They had pitched the story to break up The Shield a few months earlier and we were like, "No, man. We're not ready. We're not ready for that." Like, we'd been bad guys, the crowd was really starting to get behind us, we wanted to be good guys. We wanted a longer run. We felt like we had a lot more in the tank. And so we had a match with the Wyatt Family at Elimination Chamber, then we go to WrestleMania, we're full good guys at that point, we do two six-man tags with Evolution right after that. We're awesome. We're on cloud nine. We're feeling great about things, the three of us.
We show up to Raw [the day of the betrayal] and they knew that if they gave us a heads up, we would say no and we would try to find a way to fight out of the breakup. So they brought us into the office and they just said, "Here's what we're gonna do tonight." Tonight. It was also in Indianapolis, by the way. Lot of Shield history in that town.
And when we walked out of the room, it was like, "What do we do? Can we stop this? Are we doing the right thing?" There was a lot of tension there. It was mostly that we had found our comfort zone as a trio and we were really relying on each other and we enjoyed the process and we enjoyed performing together.
— Seth Rollins on The Shield only finding out about the breakup and betrayal the day of, and how it ultimately ended up being the best move for all of them
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