Backstage Update On Seth Rollins Injury Angle And WWE SummerSlam Sunday Main Event

Thankfully, it was all an angle to set up what's now been dubbed the 'Ruse of the Century'.

Questions surrounding the legitimacy, or at least the severity, of Rollins injury began to surface in the hours after it happened. This despite many people within the company being under the impression that Seth was significantly hurt.

Rollins showed up to WWE Evolution the very next night on crutches. He went on the Rich Eisen show and declared that he'd be out of action for a while, with his main goal of being back in time for WrestleMania 42. He was even filmed in public walking alongside his daughter with the aid of crutches and while wearing a knee brace.

Clearly Seth was willing to go to great lengths to get people to buy into the story, as WWE top brass played everything extremely close to the chest.

Who knew what and when did they know it?

"The details around whether Rollins did have any sort of injury are still unknown," Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select reported Saturday night.

"Within the days following the situation, people that would usually be talking weren't, and silence sometimes speaks louder than words. By the time Rollins appeared on Rich Eisen's show, many in the company believed it was a work. However, there were a lot of producers, backstage personnel and talent who stressed that they were not told specifically of such."

Ross Sapp further stated that the plan for Rollins to cash-in his Money in the Bank contract at SummerSlam had tentatively been in place since before Saturday Night's Main Event, and the company clearly decided to go through with it despite word of the angle making its way into the press.

There's also word that creative plans for Sunday night's main event between John Cena and Cody Rhodes are being kept quiet. The Never Seen 17-Time World Champion abruptly ended his heel run on Friday's episode of SmackDown, and declared that the old John Cena would be back for this Street Fight.

There are some who are skeptical, myself included, as to whether Cena was being genuine during his promo on Friday. We'll just have to wait and see how things shake out down on the field at MetLife Stadium.