Reed feels the segment with Rollins is a career-defining moment.
Bronson Reed headlined the 9/30 Monday Night Raw in a Last Monster Standing match against Braun Strowman. Strowman emerged victorious after the returning Seth Rollins stomped Reed’s head against the ring steps, which prevented him from making the 10 count.
The surprise attack on Reed was in retaliation for Reed hitting six Tsunamis onto Rollins and sidelining him in early August.
During Reed’s appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, he said he was not originally set to deliver six Tsunamis to Rollins. He added that it was Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque’s vision to do more. As it was playing out, Rollins was being told that Reed was about to hit the move again.
No (I was not originally supposed to give six Tsunamis to Seth Rollins). No. I think it was supposed to be significantly less, and then the way that it turned out with Hunter’s vision is it just was more and more and more and it was one of those things where you’re listening to the audience and you can just feel a change in the audience as I was doing it. Hit the first two, they’re sort of booing. It looks like that’s it and then I go up for the third one and people sort of like, what the hell’s going on here? Then I go up for the fourth one, they can’t comprehend what’s happening and by the fifth one, they’re chanting for more. There’s like blood lust amongst the crowd for someone that they love as well. They love Seth Rollins and I was glad that it actually ended up working where after the sixth one, I left and they still started chanting, singing his music that he comes out to so, that also worked… Exactly (they were chanting ‘one more time’). As much as they love someone like Seth Rollins or any of the top guys that are super over, I guess that move now has its own lore, the Tsunami, and I always tell people, ‘If you get to see it live, it’s different to seeing it on TV.’ It’s very impactful so I guess six in a row, which I’ve never done, was a lot.
No, no (it was not finalized that I’d be giving six Tsunamis to Rollins when I first went to the ring). As it’s happening (is when I’m informing Rollins that I’d be continuously doing the move). So, it’s one of those things like, yeah, he has to be willing to be able to be there and I have to be willing do more but, it had definitely worked out and it made for such a great moment in television. I think I had so much buzz around that and then people online as well saying they haven’t seen something like that in WWE for so long where you can take someone and just propel them in one night with just one segment. Not a match, nothing else, just brutality.
Further reflecting on it, Reed believes that was a career-defining moment. He spoke to Levesque afterwards and was told that the moment is something WWE can replay forever.
Yeah, I think so for sure (Tsunamis on Seth Rollins is a career-defining moment). I spoke with Hunter right afterwards and he said that’s a moment that will last forever. They can replay that as much as possible… I’m not gonna say it’s nowhere near as good because, you know, he’s one of the best ever but it’s like Stone Cold at King of the Ring doing the 3:16 line, that promo, you instantly remember it and you instantly remember a switch in his character and where he went from then, and I’m hoping that people remember the six Tsunamis as something similar.
In December 2022, Reed returned to WWE and helped The Miz win a Ladder match. He responded to a point that was made about his return being underwhelming.
He feels how he attacked Seth Rollins and how he also arrived to IMPACT/TNA by attacking Josh Alexander should have been how he was brought back into the fold of WWE.
I was hoping for this when I first debuted if I was to be honest and that’s not against the way I came back to WWE. I came back and I helped The Miz win his match. I think he was feuding with Dexter (Lumis) at the time. But I feel like what I did with Seth (Rollins) was how I should have debuted… Yeah (Reed understands point about his WWE return being underwhelming)… This happens at times. Obviously, I’d been rehired, they wanna use me. They don’t really know what to do with me so they sort of just rush something and put you in something so you’re at least on TV, and they can start to establish you and stuff but I’m like, I think the best way to do things is to make them impactful. I did something similar to what I did with Seth with TNA when I went there, IMPACT Wrestling. I attacked Josh Alexander on my first night. I only gave him three Tsunamis. But, but, it was enough to be like, oh my God, this guy is an instant threat against one of the main guys here in TNA. Like, what’s he going to do? And I think that’s sort of what I should have done in my debut with WWE but, that’s out of my control.
Circling back to Reed’s work with Braun Strowman, he enjoyed that and said there’s natural chemistry between them.
No, I don’t think — I didn’t (go into segments with Braun Strowman thinking it would blow up on social media). I was excited to be able to work with Braun. I think there was a natural chemistry there. We had maybe touched one time before in the André the Giant Battle Royal last year, and I was like, oh, we could do something there with me and him. But then it’s like, what do you do? And then, Hunter obviously had great vision for things, came up with the car angle and everything, and then once we were filming that, it’s in the moment, I was like, okay, this is gonna be cool. I think people are gonna really respond to this and then, it ended up being WWE’s most viral moment for the week. I think it got almost 13 million views across social media platforms so, it worked.
Rollins appeared on the 10/7 Monday Night Raw and called out Reed. He said Bronson can choose the time and place where they clash. Reed responded on X and noted that Rollins should expect him like he would expect Jesus to come back.
If the quotes in this article are used, please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with an H/T to POST Wrestling for the transcriptions.
