During a recent interview on Chris Jericho’s “Talk is Jericho” podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Ric Flair gave some high praise to Roman Reigns. Here are some highlights:
On Roman Reigns Being Versatile: “You really don’t know what the crowd is going to do until you go out there through the curtain, right? You can have something all planned out and they’re not going to buy it. I mean, that’s the great thing about having Roman [Reigns]. I think they struggled with him at first, but with Roman, they’ve got the best of both worlds. They’ve got a guy that one day can wrestle Seth Rollins and be the hottest bad guy in the [professional wrestling] business, which that match will be huge when they have it or he can go out and wrestle Hunter and whatever, right? He’s good! Yes, [he is versatile], which is a good thing, I think.”
On WWE Being Proven Right & Fans Not Being Able to Boo Reigns Any Longer: “Look at the match him and AJ [Styles] had [at WWE Payback]. Holy cow! What a match. Start, restart, start, restart. And you know, AJ flies around. [Jericho] should know. He works [Jericho’s] style of work, but Roman hung right there with him for 30 minutes. Roman [has] got legs. It makes him a better performer. You can’t [boo him] anymore. But he just had to work hard to win them over. But the company just proves everybody right. They did the right thing. Bret [Hart], I just saw Bret the other day, but Bret was hammering the company for the way they treat Roman. Roman’s as happy as can be. Bret’s fine now too! As long as he can put the Sharpshooter on me, he’s happy.”
