Bronson Reed’s Tsunami Barrage on Seth Rollins Was a Last-Minute Triple H Call

Bronson Reed has faced a challenging year, missing both Elimination Chamber and WrestleMania 40. Despite these setbacks, he decided to make the most out of it as he destroyed Seth Rollins on RAW a couple of months ago and it appears that Triple H had a hand in his Tsunami barrage.

On the August 5 episode of WWE Raw, Bronson Reed launched a vicious attack on former World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. Reed delivered multiple Tsunami splashes, resulting in Rollins being rushed to the hospital as Rollins was coughing blood and Rollins was written off WWE television.

During a conversation on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Reed said he wasn’t originally supposed to deliver six Tsunamis to Seth Rollins. Instead, it was Paul “Triple H” Levesque’s idea to do more. As the segment was happening, Rollins was told that Reed would keep hitting the move.

Reed explained that he was meant to do a lot less. At first, the crowd didn’t react much to the first two moves. But when he went for the third, people started to react with confusion, and by the fourth, they were really interested. By the fifth Tsunami, fans were chanting for more. Reed was happy that after the sixth move, the crowd began singing Rollins’ entrance music, showing how much they liked him.

Reed pointed out that the Tsunami move has become well-known among fans. He mentioned that seeing it live is a different experience compared to watching it on TV. He had never done six Tsunamis in a row before, so it was a big deal for him.

‘‘No (I was not originally supposed to give six Tsunamis to Seth Rollins). No. I think it was supposed to be significantly less, and then the way that it turned out with Hunter’s vision is it just was more and more and more and it was one of those things where you’re listening to the audience and you can just feel a change in the audience as I was doing it. Hit the first two, they’re sort of booing. It looks like that’s it and then I go up for the third one and people sort of like, what the hell’s going on here? Then I go up for the fourth one, they can’t comprehend what’s happening and by the fifth one, they’re chanting for more. There’s like blood lust amongst the crowd for someone that they love as well. They love Seth Rollins and I was glad that it actually ended up working where after the sixth one, I left and they still started chanting, singing his music that he comes out to so, that also worked…

Exactly (they were chanting ‘one more time’). As much as they love someone like Seth Rollins or any of the top guys that are super over, I guess that move now has its own lore, the Tsunami, and I always tell people, ‘If you get to see it live, it’s different to seeing it on TV.’ It’s very impactful so I guess six in a row, which I’ve never done, was a lot.

No, no (it was not finalized that I’d be giving six Tsunamis to Rollins when I first went to the ring). As it’s happening (is when I’m informing Rollins that I’d be continuously doing the move). So, it’s one of those things like, yeah, he has to be willing to be able to be there and I have to be willing do more but, it had definitely worked out and it made for such a great moment in television. I think I had so much buzz around that and then people online as well saying they haven’t seen something like that in WWE for so long where you can take someone and just propel them in one night with just one segment. Not a match, nothing else, just brutality.

Seth Rollins returned during last week’s episode of Monday Night RAW and cost Bronson Reed his match against Braun Strowman. Rollins would then challenge Reed to a match during RAW this week, so we’ll have to wait and see how their feud will develop in the coming weeks, as fans expect their match to take place at the Crown Jewel Premium Live Event on November 2nd.