Ahead of tonight's WrestleMania 37 night two event at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, "The Head of the Table" in WWE continues to make the media rounds to promote the two-night extravaganza, where he is scheduled to defend his WWE Universal Championship against Edge and Daniel Bryan in a triple-threat main event.
During a recent interview with WWE Now India, "The Tribal Chief" spoke about the significance of this year's WrestleMania after missing last year's show, his thoughts on sharing the ring with WWE legends such as Edge and Daniel Bryan this year and how he has been in the headline role on "The Grandest Stage of Them All" quite a few times.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview.
On how many main events Roman Reigns has been in at WrestleMania: "You know, this is going on my fifth main event for WrestleMania. It could have been a sixth main event WrestleMania which has to be a record. But honestly, that’s something that I don’t really care. I don’t look at the record books. I don’t feel like I’m ever competing with anybody. I’m just competing with myself. I’m trying to best myself and just completely raised my game and always up the level that I’m at."
On if this year's WrestleMania is special due to missing last year's and because of WWE legends like Edge and Daniel Bryan also being part of the match: "The fact that I missed last year – to miss the biggest one of the years tough. So, to be able to get back in the swing of things and be able to perform at this WrestleMania, and that also be able to do it with such a legend like Edge. A huge amount of respect to Edge & Daniel Bryan. But to be able to see these guys his comeback story to see everything, the struggle that they’ve gone through the adversity that they’ve overcome, to be able to showcase our talents and our storytelling ability and bring the biggest fight to the WrestleMania stage possible."
On his strategy for holding onto the Universal Title in a match where he doesn't even have to be pinned or submitted to lose it: "You can tell everybody I’ve been telling them I’m going to smash everybody. But the key is to kind of divide and conquer. I have to keep those two away from each other. Because huge that’s the biggest speed bump in this match for me. It is the fact that they can beat each other and still beat me. So for me, there hadn’t been a man to be able to keep the knees, shoulders pinned on the mat for more than 3 seconds. So, for them to have the ability to beat each other and become a universal champion – that’s a huge problem for me. So, I have to really assert myself early. Get rid of at least one of them focus on single one out and try to win as fast as possible. It’s real Lion stuff that we’re gonna have to be the king of the jungle out there and take over quick and hopefully take it home fast."
Check out the complete Roman Reigns interview with WWE Now India below, and make sure to join us here at Rajah.com tonight for live WrestleMania 37 night two results coverage from Tampa, FL.
(H/T to ITNWWE.com for transcribing the above quotes.)
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