The spot with Seth Rollins and the fan was planned.

A viral clip of Seth Rollins has circulated on social media over the years from his days on the independent wrestling scene as Tyler Black.

The clip is from a match Rollins had in IWA Mid-South. He wrestled Matt Sydal, and they brawled around the ringside area, which made fans disperse. One fan went over to the ring post, and Rollins catapulted himself off the fan’s chest and moonsaulted onto Sydal.

Rollins appeared on The Kittle Things and revealed that the spot was planned. He shared that the fan goes by Timothy Regal and is a commentator for the SCW Pro promotion. SCW Pro is co-run by Marek Brave, who runs the Black and Brave Wrestling Academy with Rollins.

“It was in Midlothian, Illinois, working for IWA Mid-South — it might have been Hammond, Indiana — I can’t remember. Somewhere in there.” He continued, “This guy’s not an ordinary big guy. If you look at the shape of his body, his belly kind of has a plateau. It’s like a mesa… He’s a friend of mine. I’ve known him for years. Speaking of SCW, small world, he does live commentary at the SCW shows. His name is Timothy Regal.” Rollins continued, “For some reason I was like, I think I can do a moonsault off of your belly. But I need you to be stationary. I designed this idea where we’d go to the outside and if you fight near the fans, they usually scurry from their chairs. So I was like, ‘Let’s fight near you, but when you get up, just move yourself around to this ring post. Position yourself flat, flush against the ring post, so that when I jump off of you, you don’t move,’ because I’m like, ‘You ain’t got no balance. You’re gonna fall over in a second.’ I practiced it a little bit during the day, in the sense that I was like, ‘Okay, stand here,’ and I kind of box jumped onto his belly, and I’m like, ‘Alright, I can do this.’ I never practiced the flip. I was 19. I didn’t care. I was like, ‘If I land on my head, who cares?’ I was impervious to pain so yeah, we practiced it a couple times in the day and then, at the hour, we put him there and here we are, 20-some years later still talking about it.” Seth added, “He didn’t say anything in the moment but later on, as happy as he’s going to be, because we mentioned him on this podcast, he was so ecstatic that day because DVD was going viral at that point. This was pre-internet so, the clip only came back later when people started to look because it was 2005, so people were still just trading DVDs. He was like, ‘Oh, when the DVD goes out, I’m gonna be famous.’ He was so excited to be a part of it.”

Rollins was last on WWE programming in August 2026 when he fell in defeat to Roman Reigns in the World Heavyweight Title match at SummerSlam night two. He returned to the ring in September for WWE’s South America house show tour.