The Rich Eisen Show Top 5: Seth Rollins Ranks the Best 4th of July BBQ Dishes

You cannot run a Seth Rollins guest spot without a Top 5, and the WWE superstar came armed with one built for the holiday weekend. His category, presented by Hyundai: the five must-have Fourth of July cookout foods. Then he dared the room to fight him about it.

Rollins started at the bottom with a side dish and no shame. "Number five, starting with a side dish, we're going baked beans," he said, admitting he does not even mind them straight from a can. "Just put them in a can, put them on the stove, let's go." At No. 4 he handed the only vegetable slot to corn on the cob, insisting it is the one green that matters on the Fourth, ideally with a little char on the edge.

His No. 3 pick doubled as a philosophy. Rollins went with watermelon, and argued it transcends the dessert category entirely. "It's more than a dessert. You can have it in between meals. It can be a palate cleanser. It can be an appetizer." His closing case was airtight. "Has anybody ever walked by a bowl of watermelon and not taken a slice? Absolutely not."

Then came the top two, which Rollins bundled together because they belong together. No. 2 went to cheeseburgers. No. 1, the crown, went to the hot dog. "The frankfurter, the wiener, whatever you want to call it," he said. The desk approved on the spot. "Can't argue with a single thing on this list. It's a perfect list."

With the ranking locked, the real debate opened, and it was all about the dog. Rollins keeps his simple most of the time. "If it's just me, I'm going straight mustard, onions, and maybe a little bit of dill relish if you got it. I'm not a ketchup guy." But he also revealed a secret weapon he smuggles across the country. Rollins swears by a chili sauce from a spot called Texas Hot Dogs back home in Altoona, Pennsylvania. "Whenever I fly home, I get some, I freeze it, bring it back," he said, describing it as a meat sauce that does not quite match anyone's idea of chili, beans included.

The room went to war over toppings from there. One voice held firm on plain mustard, no relish, no onions, though he made an exception for spicy brown mustard on a brat. And then came the take that stopped everything cold, a staffer who confessed to dressing his dog with ketchup and mayo. "It just goes together perfectly," he insisted, to open revulsion. Rollins took it all in stride, the way a man does when his list is already perfect. "Fourth of July is coming up," he said. "I can't wait to have a dog."