Roman Reigns Acknowledges If He Thinks About WWE Retirement
Fans of Roman Reigns will be happy to know the Original Tribal Chief feels there’s “a lot of meat on the bone” when it comes to his WWE career.
Roman Reigns has worked a reduced WWE schedule over the last couple of years. While Roman held the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship for 1,316 days, he was often criticized by fans for not wrestling often enough.
In 2023, Reigns competed in 11 matches, while he has only had five matches in 2024, including main eventing WrestleMania 40 on both nights.
The good thing about working a reduced schedule is that Reigns isn’t beating up his body that much and he can recover better, which should lengthen his career. At 39 years old and 12 years on the WWE main roster, Reigns likely has many more years ahead of him as a main event performer who will go down as one of the greatest WWE superstars of all time.
During an interview with Jimmy Traina of the SI Media Podcast, Roman Reigns was asked if he gave any thought to retiring as a pro wrestler any time soon.
“I guess it depends on what day you ask me and how I’m feeling that day. Sometimes the body feels like a train wreck, and I can vividly picture Sheamus hitting me with a chair somewhere over in Europe. You know what I mean? I’ve done that dance with a lot of the guys all over the world year over year.
Sometimes no matter what you do, you just wake up and you’re sore and your body hurts. So sometimes, on those days, I tell you, man, what’s going on here? You know, everything’s good.
Maybe we could stop, but there’s just so much meat left on the bone. There’s so much to the performances that I’m learning, not only about myself, but just the performance in general, and how to manipulate them, how to get better at them, how to control the crowd better. Just all these different things, so many different stories to tell, new family members coming in.”
Roman Reigns Loves The Interaction With WWE Fans
For the last four years, Roman Reigns was booed by WWE fans as one of the biggest heels in the company. However, he’s now in a babyface role as a beloved legend and he went on to say that the interaction with WWE fans is unlike anything else.
“It’s one of those deals where as long as I can, kind of like you hear athletes, as long as you can continue to practice, like as long as you feel good enough to practice, then I can play. As long as I feel good enough to continue to train and make myself physically in shape to go out there and fall down.
That’s the thing, just falling down, and if we can figure out how not to fall down and take bumps, then, man, bring in the double, you know, like cut, you know, we just run Hollywood, I guess.
But there’s just something about being out there in the middle of the storm, that simultaneous live reaction. Making movies is very cool, but there’s just something about having that crowd right there in the palm of your hand that you just can’t emulate. You can’t duplicate it. It’s WWE, and that’s it.”
In the same interview, Roman Reigns said that he still wants to face The Rock in a WWE ring as long as it makes sense in the story they are trying to tell.
Up next for Roman Reigns is WWE Survivor Series in Vancouver as he teams up with The Usos, Sami Zayn & CM Punk against The Bloodline’s Solo Sikoa, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa, Jacob Fatu & Bronson Reed in a WarGames match.