Finding the right dance partner for Seth Rollins

Rollins with a flying elbow on Lesnar at the Royal Rumble

WWE is not going to take the company title off of Seth Rollins anytime soon. We all had better get used to the notion of the current champion walking into arenas, working his tail off with no real competitor to challenge for his throne.

The company cannot gamble of losing the momentum Rollins has right now as the best on the roster. John Cena can push Rollins, forcing him to dig deeper into his bag of tricks, which only makes the former Shield member look better with each passing week. But for me, and how I see the lack of a championship contender, creative control should see the value in putting a potential program with Dean Ambrose again, which could lead to an eventual title turn or Rollins’ face turn or better yet, a Roman Reigns heel turn. The notion the company already has a plan for the third member of the defunct badass trio turning heel and capturing the WWE World Title makes me think a storyline where the brute gets pissed that he is being passed over for title contention leads to the change.

It’s brilliant, I know. But I also don’t see anyone jumping on the bandwagon anytime soon. Rollins is the face and heel of this company right now. It’s his world and everyone else is living in it. Too bad, so sad.

Ambrose and Rollins have history, but more important, they have chemistry. No two wrestlers outside Rollins and Cena can say that right now. For what it’s worth, seeing someone like Dolph Ziggler receive another push by WWE brass would be ideal right this moment in a series of matches with Rollins. It’s not happening any time soon, either.

Because of the need to push through this purgatory of unsettling missed opportunity, wrestlers have to two-step in the process of finding common ground. You don’t see this with Sheamus and Randy Orton or Ambrose and Collins because the continuity is there and the history between the opponents shines through. The fact Cena and Kevin Owens were able to find that kind of balance so quickly reminds me of Cena’s matches with Edge and CM Punk. It also reminds me of how there was beauty in the story told in feuds between The Rock and Steve Austin, Ric Flair and Ricky Steamboat and Jerry Lawler and Eddie Gilbert. It just worked. Wrestlers today, no matter how talented they are in the ring, have to find that balance, that ability to tell the story without skipping chapters. It’s a lost art form that will now suffer a few more missteps because the generation I knew in the ring is fading away and the connection between the last and present is sorely lacking.

When Ambrose and Rollins get in the ring there is heat. There is electricity. It’s Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho all over again. It’s Ricky Morton stepping out of his tag team shell to sell for Ric Flair. It’s the hope that someday we will once again see Bubba Ray Dudley wrestle as a singles star. Chemistry can be taught, but can also be created when wrestlers are committed to its craft. It’s hard to say that about some feuds that have worked – like Cena and Punk – because they were and are two different wrestlers. But the drive and the desire to work with one another makes the program and the spots they take so worth watching.

You can add Daniel Bryan and Punk to that list as well.

The WWE Director of Operations, Kane, has injected himself in the plan for Rollins. He “set up” the match between Rollins and Ambrose. But he also has put himself directly in the path of the WWE World Title. I love Kane, but do not like the angle. Ambrose is the best choice right now to challenge Rollins for the title and everything else needs to be decided after the end of the year. Fans want to see ballet in the ring, not unbalanced jazz. These two have it. They are going to have it and WWE creative needs to accept it.

It could be the best thing going today and for the remainder of the wrestling year.