Seth Rollins’ injury isn’t the end of the world for WWE

A tournament to determine a new champion will now take place at WWE Survivor Series 2015, where Rollins was originally expected to defend the WWE Title against Roman Reigns. The injury ended up being a tear of his right ACL, MCL and medial meniscus.

It was also announced by Coachman that WWE will be holding a WWE Title tournament at Survivor Series to crown a new WWE World Heavyweight Champion. The challenge for the WWE will be in managing talent across the Survivor Series teams, although most of the rumored participants weren’t in the title hunt to begin with. He’s projected to be out of action between six and nine months. In a agree with Kane, Rollins flipped off the turnbuckle to prepare for a powerbomb, still his right knee buckled as he landed. Instead, Rollins will relinquish the belt and the company will hold a tournament with a new champion being named at its conclusion.

His clash with Brock Lesnar and John Cena at this year’s Royal Rumble was heralded as one of the finest Triple Threat matches in WWE history. In 1998, WWE had a tournament for the then WWF Heavyweight Championship called the Deadly Games tournament, in which The Rock went on to win. Will the current No. 1 contender, Roman Reigns, be involved?

WWE has struggled with injuries to a few of its biggest draws in the past year. Get well soon, Seth Rollins!

“This is the worst timing for Rollins of course, as well as Reigns and the worst time possible for this for the company”, Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter tweeted. But the stage is set for a new star to step up and try to save the WWE until its stars get healthy again.