The Ospreay Vs. Rollins Epilogue: The Universal Champ Got a Talking-To

When you're so bad at Twitter, your cornball bosses take notice... Photo Credit: WWE.com

If you remember, last week Seth Rollins and Will Ospreay got into a dust-up on Twitter Dot Com. If you're trying to forget, sorry, close now, don't read anymore, and thanks for the page click anyway. It was a slapfight that was funny to witness in its nascency, but once people started dropping serious takes on it, well, it wore out its welcome. The best people were the ones thinking that the biggest crime perpetrated by either one was Rollins sending a Twitter mob after Ospreay like he was some saint. Need I remind you of how much of a gobshite Mr. I Studied The Blade really is? Either way, it got tiring quick.

And then it got fun again, because today, Rollins posted whatever this was:


I'm screengrabbing it in case he deletes, which is always a possibility. Anyway, what that tweet says to me is that someone tapped him on the shoulder and said "Buddy, you're making us look bad." My guess is that it was Paul Levesque or one of his underlings, given how little I think Vince McMahon knows how to use Twitter. I'm pretty sure he just dictates his inane thoughts to his social media intern, and that intern just filters out the most sterile-sounding ones to post.

Anyway, on one hand, it was a mercy-killing. After the post from last week, where I declared Rollins the winner, he went on an even cornier slant, and yeah, it didn't make anyone look good. When you can get into a Twitter beef with Will "OI OI OI M8, KISS THE RINGS" Ospreay and lose, well, even if you're working in the interest of the WWE corporate machine, I feel a little bad for you. WWE has people equipped to handle Twitter wars, like Rollins' better half Becky Lynch or Big E or Malcolm Bivens (fka Stokely Hathaway). Note how they don't make grandiose claims about WWE's superiority and then give into bait from self-promoting dorks like Ospreay. I think you get the point.

I wonder though, if Rollins were good at Twitter (stay with me here, strictly hypothetical), then would someone in WWE have yelled at him? I mean, when you're bad enough at arguing that WWE, the Kings of the Cornballs, thinks you're posting cringe, then you gotta be awful at it. If they didn't think it made the company look bad, would they have allowed Rollins to pick his own fights instead of just responding to Ospreay? I don't know if I want to find out, which is why I'm so glad that the best at Twitter in the company at least appear like they don't drink its Kool-Aid. In the interim, I'm just sitting here laughing that ostensibly the most prestigious Champion in the company right now had to make a public apology for being bad at Twitter. That, my friends, is entertainment you don't have to pay for.

As a postscript here though, at least Rollins can thank his lucky stars he's not as bad at Twitter as Dolph Ziggler.