WWE Crown Jewel 2019: 5 biggest questions after Bray Wyatt dethroned Seth Rollins as Universal Champion

"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt is now the Universal Champion

#3 Is Seth Rollins going to turn heel now?

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At the start of 2019, Seth Rollins was the most popular male Superstar on the WWE roster. This continued after his Universal Championship triumph over Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35 and into his rivalry with another babyface at the time, AJ Styles, who received boos when he stood across the ring from fan favourite Rollins in April.

Fast forward six months and there is now a very different feeling towards the former Shield member from large sections of the WWE Universe.

Rollins is no longer the top babyface on RAW. Instead, he has taken on the John Cena and Roman Reigns role of receiving loud boos in the majority of his matches, most notably at Hell in a Cell when he hit Bray Wyatt with 11 stomps.

Speaking to Corey Graves on his new After The Bell podcast this week, Rollins described WWE’s fans as a “fickle audience” and said he does not know what he has done to receive the negative reactions that now greet him in arenas around the world.

Needless to say, those words are not what you would expect to hear from a babyface, regardless of whether they are in character or not, so it would not be at all surprising if we finally saw “The Beastslayer” return to his heel ways in the near future.

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