Paul Heyman: Roman Reigns’ Greatest Challenge Is Constantly Evolving And Being Better Than Himself

Paul Heyman believes Roman Reigns’ greatest challenger in his life is himself. 

Roman Reigns is in the middle of a historic run with the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship. Throughout his three-year run as champion, he has faced a litany of Hall of Fame-level opponents. Still, he has toppled them all. 

Now, “The Wise Man” Paul Heyman, during a recent appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, has elaborated on why he believes Roman Reigns’ greatest opponent is his own potential. 

When asked who he wishes “The Tribal Chief” could defeat next, Heyman wasted no time in saying “himself.”

“That’s really Roman’s greatest challenge in life, is topping himself, that the Roman Reigns of tomorrow has to be better than the Roman Reigns of today, and the Roman Reigns two days from now needs to be better than the Roman Reigns tomorrow. So the only true challenger to Roman Reigns is himself, that he has to be constantly better. He can never truly peak because one he peaks, that’s it. We’ve reached the apex, and it’s time to go do something else. But in challenging himself to be greater tomorrow than he is today and greater two days from now than he is tomorrow, then we are constantly evolving, and The Tribal Chief gets better and better,” said Paul. “So he’s looking to be the GOAT, and tomorrow eclipse that level to create an unprecedented level, like an expanding universe is always bigger than it was a moment ago. So he’s never gonna rest on his laurels. It’s like the story of Michael Jordan showing up to practice at eleven o’clock in the morning, and the coach one day showed up at 12:30 because it was a one o’clock practice, and he looked at him and went, ‘MJ, practice begins at eight be.’ Michael said, ‘Yeah, I should be here tomorrow at ten instead of eleven, right?’ That’s the point. You gotta out-do and out-work and out-perform and out-class and out-champion and out-great everyone else, including and especially yourself.”

Elsewhere in this very interview, Roman Reigns further elaborated why Roman Reigns is greater than names like John Cena, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and The Rock. Read more here. 

Up next for Roman Reigns is a civil war against Jimmy and Jey Uso as he teams with Solo Sikoa at WWE Money in the Bank on July 1.

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