In the past few years, Roman Reigns has become more of a star attraction for WWE. He doesn’t wrestle as often as he used to, but his involvement still brings a lot of eyeballs to the product.
During his early days in WWE, Reigns was consistently featured on WWE programming, including its live events. With Reigns now working a part-time schedule with WWE, he rarely works on such events anymore.
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Roman Reigns Explains Why Live Events Don’t Make Sense For Him Anymore
Roman Reigns recently joined the Club Shay Shay podcast to talk about various things related to wrestling. While answering how Reigns turned the fans around compared to when he first debuted, he talked about not working live events anymore.
Reigns explained that WWE’s current business model is television rights, so it doesn’t make sense for him to work house shows for a smaller audience.
“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 a** off but staying in the lab, continually getting the reps, conquering my 10,000 hours, putting my time in, that’s where I learned how to do everything, and we’re trying to get that back,” Reigns said. “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 is currently advertised for the upcoming Crown Jewel Premium Live Event, which is scheduled to take place on November 7.
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