WWE SmackDown star and a former two times WWE NXT champion Karrion Kross who is currently active in a feud with Drew McIntyre recently talked about the current WWE Universal Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns and explained why he believed his current Run is different from the era of Vince McMahon.
Roman Reigns won the WWE Universal Championship at the Payback pay per view event of 2020. Since then he never dropped the title, never lost a match, he is already being considered as the most dominant World Champion in WWE history. He defeated everyone that challenged him for the title and he is still holding the Championship pretty strongly.
Karrion Kross Thinks Roman Reigns’ Current Run Is Different From Vince McMahon’s Time
At WrestleMania 38 he won both World Championships WWE and he became the Undisputed World champion of WWE. He defeated Brock Lesnar at the event to earn the WWE championship and he was already carrying the WWE Universal title. Since then he is holding both World championships at the same time which limited the opportunity for wrestlers to compete for World titles as he does not defend the championships regularly.
A lot of fans believed that he would defend his championships more after the takeover of Triple H, at least he would drop one WWE World Championship. But it does not look like he would drop any title before WrestleMania 39 at least. So honestly speaking, nothing changed much. But his recent storyline with Sami Zayn is pretty entertaining.
Karrion Kross who is currently active in a feud with Drew McIntyre recently spoke to The Ringer Wrestling show where he talked about the current WWE Universal Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns and explained why he believed his current Run is different from the era of Vince McMahon. He said;
“Well, I don’t know if I’ve ever said this publicly but, the first time I came out with the mask, there were people laughing in the audience. They were laughing and I always remember getting into this business and thinking to myself, when this is all said and done, I wanna leave this place a better place than it was before I came in. You wanna make it better. You wanna make people around you better, you wanna make the product better, you want your performances to get better.
“For me, I’m always chasing the perfect match. That’s like my wrestling philosophy, I’m chasing the perfect story and I’ve just always wanted to contribute my best foot forward artistically and be work-driven. When I came out and I heard people laughing, I was like, you know, what I’m doing right now, to me at the time presently, it felt like I was betraying everything that I wanted to contribute to what I was doing [for] the fans because the fan in me is still alive.
“That’s how I know how to read an audience. If you become too high up on your horse and you disconnect from them, ‘I’ll them what they’re gonna like,’ that’s never gonna work. So the difference between then and now, tonight I walked out and they were singing our theme music, the entire audience was singing our theme music. That was a moment we wanted to get to before the pandemic and I got that tonight in a packed house in Philadelphia so that was incredible so I would say that is the major difference between last time and tonight.”
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