Roman Reigns spoke with Jimmy Traina on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast to promote SummerSlam where he’ll make his next defense of the Universal Title against John Cena.
During it, he was asked about his promo on the July 25th edition of SmackDown where he compared John Cena not changing up his gimmick to doing the missionary position every night. The line was removed from the video that was uploaded to WWE’s social media and YouTube accounts.
“There’s a portion of my career where I would either read a script or I would try to adjust a script as much as possible. For a while now, especially since I’ve come back since SummerSlam, I’m not scripted. I say what I want to and say what I feel. If it comes out of my mouth, it’s my verbiage, I come up with it and I deliver it…..I don’t know why they edited it out. I think it raised some eyebrows, I don’t get in trouble. The gimmick is as close to being real as possible. Even if they tried to say something to me, I wouldn’t have cared anyway. What are you gonna do? Not have me on SmackDown next week? Like I did before SummerSlam last summer, I’ll go home. It doesn’t matter to me, let’s see how they do without me.”
Reigns added that it was in the moment line and “it definitely wasn’t something holstered throughout the week or month.” He would go on to say that there’s a big difference between himself and his character, which is something that he transforms into when he’s at the arena.
You can listen to the entire interview by clicking on the player below (quotes can be found at the 12:40 mark):
