McBenedict

Seth Rollins says Triple H was the one who came up with PAC's famous near-fall in their WWE Championship match on Raw in 2015: "I remember Ben, he had gotten called up from NXT – he had a great run in NXT, kind of put that brand on the map – and everybody was kind of waiting like ‘When’s he gonna get called up?’ Because he was a world champion down there, he had lost the title and the writing was on the wall, like ‘When’s he gonna get called up? What’s gonna be his position? When’s it gonna happen?’ "So he gets called up and I remember very early on we got this opportunity to have this match and it was Triple H who had given me the go ahead like ‘Hey, this is what we want to do with Ben, with Neville.’ I was so excited to have a match with him on Monday Night Raw – someone that I admired his work but we had never actually been in the ring together in a singles match so I was really excited to get the opportunity. "I was in a place where I was a world champion so I had an opportunity to really give him a platform to show the world like ‘Hey, how awesome is this guy?’ And so I remember being excited to put the thing together and to just give everything I could to him so that the world would know this guy’s the best wrestler on the planet, I want everybody to see that. "We put the match together with that structure in mind, obviously knowing what we were gonna do at the end of it. I didn’t think it was gonna be as good as it was. I can’t take sole credit for the idea, the idea actually came from Triple H himself to do the Red Arrow and then on the cover for Ben to pull my foot onto the rope. Obviously the execution was really important and I think we nailed it, but the idea was from Triple H and he believed in Ben as much as all of us did and he wanted to make sure that it looked like he was on the level that we all knew he was, but we wanted the audience to get that experience as well. "It’s one of those things, there’s not very many moments on Monday Night Raw that continue to get replayed and live in social media meme form or people’s memories for years and years and years; that’s one of those that every 12 months, 18 months, it starts to come back up. I’ll remember that time, it was a really awesome moment and I was happy to be in there and share the ring with Ben. I think hopefully it helped a new audience experience him. "Obviously what he ended up becoming in AEW with PAC and his success globally even after he left WWE, I hope what we did that night was something that maybe opened some eyes to how great he really was." (TJ Jefferson)