Roman Reigns Justifies Hitting Seth Rollins With A Steel Chair During WRESTLEMANIA XL Match With Cody Rhodes

Roman Reigns Justifies Hitting Seth Rollins With A Steel Chair During WRESTLEMANIA XL Match With Cody Rhodes

Roman Reigns reflects on his decision to hit Seth Rollins with a steel chair during his WrestleMania XL match with Cody Rhodes, explaining why, "Any time I have a chance to f*** him up, I’m gonna take it."

By JoshWilding - Nov 28, 2024 10:11 AM EST
Filed Under: WWE

When Roman Reigns' Bloodline started searching for a fifth man ahead of this weekend's Survivor Series: WarGames, Seth Rollins made it clear he had zero interest in ever teaming up with the OTC again. 

Friday night's SmackDown made it clear Reigns feels the same way and we still expect them to reignite their rivalry somewhere down the line.

At WrestleMania XL, Reigns put his Undisputed WWE Universal Championship on the line against Cody Rhodes. In the closing moments of the match, the Head of the Table had the opportunity to finish off the American Nightmare but instead decided to hit Rollins with a steel chair (a throwback to the night Rollins turned on The Shield in 2014). 

Many believe that cost Reigns the title and, in a new interview, he justified his decision. 

"Any time I have a chance to f*** him up, I’m gonna take it," Reigns said. "He’s a constant reminder and a lesson to myself on who to trust and how to trust them, and if you can’t, how to keep them. And that’s where I like to keep him: a chair’s length away."

"Any time I have a chance to pull the trigger on him, I’m going to," he added. 

Despite the hatred Reigns has for Rollins, he still looks back fondly at The Shield's game-changing debut in 2012. "I would say, based off of how it all shaped out, The Shield debuting was one of the greatest transitional situations of three young talent coming in, taking the company by the neck, and this is what you have today."

In the same interview, Reigns opened up on where things stand between him and Paul Heyman after the Wiseman returned last week alongside CM Punk. 

"Paul’s been incredibly shady if you don’t ask me. I’ve seen some of the speculation, ‘Well you didn’t answer his phone calls’ and this and that. But at the end of the day when I take my leave there’s no question what I’m doing. I’m recessing back to family, change the hats, put on that fatherhood hat to refocus. That way I can come in and come back and dominate and run the show and represent my family at the highest capacity, at the highest standard possible."

"So there’s no question when I leave, the question is what happened with him. There’s a lot of things that we just haven’t had the time to dive into and that’s just the train wreck of a return that it’s been for me. I thought wearing the crown was a hell of a burden, trying to put all the pieces together when power behooves you is incredibly difficult. So right now, I have just as many questions for the Wiseman as you."

You can watch the full interview with Reigns in the player below.

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