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In the main event on WWE's Monday Night Raw, Seth Rollins defeated Finn Bálor by using the Curb Stomp for the first time since WrestleMania 31.
After interference from The Bálor Club, The Bar, and Jason Jordan, Rollins used the Curb Stomp finisher on Bálor to secure the victory.
Rollins was highly praised in 2014 and 2015 for his incredible in-ring work and displays of both technical prowess and high-flying aerial manoeuvres, but his Curb Stomp finisher was regarded by many WWE fans as one of the best finishers in recent years.
Rollins used the Curb Stomp, also called the Blackout, to defeat most of his opponents from 2014 to 2015 and even went on to use the move to defeat Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 31.
However, fans immediately noticed that Rollins stopped using the move after WrestleMania 31 and would eventually adopt Triple H’s Pedigree as his finisher until he dropped that finisher and began to use Kenny Omega’s Rain-Trigger in 2017.
Rollins was interviewed last year by Sam Roberts and said that the decision to stop using the Curb Stomp was made by Vince McMahon during his WWE Championship reign.
“So Vince McMahon is sitting wherever Vince McMahon sits on a Monday morning and he's seeing me on the Today Show and I look good in a suit. I'm representing the company. I look good in a suit.
And I'm wearing the title and then he sees this package of me stomping another man's head into the ground and it being called The Curbstomp on national television.”
Rollins said that McMahon decided to have him use another finisher after saying “well, that's not a good representation of what I want my top guy to do” and having a meeting that resulted in the finisher seemingly being banned.
Whatever ban that McMahon placed on the finisher, no longer seems intact after WWE commentators mentioned the move as “The Blackout” and are referring to the stomp on social media.
Either that or Rollins may have gone old school for one night only, but let's hope for the best.
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