In recognition of the fact that he managed to beat John Cena with the help of a tiny, retired talk show host, WWE recently immortalized WWE Champion Seth Rollins in bronze. Well, at least in theory they immortalized him. The statue didn’t last long, as Sting crushed it in a garbage truck the very next week. Rollins obviously wasn’t happy to see his legacy get taken out with the trash, although there was another reason he was upset. Turns out a hell of a lot of work went into creating chocolate Seth Rollins.
That’s right, WWE didn’t just slap a couple title belts on a Nativity Jesus, then spray-paint the whole shebang brown. They actually made a painstakingly detailed cast of Seth Rollins’ body for the statue, and the whole process was somewhat excruciating. Rollins had to be covered in Vaseline and stand perfectly still for long periods of time while he was covered in head-to-toe in plaster. For the cast of his face, his entire head also had to be coated in a strange orange goop. It looks less fun than it sounds.
I sometimes give WWE a hard time for being lazy, but credit where it’s due, sometimes they go way above the call of duty. Expending thousands of dollars and hundreds of man-hours on a statue that was on-screen for all of five minutes wasn’t strictly necessary, but the fact that Rollins’ statue actually looked like him really sold the angle. Hopefully the lady who was covering Rollins with Vaseline and plaster wasn’t watching when Sting destroyed her work on Raw, although it seems like she found the job pretty fulfilling either way.
