, you care, you know.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, yeah. Super nervous. So we jumped in and then it was. It was. It was cool.

[Interviewer/Host]

Was there any part that was kind of like. Like, are we mixing business with pleasure?

[Becky Lynch]

Oh, totally. I broke it off very quickly on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I was. I had heard all of his, you know. Oh, I don't think monogamy is for me, and. Yeah, to you. Yeah.

[Interviewer]

So when I met her, I was like, I'm never getting married. Yep.

[Becky Lynch]

All right.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

That's where I was at, you know.

[Interviewer]

It'S just like, I had these relationships. It didn't work out. I, you know, I was, you know, in my 20s. I was, like, romantic. And then it didn't, like, work out, and I was kind of like, you know what? I don't need marriage.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Like, oh, that was it. What's marriage?

[Interviewer]

Yeah, it's, you know, what are we doing? Yeah. And then, you know, you meet someone, you're like, I want to make it work with you.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, I wasn't. I knew right away. As soon as she. As soon as she said, I'm out, I was like, oh, no, you are not.

[Becky Lynch]

Not.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You are in. We are. You are coming in. I was like, what is wrong with me? I am a psychopath. I cannot let this slip through my fingers just because I think I'm not good at monogamy. No. I just wasn't with the right person. That's why I wasn't good at being a. A partner. Because I, you know, was selfish and didn't understand that relationships are about putting your partner first and you're not, you know, you got to be a friend with somebody, and you have to. There's a respect. I mean, it's a whole bunch of crap. Essentially, I wasn't with the right person.

[Interviewer]

I think that's a common story with guys, too. We were, you know, kind of dating, fucking around for a few months. She kept trying to date me. I kept saying, no, no, no, no, no. And then she was like, fuck it. And then, you know, she's a bit younger than me, and I was pretty self conscious about that. And she was like, well, I'M just gonna go out with a doctor who's older than you. And I remember she was like, I'm going on vacation with my sister. And I was like. And I was just like. And we were kind of, like, trying to, like, distance ourselves, and I lost my, like, it. Like, I was, like, calling my girlfriends. I was stalking her Instagram. What am I doing? Like, I just felt like, kind of almost like a 22 getting where I was just like, I'm just. I am not myself. And I was like, when you get. And, like, literally got back from vacation and I flew her out, I'm like, let's just make this work. Because I just. I remember for the first time in forever that, like, I hadn't lost myself for a girl like that, where I was just, like, panicking, that I had fucked up in a crazy way. So, yeah, I think you had a similar.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, yeah, yeah. She told me, because we were at first, like, you said, you don't want to mess up the work. We didn't want to date within the work pool anyway because this conflict of interest. And then it's like, ah, what if we break up? It's awkward. We'd seen it a million times. Other people had done it. It was just not great. It's like, I don't know. And then, you know, again, I was a serial monogamist and, you know, a pretty not great partner, and I didn't think I was fit for it, yada, yada. And then we started kind of fooling around a little bit, and it was awesome. And I was. I was, like, kind of comfortable with that at first, I was like, oh, this is fine. This is great. You know, it's easy. And then the second, she was like, ah, this doesn't work for me. I don't want to be half in. What are we doing if we're not? Why are we waiting? You can just do your thing, and then we can be friends, and it'll be great.

[Becky Lynch]

I was so happy about this revelation, you know, I was like, oh, my God, wait till I tell him. He's gonna be delighted. He's gonna love this.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I did not, in fact, love it. I was like. I was like. And then, like, I remember that week, like, thinking, like, I probably let it sit for, like, three days. And I was like, no, we need to. This is. No, I don't want it. I don't want. I don't. I just want you. That's all I want. This is all I want. I just want you. And she was still kind of like, ah, I don't know. And then I think it was, like, later that weekend, she was at, like, a signing or something in Louisiana or something, and, like, saw some people with shirts of My shirts. Like, Seth Rollins shirts. Right?

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah. And it gave me the itis. You know, like, when I saw them, I just lit up and, like, I was like, oh, isn't he so great? You know, And I just wanted to talk about how great he was, and there's this massive line of people, and then I'm just talking about how great Seth Rollins is. And then I was like, God damn it. You like him? Crap. Yeah.

[Interviewer]

That was, like, almost that moment. You're like, well, it. What am I doing? You know? You're just like, oh, I.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Me. As soon as she said she was at. I was like, no, that is. I've gone about this all wrong. Yeah. I've gone about this all wrong. And then when she came back to me and told me that. That she was like, no, I think. Okay, I think I want to do this.

[Interviewer/Host]

So how long did y' all date before you.

[Becky Lynch]

I mean, that feels. Oh, before we got married.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Well, we dated. I. I started ring shopping, like, within two months.

[Becky Lynch]

Stop.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, yeah. I knew right away. I was telling people. I was telling my friends immediately when we started dating, I was like, oh, yeah, we're probably gonna get married. You can just. You can just. You can bank on that. Yeah, this is.

[Interviewer]

Did you know that at the time?

[Becky Lynch]

Gosh. Well, no. I was still a little nervous because of everything he had told me. Like, it was so easy and it was so comfortable, but I was like, don't. Don't pull the cart before the horse or whatever. Yeah, put the carpet. Yeah. So it took me maybe a little second longer because, like, what I said to him when I was like, I can't do this was that either, like, I go in full armor and I don't feel anything, or I don't go in full armor and I'm just looking to get pummeled. So either way, that may be a bad choice of words, but anyway, either way, like, it's not a good outcome for me. It's just nothing, you know?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

But, yeah, I mean, we. I said no, and I got the ring. And then, I mean, I proposed to her in August. So we started dating in the end of January. I mean, like, officially in February.

[Becky Lynch]

Ish.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

And then by August, we were engaged. And then we were going to get married in 2020. So this would have been August 20, 2019. Yeah. And we were going to get married in the next year. 2020. Covid screwed that up. So we lost a year and we ended up doing it in 21 because we wanted to get married in Hawaii, which is where we got engaged. And then we wanted to go back and do a little destination, but Hawaii was nobody's coming in.

[Interviewer]

They're very strange.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

So to have even. We had a small wedding, but they were like. To try to get 20 people there was like too much.

[Interviewer]

How did you guys break the news to your colleagues that you guys were all of a sudden in a relationship?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, they knew right away.

[Becky Lynch]

They, they did know right away. But it was also in a whoop group chat that I think you.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Is that true?

[Becky Lynch]

Said sorry about my girlfriend. I was like, oh wow, that's so funny.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I don't remember that one.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, I said something. I probably was poo pooing something.

[Interviewer]

You admit there's been other obviously wrestlers who have dated. Are there like HR policies or guidelines or they're just like, fuck it. Do they like it when that happens?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Do they what?

[Becky Lynch]

Like it?

[Interviewer]

Do they? Yeah. Do they like it like in the storyline? Do they? Oh, what can we do with this?

[Becky Lynch]

I don't think they one way or the other. I think they go with it. But they are actually very accommodating with it. Like they try to keep couples on the same show, like the same schedule for the most part. Which yeah, is very kind of them.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, I mean, I think they. I mean we spend. Because we're year round. WWE is constant. There's no off season. And it used to be where there would be upwards of. I mean they would run well over 500 shows a year between the cause they do two TV shows every week and then tons of live events, sometimes, sometimes 4, 5, 6 live events depending on if they were running simultaneous live events on the same weekend. And so you would spend all this time with these people. Like you would spend way more time with these people than you would your family or your friends at home. It wasn't even close. You'd be on the road so much. So I think they, they understood that obviously relationships were going to happen. And the big. One of the biggest things, at least for us that works and I don't know how it is for other people is that we, we like regular people, just don't get what we do. They just do not understand it. They don't understand the schedule, the sacrifice, what it takes so like for us to have each other back in that regard and understand what sacrifices need to be made, you Know, like, if I have to be gone for whatever amount of time, there's no pushback, there's no like resentment. There's nothing. We just. The other one just picks up the slack and vice versa. You know, she's got to go shoot Star Trek and then she's got to go be on the road and she's got to go to Saudi for Royal Rumble and she's got to go to Europe for two weeks for, for wwe. It's like, okay, you know, there's no pushback. There's no, like, well, you're not here and me, I'm doing all. There's none of that. It's just, oh, yeah, I get it. That's the work, you know, that's the job. And to have that wwe, I think they understand that. They understand that. That's just, you know, when you have everybody constantly traveling together, you get to know each other, you spend a lot of time together, you understand each other. That's bound to happen. So, yeah, there are, are, I'd say quite a few romances in the, in the mix and they are very accommodating schedule wise. It's quite nice. But sometimes they do stuff with it and sometimes they don't.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You know, her and I, they put us on screen as a, as a partnership. But like other couples like, you know, Bianca Belair, Montez Ford don't really do anything with them.

[Becky Lynch]

They did. They started off a little bit.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

A little bit.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

But there wasn't like a romance thing, right?

[Becky Lynch]

Well, she was with them in the beginning. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Interviewer]

Do you think it'd be fun to have one of you guys like turn on each other. Other as far as storyline.

[Becky Lynch]

Just don't know what you'd get out of that because we can't have a match, I suppose. Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Also like, our world is such a weird gray area that like people, we would, people would know we're not really, you know what I mean? We're going to dinner together on Tuesday night, fighting on Monday, you know, it's like I don't think anybody.

[Becky Lynch]

That makes sense.

[Interviewer]

So you kind of almost have to ask like, what is, you know, what is believable? What is viable? Are people going to buy into this storyline? If like you said, if it doesn't work, like, why fuck around with it?

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah. You really have to tread that line of reality all the time.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

It's got to be one or the other. Right. It's got to be like, there's got to be a Thread in that gray area where you can really make them, you know, really hook people. Like, oh, I don't know if that's real or not. Do they really like each other or not? I don't know what's going on there. Or it's got to be, like, the opposite, where it's full. Like a full piece of stories, full piece of fiction. You know what I mean? And they're just. They're watching it the way they watch Game of Thrones or something like that. So you kind of got to do it like one or the other. There's not, like a middle space that works. I find if you like insulting it and you're, like, throwing it in their faces, it kind of doesn't really work, I guess.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah.

[Interviewer/Host]

Well, the two of you obviously have a very beautiful daughter.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

She's the best.

[Becky Lynch]

She's so.

[Interviewer/Host]

I mean, in the show, we see her as a baby in the first couple episodes. She's very beautiful. When did you know you were ready to start and grow your family?

[Becky Lynch]

Oh, I. God, I felt like I was ready real quick. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

To have a kid.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I mean, yeah. But the schedule didn't really permit it because, you know, when you live. Work in a physical industry.

[Becky Lynch]

I know.

[Interviewer]

Well, I was curious about that. I mean, we. We work together. I love working with my wife. It's a lot of fun. We didn't.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I.

[Interviewer]

You know, I started the show before we met, and then it was like, I think you could be really good at this. And it just kind of happened. And then we had a daughter together, and we. We make it. We. We make it work. But I'm just really fascinated with you guys. To your point, you're on the road all the time. You are. You know, you're giving your body to wrestling. It's physically demanding. And then, obviously, being a mom is a whole nother universe. Like, I must. That must have been, you know, having those conversations about, like, how you guys make, like, as you're like, hey, we're gonna do this. Were there conversations about, like, well, how.

[Interviewer/Host]

Are we gonna make.

[Interviewer]

How are we gonna do it?

[Becky Lynch]

So before the pandemic happened, I. I just wanted to have a kid anyway, so I was like, oh, I think I'll just have one and then come back, you know, and make it work and figure it out, because I don't want to skip over that part of my life, which can often happen when you're. It never feels like the right time to step away to make that decision. And, you know, and it's hard to get that back. And I was at the top of my career, but part of me, I don't know if it's self destruction or just like a rebellion where I'm like, I'll make it work. Just wanted to figure it out and have both. And then the pand. And then I saw that we would be wrestling in front of no people for a prolonged period of time. I was like, you know, this might be a good time to sneak a kid in. Yeah. And so, like, timing worked out so perfectly. And then when we came back, like, everything fell perfectly into place. We have a bus. We have a bus driver, Andy, who's like family. He looks after us so incredibly. I wish I could clone him. And then he said that his wife was looking to leave her job, and we were like, oh, great, let's take her on. So she was our nanny, and she would travel everywhere because we were on the road four or five days a week, and we would just bring our daughter everywhere. She was on the bus, she was in arenas. We would bring her to every kids museum, park, zoo, et cetera, and all these things. Different towns all around the world. But it was like, you know, she had another aunt and uncle with Andy and Jackie, and yeah, it was just incredible.

[Interviewer/Host]

And how did you manage postpartum in getting back ready for the ring?

[Becky Lynch]

He. He trained with me a lot. And that was like, the. Getting my body back was way easier than I thought because she just sucked the life out of me. Yeah, I breastfed for over two years, so I probably didn't sleep for the first two years. And then after that, I didn't realize. Realized that postpartum depression can hit you once you're done breastfeeding. So then that was wacky. And then I was a mess for like another six months. And it took me a while to realize what was going on. It was until one of the girls, Beth Phoenix, explained that that can happen to you after you're done that I realized, oh, okay, I need to get some help. And then once I did that, then everything was fine. Ba duh was poor Colby.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

It was treacherous for had to put.

[Becky Lynch]

Up with me for.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, God bless. I mean, these. You women are your superheroes. It's insane what you have to deal with from, like a child birthing perspective and everything that comes thereafter. Hormonally, I was blown away. You know, we're dudes. We're simple creatures. Like, we're just like video games, football, cool. You know, like, we do not have. Have this to deal with. Hormonally, emotionally, like, we just do not. So having to navigate that, be a mom, be a wife, be a performer, and, like, manage all that internally and how that affects. I mean, it was wild to see. I don't think I've ever been more impressed than watching my wife be a mother and, like, figure out how to navigate all that and do it so effortlessly. Like, you know, I think in. On one hand, it's so kind.

[Becky Lynch]

It was not effortless. Losing my mind.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, but you.

[Becky Lynch]

You.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You didn't. Like, you met. You were like, I'm losing my mind. Stop it. You know, and then you were able to figure it out. Like, the fact that you're able to figure it out, and, like, you mentioned you had help and all that, but, I mean, it's. It's such an impressive thing to. And not just you, but all. All of you guys, all of you women who do that, it's just. It's. To me, I go, wow.

[Becky Lynch]

Wow.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I could never. You know, I could never. So it was really cool. And we got to travel the world with our kid and experience, you know, Europe. She went to Europe with us a couple times. We took her to Saudi Arabia a couple times. Took her every single state in the country. She went all over the place. Like, it was. It was a really awesome thing to be able to share that experience with her. She'll not remember any of it at all, but to be able to do both and, you know, say, hey, we did that once. And when we tell her about it, like, even now, when we kind of reminisce about it, I'm like, that's nuts. I can't fix it. Nuts.

[Interviewer/Host]

She's five now.

[Becky Lynch]

Had that baby bag just going everywhere, everywhere. Put her on the planes, never at home.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

When.

[Interviewer]

When Rebecca was back in the ring, you know, and making your comeback, that must have been, like, a. Just a really proud moment for you, knowing what it all took for you to, like, be a mom, raise your daughter, get your body back, you know, like, this is the challenge. Was there, like, a sense of pride that you felt like seeing her back, Back?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I don't know if pride was the right word, but certainly a sense of inspiration, you know, I mean, pride in that. Like, hey, that's my wife, you know, look how awesome she is.

[Interviewer]

Hey, guys, check it out.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I got. I got a real good one, you know, So I think in that regard, yeah, but I think it was just. I was more just impressed by her ability to do it all, you know, and just put all that on her shoulders and do it and do it so well. And like, like, another thing is, in our industry, women aren't allowed to do what she did like before. Before her. She's truly a trailblazer in that regard. I mean, there are a couple of them, couple of women who had kids and were able to come back and like, continue to do it, but not the way, in my opinion, not the way she did it. You know, at the. I mean, she was at the top.

[Becky Lynch]

Top.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

We're talking main event of WrestleMania, which is like winning the Super Bowl. First woman ever to do that. Two years later. No, a year later. A year later she's pregnant. And then a year and a half after that, she's back and she's coming back to that elite level of storytelling better than she's ever been. Still able to get in there and do everything she did and more. Work with younger talent and help bring them up. I mean, there's so much that goes into it and the fact that she was able to do that, I mean, it sets a wild precedent in the sense that I think it's going to be so hard to like, keep up with that if you're a woman in our industry. But it also shows them. Oh, what's possible.

[Interviewer/Host]

Yeah.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You know, this is possible. It doesn't just have to be the way it used to be. It doesn't have to be the good old boys club and the girls, you know, they get 30, then they go away and retire and have kids and never do anything again. Like, she showed people and women and young girls in our industry that you can do both. Both. And you can do it like awesomely. And that, that gift, that ability to trailblaze in that regard is gonna change the way our industry works forever.

[Becky Lynch]

Wow.

[Interviewer/Host]

Rebecca, what did you challenge, like internally to do that?

[Becky Lynch]

I don't know. I think I just was. It was that sense of rebellion, of like, wait a minute, this is always the way that it has been. Like, like, if you want to be a mom, well then see you later. Right. You know, your life's over once you have kids. Yeah. And. But, you know, like, I think of people that do have kids and they were able to balance the two, but they didn't have another person that was also on the road. They had or have people that stay at home and they've had. They had their kids before they started wrestling. So it seemed like if you wanted to go have a kid, then that was it, you know, and so. Or you come back and you're on a part time Schedule. I wanted to do both. And, you know, I was already challenging what could be done, so I was like, what else can I challenge?

[Interviewer]

How did being a dad change your life?

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Oh, you know what? I think it. I mean, patience was the biggest one. I think patience. And also, like, I think it was a progression of. In our industry and in a lot of entertainment industries, I find that, like, to be super successful, there's a level of kind of selfishness that you have to employ to get where you want to go. You know, you sacrifice a lot in terms of relationships and friendships and stuff like that to do the thing. And as I got later in life, and part of that is why I was such a bad relationship partner is because I was so self involved. And as I got a little later in my life, and especially with her, I started to realize what it really meant to put somebody before you or put someone's needs equal to yours. And that even that was a little bit of a, you know, thing in our relationship that was difficult for me to, Like, I could say it, I could verbalize it, but my actions didn't follow my words entirely. It took me a minute to, like, get there. And then when I had my kid and we had Rue, I remember, like, specifically asleep one of the nights, putting her to sleep or something, and I'm like, she was gone or whatever, but I remember being by myself and, like, remember losing my patience with her. And she was crying, and I, like, was mad about, you know, her not sleeping or something like that. And then I, like, did, you know, I went and got whatever or whatever, and I came back and like, I was just like, what am I doing? What? This is a baby. Like, this is a child. She doesn't. She just.

[Interviewer]

Just.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

You're totally responsible for every. Every everything that this kid has. You. She doesn't know. And I was like, oh, oh, I'm going about this all wrong. And that was like the last facade. That was like, the end of it for me. And then it. And then, so I learned really, truly what it meant to. For someone to mean more than you and for everything that they do is more kind of not more important. But it takes precedent and to put that before all the things that you care about yourself. And so I feel like that's part of me, like, that's like the. Was one of the. My final, like, hurdles. And like, oh, this is what it means to be a dad, a husband, you know, caretaker of a family or protector of a family. It's not about always leading the way and making the decisions and being the boss, it's actually about putting other people's needs before your own. And so I think that's really, really what that was, like, the biggest thing that I learned.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, I found it to be really rewarding the same way it's like just wake. Waking up and knowing you have a purpose outside of yourself, you know, where it's just like, you know why you're getting up, you know, like, because otherwise it's just other things feel selfish or not as rewarding or it's like things can be taken away from you, but like, once you have that thing to protect and take care of, it's like, yeah, I don't know. It's like I just. I just became happy.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Interviewer]

So much like, no matter what happens, you're just like, oh, well, I still got this.

[Becky Lynch]

Yes. You know, you realize that it is actually the most important thing. Like, I always felt like it was something that you'd see on Hallmark movies where they're like, family's everything. And, you know, I came from a broken home. So did he. And so I didn't necessarily buy into that. I'm also very Irish. You know, I don't think that we're as much like that. But then you're like, oh, no, this really is everything. This is. This is all that's important. Yeah, all that stuff is just extra. It's just fluff, you know? Right.

[Interviewer]

Well, I know you guys get it going, but I just want to ask you guys, obviously, like the wwe, wwi, you know, the industry has created some megastars. You have the Rock. You mentioned John Cena. The Rock's up for an Oscar this year. You're doing Star Trek. Do you guys have dreams and aspirations outside when your wrestling careers end to maybe follow the path of some of your biggest entertainers in the industry?

[Becky Lynch]

I mean, I just love performing, so whatever I can do to continue telling stories and to perform, that's what I want to do.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, I mean, I'm. I talk about football. I got a. I got a part time gig doing that Chicago Bears.

[Interviewer]

I'm a Packer fan.

[Becky Lynch]

Oh, no. Oh, you should have led with that.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

We are talking right now on the eve of one of the biggest Bear Packer games in a long time. Few days.

[Interviewer]

I died on Sunday. Myka person.

[Becky Lynch]

Yeah, yeah, sorry about that.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

We hate to see an ACL as someone who's had that, I understand that pain. Get well soon, Micah, if you're listening. But yeah, no, I like doing that. That's like kind of a great thing for me. I think I'll be involved in the business in some way, shape or form. I love it. It's given me everything. Obviously my wife I met there, my daughter got a wrest school. It's helped provide, you know, just, just a life for me and it's what I love. It's my number one passion. So I, I feel like I'll be a part of the WWE family for quite some time. As long as they'll have me, whether that's in the ring or behind the scenes. So we'll see how it goes. But if football comes calling, man, I love to be in the booth when the Bears take down the packers for the next two decades.

[Interviewer]

This weekend.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

I feel. I feel good.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, we're going.

[Becky Lynch]

I feel good.

[Interviewer]

We going.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Yeah, we're going to soldier on Saturday.

[Interviewer]

Hell yeah. That's a lot of fun. Well, the show is WWE unreal. It's streaming on Netflix. Whether you are a fan of wrestling or not, it's a great documentary. It's fascinating. I think anyone listening to the show will definitely watch it. I appreciate you guys taking the time. It's always fun to see, like a husband and wife duo working together, making it work. And you're an inspiration to us and it's been a lot of fun getting to know you guys.

[Becky Lynch]

Thanks.

[Seth Rollins (Colby Lopez)]

Thanks for having us. Pleasure, guys.

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