WWE SmackDown Superstar Sheamus recently spoke to the Daily Mail, where he discussed Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns’ rise as the biggest star in WWE.
Below is what he said:
“Yeah, I mean he has the luxury of wrestling 5 times a year. You know what I mean? That makes a big star.
Let’s be honest, before he went away with COVID, people didn’t give a sh*t about him.
He was the big babyface who was wrestling Goldberg and nobody really cared. I think in the same way it benefitted me to come back and wrestle in that empty arena at ThunderDome where people got to see how physical I really can be and allowed me to have that more freedom and settle into my own skin and just say: ‘screw it, I’m going to go out there and have fun, do what I’m gonna do.’
In the same sense it benefitted him, because he was at a point where it was forced down people’s throats and he got to go away and come back in this different character.”
Sheamus also talked about The Bloodline getting a segment which ran for almost 40 minutes on SmackDown at Madison Square Garden (the segment that drew over 3 million viewers) and said that it’s a luxury for Reigns, but other guys on the roster deserve it too.
Below is what The Celtic Warrior said:
“Obviously there’s the luxury of getting all the storyline time and everything. I feel like he’s made the most of the opportunity he’s had, but I feel like there’s guys on the roster begging for that amount of time to tell their own stories and that’s one of the only things that’s going.
The rest of the roster needs story time too. With MSG [Madison Square Garden] a couple of weeks ago, they went 20 minutes over. So me and Theory had two segs which ended up turning into three small segs on the floor, you know, so that’s tough as well to go out and do that.
It’s definitely benefitted him a lot and Heyman and the story they have to tell, all within that family and stuff, but as I said there’s plenty of other people on the roster that could do with story time as well. I’m not taking anything away from him, I’m just saying.”
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