Roman Reigns addresses his WWE goals and future
As he heads into another WrestleMania main event, Roman Reigns doesn’t sound like he intends to retire any time soon.
Reigns will headline WrestleMania 42 night two this Sunday when he challenges CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. In advance of the match, Reigns spoke with YouTuber Nico Leonard and addressed whether he still has any WWE goals he hopes to achieve. Reigns is no longer focused on first-time accomplishments but instead wants to show the difference between himself and everyone else on the roster.
“I’m very happy with what I’ve done over the past few years, and I could hang my head on that. But I know I still have more to offer,” he said. “There’s not any accolade I can win in wrestling now, but I can take a championship and then showcase what happens to a championship when you put it on a megastar. And that’s my goal is to showcase the difference between when I have a title and when everybody else has one.”
Reigns’s current WWE contract is believed to be coming up soon with it set to expire after WrestleMania 42. He isn’t preparing to wind down his career, though, with Reigns feeling young at 40 years old. There’s still a lot more he wants to do creatively in WWE — and he is well aware of the financial incentive to continue.
“I’m 40 years young,” Reigns said. “With everything that we have within sports science, nutrition, all the information we have, careers have been extended.
“And then we also — you get to a point where you grind it out early in your career, and then once you get towards the back end, that equity kicks in, and then you get into a different ballpark as far as finances. And I’m not going to leave the park now. If the ATM machine is broken, you’re not going to run away from it. You’re just going to keep collecting that money. I still feel like, creatively, there is so much left for me to do. And there’s still a great deal of earning for me to take advantage of.”
If Reigns defeats Punk on Sunday, it will be the first time he’s held WWE gold since his loss to Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania 40 in 2024. Both Reigns and Punk are set to appear on tonight’s WrestleMania go-home episode of Raw.
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