John Cena: Roman Reigns Has Redefined How You Do It, He’s Made Himself Exclusive

John Cena has high praise for Roman Reigns.

In the current state of professional wrestling, Roman Reigns is arguably the biggest star on the planet. Reigns, who is currently in the midst of a record breaking reign as the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion, is starting to be widely talked about in the name of other wrestling greats such as John Cena, The Undertaker, and ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin.

If you ask Cena himself, Reigns is definitely in the conversation for being the greatest to ever do it. In a new interview with Busted Open Radio, Cena was asked to reveal who he considers to be the greatest wrestler of all time, to which he gave Reigns credit for redefining the sport.

“So my personal number one, I think Roman Reigns has to be considered strongly. What he’s done with the championship, what he’s done as essentially a selective performer, he’s redefined how you do it. Not only that, the reason I really rest a lot of accolades on Roman’s shoulders, and I’ve told this to him personally, [is] his ability to pass energy to more than himself. [I haven’t seen it] since the Four Horsemen, but the difference between him and Ric is that Ric was always there and that’s brilliant. I love that Roman did it his own way by crafting his own personality, he did it his own way by redefining what it means to be at the tip of the sphere. He is there selectively, he has made himself exclusive and in doing so, he’s brought like eight people with them. He’s allowed the whole Bloodline to get over.”

Cena went on to compare Roman’s ability to his own, noting that he could only help one person he was working with at the exact time he was working with them.

“If you put me in that conversation, I could only help the person I was working with, while I was working with them. The reputation that I had in that sauce, while I was in it was that I bury talent because I would really invest my whole [heart]. Like, I sat with Austin Theory for like ten hours. Not wasted a day, invested a day to talk about our why, like what’s our story going to be. I would do that with everyone, I live it, my heart is on the plate. What Roman does, just being affiliated with his energy, he gets so many people over and that’s something I could never do, period. You’re with me, and you got a chance when you’re there, but a lot of times you went off to do stuff that wasn’t looked at in the some way and then the perception of the audience is that [I] buried them. Roman’s ability to be that good and to spread his energy so thin that he makes other talent, and do it exclusively. That’s his difference from Ric, Ric was always the centerpiece. Roman has off days, but he’s still there. His presence is so great, I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Names like Jey Uso, Sami Zayn, & Kevin Owens have all gained a ton of fanfare throughout their matches and/or stories with Roman Reigns.

Cena last competed in WWE at WrestleMania 39, where he lost to Austin Theory in a United States Championship match.

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