Roman Reigns has been a large topic of conversation over the past several months in the wrestling world. He has been the recipient of a lot of negativity from fans who dislike his push as the WWE’s top guy. He even has had “You Can’t Wrestle” chanted at him by the crowd. In a recent interview on Talk is Jericho, Finn Balor had some high praise for Reigns and fans who think he can’t wrestle.
Balor locked up with Reigns for the first time ever on RAW a couple of weeks ago where he went on to win and earn his shot at the WWE Universal Championship at Summerslam.
Finn says his match with Reigns (a couple of weeks ago) really opened his eyes about how talented Reigns is:
“I went through the match, and worked with Roman… absolutely incredible in the ring. It’s unbelievable to hear the amount of negativity he gets, and when you get in the ring with him he is absolutely one of the… well, it was eye-opening moment for me going “Oh my God, this guy’s really really good” (Source: Talk is Jericho).
On the negativity that Roman Reigns receives:
“Again, 16 years of being in there with them all, and then getting in there with Roman who has, like, among the fans and some of, you know, the wrestlers around the world who obviously haven’t locked up with him, has kind of a bad reputation with the whole “You can’t wrestle, you can’t wrestle.” And when we locked up, I was like “Oh my God, this guy is great,” and was never at any point in that match kinda uncomfortable, you know? He just put me a lot at ease with that whole situation… hat’s off to Roman because he really kinda led me through it” (Source: Talk is Jericho).
Check out the full interview on Podcast One.
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