Roman Reigns made his WWE main roster debut 12 years ago at Survivor Series 2012. He is still competing at the top level and will main event this Saturday’s Survivor Series PLE.
Reigns is 39 years old and still takes his leukemia medication, as confirmed by him after WrestleMania 40 – Night 1 during the post-show press conference.
On the SI Media podcast, Reigns was asked if his in-ring retirement is near. The OTC said there are many stories left for him to tell in WWE and he will continue to do it until he’s not capable of keeping himself in top shape.
Here’s what the former WWE Champion said:
“Well, I guess it depends on what day you ask me and how I’m feeling that day, you know? Because the real answer is right there — yeah, sometimes the body feels like a train wreck. 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 guys all over the world, year after year.
Sometimes, no matter what you do, you just wake up sore, and your body hurts. On those days, I’ll tell you, man, I think to myself, ‘What’s going on here? Is everything good? Maybe we could stop.’
But then, like you said, there’s just so much meat left on the bone. There’s so much I’m learning — not only about myself but about the performance in general. How to manipulate them, how to get better at them, how to control the crowd better — all these different things.
There are so many stories left to tell, and with new family members coming in, it’s one of those deals where, as long as I can… you know how athletes say, ‘As long as you can continue to practice.’
As long as I feel good enough to practice, then I can play. And as long as I feel good enough to train and keep myself physically in shape to go out there and fall down — because that’s the thing, it’s the falling down — then I’m good. If we could figure out how to stop falling down and taking bumps, man, we’d bring in the (stunt) double and just run Hollywood, you know?
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 something about having the crowd right there, in the palm of your hand, that you just can’t emulate. You can’t duplicate it. That’s WWE.”
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