During his premiere episode of A&E Biography: WWE Legends, Roman Reigns revealed that he didn’t want to break up The Shield nor did he want to be a babyface.
Reigns, Seth Rollins, and Dean Ambrose (Jon Moxley) broke up in 2014 after The Lunatic Fringe turned on the group. This led to Reigns working as a babyface until 2020.
Reigns said, “I didn’t wanna break up The Shield, and I damn sure didn’t want to be a good guy. That’s exactly what was happening. I was so young on the rise. It’s not like I had a nest egg built up. It’s not like I had a whole bunch of options that I can just say ‘No I’m not feeling this. This doesn’t feel good to me or I wouldn’t say this.’ It was so hard to do that when you don’t have that backup, when you don’t have that ‘f**k you’ money, and you can’t just stand on your art and your family is depending on you. Your livelihood is depending on you. You have to just be a good soldier and do what you’re told.”
