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 suited to a shorter format, the 35-year-old was also a fan of moving WrestleMania to a two-night event. Stating that WrestleMania 35, which lasted over seven hours, was too much and a four-hour show is a solid run time for WrestleMania. 

“Well, the longer it got, the worse it was,” Rollins said of the previous 1-night WrestleMania format. “And the one in question is the New York WrestleMania which literally, from the pre-show to the finale was like seven straight hours and that is obnoxious, that is way too much wrestling. And mind you, my wife won the main event that night. They didn’t go to the ring until after midnight. It’s just asinine and the crowd was tired. It caused such a catastrophe because the subways had shut down and no one could get back to where they were going.

“It was such chaos because we were out of MetLife in the Meadowlands. That is a whole bag of worms that opened up from that so yeah, man it’s no fun. And that main event which was awesome and super historic suffered from just the crowd being drained. They wanted to be there for everything but you only have so much energy. You know what I mean? You can only put so much caffeine into your body before your heart explodes.”

“I think seven hours is just too long. You know, I think WrestleMania four hours is solid. That’s a solid number once a year four hours, I can live with that. Seven hours? I don’t know, pick your poison.”

On Saturday Seth Rollins finally saw his WrestleMania opponent revealed, as Cody Rhodes made his emotional return to WWE to defeat The Visionary in one of the highlights of the WrestleMania weekend. 

H/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.