WWE SmackDown star and the current WWE Undisputed Universal Heavyweight champion Roman Reigns who is also a former WWE United States champion recently talked about the new contract he signed with WWE. He also discussed about his upcoming schedule with the promotion.
Roman Reigns is currently the major face of WWE who is holding both of the World championships right now. He had been undefeated since the Payback pay per view event of 2020 and recently he is celebrated his 2 year of world title reign on Friday Night Smackdown. Definitely he is one of the biggest attractions of the promotion right now.
Roman Reigns Talks His New Contract, Also Discusses His Upcoming Schedule
But his journey of becoming the biggest face of WWE today was not easy at all. When WWE tried to establish him as the next phase of the promotion back in 2015, the fans were not ready to accept him at all. The constantly booed him in spite of him being a face.
But after he successfully fought leukaemia and made his return to action, the fans started supporting him.WWE understood it was the right moment to build him as the World Champion. What they did was turned him heel and he won the WWE Universal Championship. Since then he did never lost a single match.
Roman Reigns who is also a former WWE United States champion recently spoke to the Sports Illustrated where he talked about the new contract he signed with WWE. He also discussed about his upcoming schedule with the promotion. He said;
“I think the main thing is when you’ve been on the road for almost ten years straight and someone who’s been at the highest level, the main event level, you know, I’ve ran a full schedule for a long time and even before we went to FOX, it changed where it was SmackDown on Friday and then we’d do two live events, Saturday, Sunday and then there was the occasional Monday Night Raw so that’s a four-night schedule which still isn’t as bad as it used to be.
“I mean, we used to do Friday, Saturday, Sunday live events, Monday Night Raw, then we would take SmackDown Tuesday so we were only getting a day-and-a-half because you know, we fly out — this is before private travel and buses and all that stuff so, we would fly out Wednesday morning, get home so we’d get half of Wednesday. You’d get home and you’re beat, tired.
“You got half of that Wednesday, then you got Thursday to just to handle personal life and family and everything that comes with that and then you’re back out Friday so, for me it was really just trying to balance everything and someone who has five children, we’re in a very critical portion of their lives where they’re so young and this is where we build these relationships and these bonds and they get to know who their dad is so,” Says Roman Reigns.
“For me, it was extremely important that I can build, you know, my fatherhood as the priority and the number one hat that I wear and WWE, Vince [McMahon], everybody was really good about accommodating that and making sure to keep me in the WWE family.”
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