Roman Reigns Explains Why Doing WWE House Shows No Longer Makes Sense For Him

Roman Reigns speaks candidly about the subject.

Shannon Sharpe welcomed WWE World Heavyweight Champion Roman Reigns onto his Club Shay Shay podcast.

As they were diving into Reigns’ pro wrestling career, Reigns spoke about why doing WWE house shows no longer makes sense for him.

“I just outworked them. I do that every single day. People look at it as a highlight reel now, but you know how it is. Every single day you’re putting in work. Every live event, there is hundreds. And now with my schedule, people will pick on it but they don’t remember from 2012 to 2018 when I was doing 150-200 shows a year, every single year, just working my ass off… Putting my time in, that’s where I learned how to do everything, and we’re trying to get that back. I think we’re trying to run more live events and they are good, but we’re just at a business model where TV rights are TV rights and there’s just so much money on the line that we’ve got to that point where it’s just like it doesn’t make sense for me to do live events anymore. What if I got hurt? There’s so much money that’s riding on Mondays and Fridays and our PLEs now that I can’t just go out there and wrestle for 4,000-5,000 only, just for those eyes only. Now, I’ve got to conserve it.”

Reigns’ latest defense of the WWE World Heavyweight Title took place at Money in the Bank, where he bested L.A. Knight.