5 times an injury revived a wrestling career

#3 An Architect Builds his Own Rules!

Seth Rollins glorious three-year long redemption began with a shocking return unlike any other.

As mentioned in the opening, injury returns normally always end up with a heroic welcome back for the superstars that got shelved. Even if you went down as a despicable heel, you return as a much-loved babyface.

The flimsy reason to justify this is that between injury, the villainous scum has found his heart and realized how much the fans and spotlight mean to him. It's a generic and oft-abused excuse for return.

That is why despite its controversial nature the return of Seth Rollins in 2016 was an undeniable masterstroke. Barring that his slow burn face turn was a bit muddled due to the Triple H attack later in the year and Balor's unfortunate story derailing injury.

But Rollins like his mentor returned to much fanfare after a knee injury that took him out, just before his big title match at Survivor Series in 2015. Yet that fanfare was much short-lived, as the very in tune with his character Rollins decided to call out the foolish fan support.

He made it back on his own will and was still the chicken heel that had left, an injury wasn't going to make him forget, us forget, or his brothers forget what he had done. He broke up the Shield and there was a long way to go to his redemption.

The beautiful story they told, with its unfortunate hiccups has made Rollins quite the multi-layered character alongside Dean Ambrose. So it'll be fun to see once the tables are turned on Ambrose's return.