Roman Reigns, the undisputed WWE Universal Champion and “The Tribal Chief,” recently spoke with The Ringer about a variety of subjects, including how Jey Uso made him nervous at Hell In A Cell because he wanted everyone to do well, which they all did, and Reigns didn’t want anyone to look out of place.
Roman Reigns said:
“I’ve never been so nervous for anybody I’ve been in the ring with. I want everybody to do good, but I’m not going to lower myself. I’m going to make everything look awesome as much as I can. So you have to keep up. At the end of the day, you have to be able to work up to this level and not seem out of place. And he didn’t, man, in so many ways.”
Roman Reigns also spoke about how he and Jey Uso did not have a lot of time to plan the match out and discuss and instead they just relied on each other’s instincts and the brother-level relationship and connection they have.
Roman Reigns said:
“I’m not going to dive into all the super backstage stuff, but there was no time to discuss. So there were a lot of instincts that were relied on. The fact that we have literally a brother-level connection and relationship, it made it really easy for us to just rely on our history and being comfortable with each other and also being able to push that type of emotion out of each other.”
Roman Reigns then spoke about how no one has ever pushed him emotionally like Jey Uso has.
Roman Reigns said:
“I don’t think anyone’s ever pushed me emotionally like Jey has, and I think we did that for each other and we made a star out of him. I mean, even to this day, if he doesn’t go through that process, I don’t think he’s doing what he’s doing now at the level he’s doing it at. It doesn’t happen if he doesn’t make those giant leaps he did two years ago.”
