Braun Strowman has made a bold statement about his on-and-off rivalry with Roman Reigns, placing it alongside the greatest feuds in professional wrestling history while also revealing just how green he was when he first stepped foot in a WWE ring.
Speaking on Rewind Recap Relive, Strowman pulled no punches when asked about his rivalry with Reigns that ran through 2017, 2018, 2019, and into 2020.
“I’ll put the feud I had with Roman Reigns through ’17, ’18, ’19 into ’20 up against any feud in the history of the business, and I’m going to say it’s as good or better. I could be biased, but that’s my opinion,” Strowman said.
The confidence behind that statement carries additional weight when you consider how little experience Strowman had when he first appeared on WWE programming. In the same interview, he revealed that his Monday Night Raw debut as part of the Wyatt Family in August 2015 was only the fourth professional wrestling match of his entire career.
“Oh, I was just terrified. Like, don’t fall, don’t do something stupid. You get one chance to make a first impression and things like that. Some people know and not a lot of people know that was my fourth time I’d ever wrestled in my entire life. So I debuted on Monday Night Raw after SummerSlam in 2015. That was the fourth wrestling match I’d ever had in my career. So yeah, a little nervous, because I didn’t know the difference between a headlock and my hole in my ass at the time. But Vince saw something in me and was like, ‘We’re going to learn as we go.’ He took me to the deep end of the pool, kicked me in the ass and I doggy paddled for a decade,” Strowman said.
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