Roman Reigns is indeed the biggest star of WWE right now who replaced John Cena as the face of the promotion. He has many big wrestling records listed by his name including the biggest record of a 1300+ days of World Championship reign which ended at WrestleMania XL.
The first time Vince McMahon saw him set his mind that he wanted to build him as the next face of the promotion. The path of building him as the successor of John Cena was really not easy. At a point fans were not at all ready to accepting as the face of WWE. No matter whatever he did, he was not getting any positive reaction.
Revealed! What Did Roman Reign Say Triple H At Their First meeting?
But finally he proved everyone wrong after winning the WWE Universal Championship in 2020. Vince McMahon's mission was finally accomplished. The current WWE Chief Content Officer Triple H talk about Roman Reigns and shared praise for him. While speaking on The Roommates Show with Brunson and Josh Hart, Triple H revealed how it felt to meet him for the first time;
Roman Reigns Faced Triple H on the Main Event of WrestleMania 32
“The first time I ever met Roman Reigns, I had just taken over and started what would become our developmental system, and he had just transitioned over from football to being in our developmental system." Feed the former 14 times WWE World Champion.
"The first day I met him, I sat down with him for 20 minutes just to get to know him a little bit. Walked out of the interview and, at the time, Dusty Rhodes was working in developmental with me, I walked up to Dusty and said, ‘If that kid is not the biggest star we ever have in ten years, I don’t know what we’re doing. Holy sh*t. He has everything.’
Roman Reigns Had a 1300+ Days of World Title Reign
"When he walked in the room, you couldn’t help but look at him and go, ‘Who is that?’ He has an innate X-factor charisma. Sometimes that happens, sometimes it’s the guy you don’t see it in them, ‘He’s good. He’s athletic. He’s this and that,’ but it’s really the character stuff. Sometimes it clicks and sometimes it doesn’t.”
Roman Reigns is presently active in a feud with his cousin Solo Sikoa who are a claims to be the New Tribal Chief. Roman threw a challenge for Solo for the RAW Premier on Netflix, and this huge man is going to be a Tribal Combat at WWE RAW Netflix. We can definitely expect Roman to feature in a huge match at WrestleMania 41 as well. However, the opponent of Roman for WrestleMania 41 is still unknown.
H/t to Fightful