Seth Rollins
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| Birth name | Colby Daniel Lopez |
| Born | May 28, 1986 Davenport, Iowa, U.S. |
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| Children | 1 |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Gixx[1] Seth Rollins[2][3] Seth "Freakin" Rollins[4] Taj the Destroyer[4] Tyler Black[4] |
| Billed height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)[2] |
| Billed weight | 225 lb (102 kg)[2] |
| Billed from | Davenport, Iowa[2] |
| Trained by | Danny Daniels[4] |
| Debut | August 21, 2004[5] |
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Colby Daniel Lopez (born May 28, 1986), better known by the ring name Seth Rollins, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand and is the current World Heavyweight Champion in his record-tying second reign. He is the leader of The Vision stable and is known by his nicknames "The Visionary", "The Revolutionary" and "The Architect".
Prior to signing with WWE, he wrestled under the ring name Tyler Black for Ring of Honor (ROH), where he established himself as one of the best wrestlers in North America outside WWE. Black held the ROH World Championship once and the ROH World Tag Team Championship twice (with Jimmy 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 Jimmy Jacobs).
Lopez signed with WWE in 2010 and was sent to its then-developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where he was renamed Seth Rollins and became the inaugural FCW Grand Slam Champion. After WWE rebranded its developmental brand from FCW to NXT, he became the inaugural NXT Champion. In November 2012, he debuted on the main roster as a member of the widely popular stable known as The Shield, alongside Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns. He won his first main roster championship, the WWE Tag Team Championship,[a] with Roman Reigns in May 2013; he went on to hold the title six times with various partners. After leaving The Shield in 2014, he joined The Authority, establishing his on-screen character as a leading villain. Since then, he has headlined numerous major pay-per-view and livestreaming events for WWE, including their flagship annual event, WrestleMania, three times (31, 40 – Night 1, and 41 – Night 1).
Rollins is a six-time world champion in WWE, having won the WWE Championship[b] twice, WWE Universal Championship twice, and World Heavyweight Championship twice, being the inaugural champion. He has also held the Intercontinental Championship and the United States Championship twice each, making him WWE's 29th Triple Crown Champion and 19th Grand Slam Champion, as well as the second wrestler to accomplish the latter twice under the revised 2015 format. Rollins is the first and only wrestler to hold the NXT, WWE, Universal and World Heavyweight Championships; as well as the only wrestler to compete in three different matches to decide an inaugural champion (NXT, Universal and World Heavyweight). Rollins also won the 2014 and 2025 Money in the Bank ladder match, the 2015 Slammy Award for Superstar of the Year, and the 2019 Royal Rumble match. He is an overall ten-time Slammy Award winner. All totaled, he has won 17 championships in WWE (with all but one on the main roster).
Rollins topped Pro Wrestling Illustrated's PWI 500 list of the top 500 wrestlers in the world in 2015, 2019, and 2023, was voted as the PWI Wrestler of the Year in 2015 and 2023 and was named Wrestler of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2022.[6][7] Rollins was the first wrestler to cash in a Money in the Bank contract at a WrestleMania.[8] Rollins holds the record for the longest continuous individual performance by a WWE wrestler in television history, performing for 65 minutes straight, whilst defeating Roman Reigns and John Cena in the same night in a Gauntlet match.[9]
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