Seth Rollins
Colby Daniel Lopez (born May 28, 1986) is an American professional wrestler, wrestling trainer, and actor. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Seth Rollins. He calls himself “The Architect Kingslayer”.
Prior to signing with WWE, Lopez wrestled under the ring name Tyler Black for Ring of Honor (ROH) and was part of the Age of the Fall stable with Jimmy Jacobs. During his time in ROH he held the ROH World Championship once and the ROH World Tag Team Championship twice with Jacobs, and won the 2009 Survival of the Fittest tournament. He also wrestled for various independent promotions including Full Impact Pro, where he was a one-time FIP World Heavyweight Champion, as well as Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, where he was a one-time PWG World Tag Team Champion, also with Jacobs.
Lopez signed with WWE in 2010 and was sent to its developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he was renamed Seth Rollins and became the inaugural FCW Grand Slam Champion. After WWE rebranded FCW into NXT, he became the inaugural NXT Champion. Lopez debuted on WWE’s main roster at the 2012 Survivor Series as part of a faction called The Shield, alongside Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. He won his first main roster championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship, with Reigns. Rollins then went on to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, WWE Universal Championship, WWE Intercontinental Championship and the WWE United States Championship. He also won the 2014 Money in the Bank ladder match, the 2015 Slammy Award for Superstar of the Year and the 2019 Men’s Royal Rumble.
Rollins is a Triple Crown Champion, a Grand Slam Champion, holds the record for most title reigns with the Raw Tag Team Championship (with six), and is the only wrestler to have held all three of WWE’s current world titles (WWE, Universal, and NXT Championships). He has headlined numerous major pay-per-view events for WWE, including WrestleMania 31. Industry veteran Sting, who wrestled his final WWE match against Rollins, described him as the most talented professional wrestler he has ever seen or worked with.[6] He was the cover athlete for video game WWE 2K18.[7] He was named the No. 1 wrestler in the world by Pro Wrestling Illustrated’s PWI 500 list in both 2015 and 2019, becoming one of only five people to attain the number one position more than once (after Bret Hart, Steve Austin, Triple H and John Cena).[8]
Well known for his ability to continuously reinvent his on-screen character, Rollins is considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of the 2010s, having won multiple championships and headlined many pay-per-view events. He has set numerous records during his time in WWE, with the most notable coming when he beat Roman Reigns and John Cena in a record hour-and-five-minute gauntlet match performance. He is also the first and only wrestler to cash in a WWE Money in the Bank contract at WrestleMania, as well as one of only two men (along with Goldberg) to pin Brock Lesnar twice, and is the only wrestler to have beaten Lesnar for the world championship three separate times.
