Seth Rollins wasn't always the successful WWE star we know him as today. There was a time when he was working hard and potentially never going to make it in pro wrestling.

Seth Rollins recently spoke to Pat McAfee where he detailed his tough beginnings before making it in WWE. For him, paying his use and earning a spot was very important.

“By the time I was 14, we’re talking Attitude Era. So We’re talking DX, Stone Cold, nWo, and WCW. And I was in love, I couldn’t do anything else. So we had a trampoline and me and my friends, we would just bounce around. We were putting on shows in our backyard.” “I wanted to get trained, I always wanted to get trained. I never wanted to be one of those guys who got into the industry and have kind of a blackball, like, oh, he never got trained, he just got in. Paying your dues, your respects for people who put in the time, and all that stuff.”

“So I actually went and got trained, I moved out to Philadelphia in a car, I packed up all my crap. I went out there and I was going to get trained by CM Punk. CM Punk, who was a big star in WWE and now works for the other company. No, but he — I didn’t have the money. I didn’t, I had no idea how to live on my own. Because I never went to college, I didn’t have like, I couldn’t even do my own laundry. I didn’t know what I was doing. I was an idiot.”

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Training with CM Punk ended up not being an option for the now WWE star as he just didn't have the money. As it turns out, training out of an old warehouse in Chicago led to him becoming the star he is today.

“I ended up not having the money, I ended up moving back. And so, I ended up training out a shipping warehouse in Chicago in the dead of winter in 2004. And so it was freezing cold, I trained the local independent guy, his name is Danny Daniels. Yeah, Double D. And he taught me everything I know about the business for the most part.”