Last week, we learned that Roman Reigns essentially walked out of WrestleMania after learning that The Miz had come to the WWE Performance Center while feeling unwell. That meant his match with WWE Champion Goldberg did not take place, and there's since been a lot of speculation about what this means for The Big Dog.
Well, he's now released a video statement about his decision and made it clear that we don't know the full story when it comes to his decision not to compete on the Grandest Stage of Them All.
"You already know what’s going on, it’s all over the news, the dirtsheets, whatever you wanna call them that I pulled out of WrestleMania. It’s funny because for years, people were like ‘don’t show up to WrestleMania, we don’t want you in it.’ There was a handful of dudes and haters that didn’t want me there but the moment I make a choice for me and my family, [I’m called] a coward, a sissy."
"You don’t know the whole story, all you know is what you think," he continued. "You don’t know what else is going on in my life. You don’t know if I have newborns, you don’t know if I have family in my household, older family." Reigns went on to apologise to fans for missing WrestleMania, and confirmed that while he was in Orlando for the tapings, he made his decision both for himself and his family.
Reigns is a cancer survivor, so WWE put him at serious risk asking him to compete, so he definitely made the right decision here.