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Roman Reigns Speaks On Recent Comments From Undertaker and Goldberg
The Undertaker was recently criticised for calling current WWE Superstars ‘soft’, saying how he liked it when ‘men were men’ during an appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast.
“In that era of guys, too, those were men. You go into a dressing room nowadays, and it’s a lot different.”
“I remember walking into my first real dressing room, and all I saw were some crusty f****** men. Half of them had guns and knives in their bags. S*** got handled back then. Now you walk in, there’s guys playing video games and f****** making sure they look pretty. It’s evolution, guess. I don’t know what it is, but I just like those eras, man. I liked when men were men.”
Earlier this week Goldberg was interviewed by Corey Graves on WWE’s ‘After The Bell’ podcast, where he agreed with Taker’s comments, even telling WWE fans to ‘get thicker skin’.
Current Universal Champion Roman Reigns responded to the legend’s comments during an interview with Sports Illustrated where he gave his own views on the locker room playing video games.
“We do the same job,” said Reigns. “It’s not like the bumps got any worse or any better.”
Reigns continued, “You’re always hearing ‘a drop kick was a finish back in my time.’ A dropkick is like the second move you see in a wrestling match nowadays. We’re doing a lot more. And sometimes I think we’re a lot more physical. And because the audience has seen so much more, we have to do a little more in order to peak their interest, in order to show them something different. What we call a false finish, a pin that people believe will be the final move of a match, we go through those like Steamboat-Savage. You’ll see that on a SmackDown. You’ll see 15 false finishes on a SmackDown.
It’s strange. I really feel like he misspoke. Because Mark is a really good guy. He’s very knowledgeable. Obviously, he has a ton of respect for the business. Goldberg is just Goldberg. Who cares? But he’s talking about guns and knives in the locker room. Come on. You guys travel just like we did. Did you really get that stuff through security? TSA was just letting everything happen back then?”
The Tribal Chief continued by giving his thoughts on the WWE locker room playing video games.
“I choose to play video games sometimes on my own time. I don’t do it at work. As you can see, some of my character is based around it. I’ve always been one that networked and politicked and tried to communicate and work while I’m at work. Some guys choose to stay in the locker room. And for guys like the New Day who are überly talented, they can get away with that.”
“I hope the younger guys in the locker room don’t fall into that because we’re not all the same. I have to put my whole mind into work as I come to work on a Friday. Sometimes my wife has to tell me to shut it off. She’ll be like, ‘Stop, be at home, be present.’ Because I can’t turn it off sometimes and I think to be at the highest level of anything, you have to be borderline obsessive. So, yeah, I don’t always think there’s room for video games in the locker room, but when we’re running our regular touring system and it’s a live event and there’s nowhere to go, you got kicked out of the hotel because you couldn’t get the late check out, you already hit the gym, you already picked up your food and you’re sitting in the locker room, I’d rather my guys be playing video games than breaking into a bag of some sort.”
“It’s a different time and I think we’re smarter,” Reigns said. “I think you’re gonna see that from the financial side of it, from how we save our money, how we prepare for the future, having a life after the business when we can’t fall down anymore to our actual health.”
Reigns finished the interview by saying ‘I think it was just like a retired guy trying to sound gangster’