Roman Reigns was recently a guest on ‘Talk is Jericho’ hosted by WWE star: Chris Jericho. Reigns spoke on a wide variety of topics, including his thoughts on a potential heel turn and explaining why he doesn’t come through the crowd anymore for his entrance.
During the interview, Reigns also spoke on how he got his ring name: ‘Roman Reigns’. During his time in WWE developmental, he wrestled as ‘Leakee’ before making the switch.
Here is Reigns explaining the origin of his name:
“I knew I wanted Roman. I liked Roman. I wanted Roman only and they were like, ‘no, you need a last name’. And there’s actually another guy in FCW by the name of Calvin Raines. He spelled it like ‘rain’, like a ‘raindrop’. And they, I believe, released him and sorry, brother. He’s a good man, a real nice brother. Sorry. Roman Raines sounded good to me, so they were like, ‘alright, give me four or five different names'”
He also says that Corey Graves convinced him to change the spelling from ‘Raines’ to ‘Reigns’:
“I was going through it and Corey Graves, he was down in FCW, still working at that time, he’s actually one of my good buddies and our families are like really good friends. He told me, he was like, ‘hey, I heard you saying ‘Roman Raines’. What if you spelled it like, ‘Reigns’, like a king Reigns.’ And I was like, ‘whoa, I like that.’ And there you go. And total heel name too!”
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You can listen to the full podcast here. h/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcript.