Most fans today would agree that kayfabe has been long dead, especially with social media being as invasive because it is. Nonetheless, last yr, Seth Rollins managed to dupe the industry when he suffered a kayfabe injury mostly.
The newest season of “WWE Unreal” has kicked off with what happened behind-the-scenes around SummerSlam 2025, covering topics like Rollins’ injury. Through the episode, it was revealed that Becky Lynch needed to ultimately deceive his family about Rollins with a view to maintain kayfabe.
“You recognize, I can deceive the fans; that is wonderful. It’s a part of the business. Lying to, like, my family and friends?” she said, adding that her DMs were flooded with texts after Rollins seemingly got injured. “His dad is texting me! Like, do I actually have to deceive your dad!? Who do I actually have to deceive? So I used to be, like, breaking out in hives.”
Rollins seconded
“I feel she didn’t anticipate having to be an accomplice; I feel that part didn’t occur to her that the night of,” Rollins added, claiming that he’s a significantly better liar than Lynch. She then added that her manager also reached out to her, and he or she realized that she had to reply questions in an ungainly way between a lie and the reality. “That was like my way of toeing the road, of like… Not lying but lying…” she admitted.
Becky Lynch hated having to deceive her family members concerning the injury
Having to deceive all her closest friends about Seth Rollins’ fake injury turned Becky Lynch sour against the entire concept of maintaining kayfabe to that extent that she turned to Paul “Triple H” Levesque to make a request.
“Next time, just f**king don’t tell me,” she said, expressing to Levesque that she doesn’t like lying, noting how everyone has been texting her and putting plenty of pressure on her about keeping the story up.
“Any time I might go into public where there is a possibility that an image might come out, we were on the crutches with the brace,” Rollins added, expressing how he strongly disliked having to maneuver around with the crutches. “I actually have stairs to go to my house. I could not do legs on the gym. I flew business with a GD brace – you realize, while you stop in security, they must pat the entire thing down? It was obnoxious.”
While every little thing went to plan for essentially the most part, Rollins noted that his daughter didn’t play along too well and almost immediately ruined the story.
“I told her ‘Oh, daddy’s got a pretend booboo; he doesn’t have an actual booboo,'” he recalled. “I send her to this little Summer camp, she does her thing for a couple of hours, she comes back – she’s got this teacher called Miss Joy – she’s like, ‘I told Miss Joy that you may have a pretend booboo.'”
The admission forced Rollins to bring Miss Joy into the ‘inner circle.’
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