Former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion Cody Rhodes who recently made his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38 recently talked about WWE Undisputed Universal Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns and discussed his rise in WWE.
Roman Reigns is currently the face of WWE and he had been the right successor of the previous face of WWE John Cena. But he is rise to be the top star of the promotion had never been so easy. There was a time when fans totally loathed him. The journey of receiving X-Pac heat to one of the favourite of the fans was not very easy for him.
Cody Rhodes Discusses The Rise Of Roman Reigns In WWE
When WWE decided to make him the face of the promotion, he was still a new wrestler and fans were not used to see him as the top guy. WWE started to over push him which fans could not digest at all. Naturally he started to get X-Pac heat. But WWE did not stop try to push him as the top star.
Slowly, he received the trust of the fans and since he won his fifth World Championship that was the WWE Universal Championship at the Payback pay per view event of 2020, he remained undefeated and at WrestleMania 38 he became the Undisputed WWE Universal champion.
Cody Rhodes who recently made his return to WWE at WrestleMania 38 recently spoke on The Bump where he talked about WWE Undisputed Universal Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns and discussed his rise in WWE. He said;
“I think it’s a feather in the cap of what Roman Reigns is doing. When I left here, Roman Reigns was on top, and I think Roman Reigns was experiencing some of the negative byproducts of being on top, some of the pushback that a new face and a new individual (experiences).
“But the thing that makes a new champion in any company, in anything, is consistency. And when he said ‘Dallas, Texas, acknowledge me’, and whether they’re supposed to boo, cheer, whatever that might be, they acknowledged him. You want to know a term that’s often really overused in what we do? It’s ‘over.’ ‘Oh, this guy is so over. She’s so over.’
“No, over is years and years and years of work where fans follow you. Part of my song is ‘I’ll follow you until the end’, that’s how I feel about the fans, and hopefully that’s a mutual thing. He has truly gotten over, via consistency and via hard work. And what he has going now with Paul Heyman and the Usos, it’s a very, I don’t want to use this word because I don’t want to sound like a, gotta be careful with my language here, is an intimidating presence.”
H/T and transcribed by Wrestling Inc.