Roman Reigns Comments On His Reaction To Vince McMahon’s WWE Retirement: “Ah, we’ll see him in six months.”

Roman Reigns initially reacted to the news with disbelief.

Vince McMahon announced his retirement from WWE last month and has had very little to say since then. Many stars have commented on it and now the Tribal Chief has had his say on the former CEO retiring from his position in the company.

Speaking to Jimmy Traina on the Sports Illustrated Media podcast, Roman Reigns commented on McMahon’s retirement.

“It was just hard to believe. I think along with anyone who has followed this business or been in this business, ‘I’m gonna be long gone, I’m going to be 20 years retired and Vince is still running the show.’ That was just ‘Ah, we’ll see him in six months,’ was the mindset that I initially took. We received a talent relations text message and then a personal message from him, we talked a bit. Until I’m either hearing from Paul [Triple H] or higher, I believe everything is a work. ‘They’re trying to get an angle on it.’ I’m not going to be the one that believes it and ‘you got me, I got worked you.’ I think it’s all a work. Nothing is real until I’m counting it,” 

“We’re not erasing what I’ve done. It’s very visible. Even if Paul wasn’t completely locked in to what we’ve been doing the past six months and the past year with the health issues that he’s overcome and the journey he’s on, but we never forget what we’ve done and the body of work that we have and why we’re to the point that we are. Like anyone that is trying to get better and progress, they’re going to keep that mindset of ‘I’m trying to better myself. This week is an audition for next week.’ That’s how I look at it. I just did a house show in Ottawa and one of the producers, after we were done, they come up to me, ‘You bump like you’re auditioning for a job.’ We didn’t do any crazy bumps, just regular flatbacks, but I attack the mat as if it was my first day of training. As an athlete, that’s how we’ve been trained, 100% every single time. That was instilled as a child. I don’t care who is running the show, in my mind, I’m running the show. As long as I continue to push myself and bring my very best performance every single week, it doesn’t matter if it’s Vince, Triple H, Nick (Khan), Stephanie (McMahon), Amazon, Disney, Paul Heyman, Jimmy, you could run the show and you know who the man is.”

Roman Reigns to Sports Illustrated

Many stars have shared the WWE Universal Champions reaction to McMahon’s retirement, with many being in a sense of disbelief over the retirement of Vince just over a month ago.

H/T to Fightful for transcription

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