Seth Rollins with strong claim that WWE Raw is ‘obnoxiously long’

Seth Rollins has hit out at Monday Night Raw and its current three-hour format. 

Monday Night Raw is WWE’s longest running show, having debuted in 1993 and extended to a two-hour run time for years later. In 2012, the show was extended further by making Raw a three-hour offering, something it continues to be to this day.

The three-hour concept has constantly been criticised by fans in the decade since it’s switch, and now Seth Rollins has admitted he’s not a fan of the format either. 

Speaking on the  Sports Illustrated Media Podcast Rollins feels that everything gets stretched in a three hour show and SmackDown’s two-hour length is much different. 

I think a three-hour show is just obnoxiously long every week. Everything gets stretched out, you know, and you’ve got to cram — you got to fill three hours of television, there’s just nothing to be done. You know, that’s just how it is. So I think two hours is a beautiful kind of number for a pro wrestling show. And I think it’s easier to make everything mean a little bit more.

“You know, on SmackDown when I was there last year, I hardly ever wrestled on television and so it was kind of a big deal. You look at Roman, he hardly ever wrestles on television, I think maybe a handful of times in the last year. So when he has matches at these pay-per-views, they feel like big deals and on RAW I’ve wrestled in like 26 five-star matches in the last two months.

It’s just been wild the amount of actual wrestling that I have to do and I’d love to avoid that but it is what it is. I like the fact that I get a lot more screen time on Mondays because you have the extra hour but yeah it’s a apples to oranges type thing.”

However, it’s not just Raw that Rollins believes would be better