Roman Reigns was a recent guest on the In This Corner podcast; you can read a few transcribed highlights (courtesy of CBS Sports) and listen to the interview below:
Roman Reigns comments on his relationship with John Cena:
“I’ll be completely honest: Me and John have always been cordial, but I would not say we are close friends by any means. There is a business respect, but I think that’s what makes this so special that we’re truly competing against each other and I think people see that.
But it’s not like a situation where I’m taking anything he says to heart because I don’t really care what he thinks about me. If you care for someone and they knife you, it’s going to hurt. It will hurt your feelings and can depress you. But when you don’t really care about somebody or their opinion, it doesn’t affect you. And that’s how it is with me and John.”
Reigns comments on being quick to respond to Cena’s dig about his zipper being down during a recent promo on WWE RAW:
“John being John, if anything presents itself, which I feel is fair game if it’s there to take it, and he did. Luckily, that’s one thing of just over the years going back and forth in locker rooms, I have a quick rebuttal with little things like that. It was just something that, thank God I was ready for it, but really he shocked me in bringing up. I thought I had it closed up the whole time but apparently not. I was peaking at him, I guess.”
Reigns comments on Fandango’s advice about having thick skin helping him in WWE:
“He was one of the top guys when I first broke in, and he said, ‘You have to be a tough guy to run around like a sissy and wear tight pants. I didn’t think about it, but it slowly set in like, ‘He’s right.’ He has thick skin and he’s willing to do just about anything and he doesn’t get embarrassed.”
