Roman Reigns: 2019 Was The Most Miserable Time Of My Career, I Was Honestly Ready To Retire

Roman Reigns opened up on his last babyface run.

Ever since he departed from the Shield in 2014, the WWE booked Roman Reigns to be their next big babyface, similar to the likes of John Cena, Hulk Hogan, and many others who either came and went or made an impact.

While discussing his run on his A&E Biography special, this is what Roman Reigns had to say about his 2019 year as a babyface.

“I think that was the most miserable time of my career. This is the time that I was just trying to make everything easy. ‘I’m paid well. I should make the job easy for everybody. That’s what being a top guy is, right?’ That’s what I translated as being a top guy and it just didn’t work. So I left once the pandemic hit. That’s where it all changed,” he said. “So, at that point, it was so early on in the pandemic. We didn’t have any protocols set up. It was still very unknown. So I made the choice to just go home and I told them, ‘Until We can figure out how to make it safe. I’m not putting me or my family at risk.’

“I was ready to retire and once I fully removed myself by choice, not due to circumstances, that’s when I was able to be truthful with myself. That’s when I could really take an authentic genuine eye and look at what I’ve been doing and look at what I’ve done. That’s when I knew I just wasn’t happy with it. I still felt like I didn’t achieve what I had set out to do. I didn’t reach my potential, I was still under that ceiling, and it was time to break it.”

Reigns recently lost on night two of WrestleMania against Cody Rhodes to end his illustrious reign as the Undisputed WWE Champion for 1300+ days.

h/t from Fightful.

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