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[engine noise]

- I'm the only constant here.

Everybody-

It can be Roman against
anybody at this point.

They're all fighting over it.

Got the fans who-

The only thing that's not
debatable is

that I'm the mainstay.

It's hard for me to just sit
back and, like, let it

just surround me and-

and saturate me too much because
I'm just always focused on

what's the next thing.

Did I know exactly

the journey we're going to take
to get there?

No, but I always knew what
the destination is.

- I think I'm in a very unique
situation.

To where art meets business
that no matter what we do,

I'm going to make it to where
I'm very happy.

- Hello everyone.

You are looking live at the
T-Mobile arena

on the Strip in Las Vegas.

Welcome to the WrestleMania 40
kickoff show.

- From the very beginning, my
dad always taught me that when

you come around this ring,
it's only about money.

It's only about drawing money.

- Are you ready?

- And I've always taken the
position to protect my family

and lift them and make it
better

than it ever was.

But I just feel like in this
moment it's even more than that.

And I don't care what anybody
thinks.

I'm going to take this business

to a whole nother level.

[crowd cheers and boos]

Las Vegas.

[crowd cheers]

Acknowledge me.

[crowd cheers]

[waves crashing]

- When you talk about Roman,

I see a very cool, calm,

collected guy with a good head
on his shoulders.

He's going to navigate the
waters as they come to him.

And play the game the way it
needs to be played.

The only thing that could stop
him is him himself.

Man, that Bloodline, those
Samoans.

It's a wrestling dynasty.

- That was definitely something
that I think fueled me to

continue to push and strive for
a different level of greatness.

- There they are the Wild
Samoans.

- That's what I wanted.

That respect.

- I'm gonna ball out in college.

I'm going to be a star there.

Then I'm going to go to the NFL,
and be a star there.

You think that's what it is

until life like stops
everything.

- For a lot of people,
you very easily could feel sorry

for yourself and just start on
a downhill slide for him.

For him, he made it a bump in
the road.

- The great ones have that "It"
factor and Roman Reigns-

- Has that "It" factor

- -the name, the "It" factor,
the whole package.

- You know that he's going
to be a star.

I saw all those qualities
from that guy

that's going to carry
the company forward.

- But the minute the audience
became aware that he was meant

to be the guy, they started
to push back on him.

[crowd boos]

- He went through the fire.

He got scarred and charred by
the fire and he learned.

Roman can't be
something he's not.

- And finally, it's just like,
[bleep] it,

I'm doing it my own way.

- I just really feel like this
is what I'm hoping

hands down, the best work I've
ever done.

- The WWE fans are like, "This
is what we've been waiting for."

- Acknowledge me.

- It's an all in lifestyle, what
we do.

You have to believe it.

You have to be in it.

- It's not a switch.

It just is who I am.

- To know where he's come from.

And what he's had to overcome,

is very special.

- This whole idustry,

this whole business runs
off of me.

- He is selling out arenas at a
pace that could only be rivaled

in the Attitude ERA.

- I really don't think a few
years ago

he would have been ready to be
where he's at now.

- I had to go through
all these different life

experiences, go through those
trials and errors,

make it through the fire.

It took a lot of somedays
weathering the storm and then

some days playing
in the rain.

Took all of that,

to become
what I am now.

- Take one, mark.

- Ladies and gentlemen,
my name is Paul Heyman.

I serve as special counsel and
the "Wise Man"

to the Tribal Chief,
Roman Reigns.

Which means the opinion you're
about to hear is quite biased.

But just because it's biased
doesn't make it wrong.

- One of the most dominant
champions

of recent memory.

- All four faces on the Mount
Rushmore of greats

lead to one man,

Roman Reigns.

Who could pass

any of the greatest champions
of the modern era?

All of them legends, all of them
generational talents.

I'm talking about people like

The Phenom,
The Undertaker,

The Nature Boy,
Ric Flair,

The Heartbreak Kid,
Shawn Michaels,

The Texas Rattlesnake,
Stone Cold Steve Austin,

The Game,
Triple H,

John Cena.

- The champ is here.

- Even the immortal Hulk Hogan.

All of them.

To the man.

Each and every single one
of them

- That is a sick ass slate dude.

- Acknowledges your Tribal
Chief, Roman Reigns.

- Hogan with the leg lock,

two, he got him.

[crowd cheers]

[bell rings]

- Hulkamania is here.

- There have done a lot of guys
over the years,

over the last 30 or 40 years,

that have been handed the ball,
and everything's about a run and

how long and how powerful your
run is, and everybody has a

certain run that they have as a
champion or as the main guy,

the "It" guy.

And Roman tells a story.

Roman has placement,
he has timing,

and everything he
does means huge things so,

give me him all day long.

I mean, if I was in my prime
right now,

I'd love to work with him.

- No.

- Get out.

- We got a new World Champion

[bell rings]

- Everything is methodical,
everything has purpose,

and that comes with knowing
what your character is.

You're trying to capture
people's imagination.

That's what you do.

They have to believe in you.

And people believe in Roman.

Whether they like him,
they don't like him.

They believe in him.

- It's Flair from behind.

Oh yes.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Flair did it.

- We just know how damn good
we are.

You don't even think
twice about it.

And to be the man-

Woo.

-you've got
to beat the man.

Roman's got the total package
and they got it going,

and they believe in him, and

I'd keep all the gas on him
there is.

- Wait a minute,
wait a minute.

Michaels su- he got it.

He got all of it.

- The boyhood dream has come
true.

- It's the reason everybody
gets into this line of work,

I think, is to, you know, is to

want to be that guy and to
experience what it is to,

you know,
to take that on.

I've never even heard

of there being a time when
Roman didn't handle it well.

- The Austin era has begun.

- For me, myself as a trash
talking guy from Texas,

you know,
somewhat cocky.

I couldn't pretend to be
anything that I wasn't.

What I see in Roman really,
is he's only going to be Roman.

And I'm only going to be Steve,
you know,

which means, you know,
everything goes

with being Stone Cold.

Let's just turn it up.

Same thing with Roman.

- Triple H has realized his
dream.

It's all about Triple H.

He is now the
World Wrestling -- champion.

- The ones that are the most
successful on all levels,

not just box office or ticket
sales or viewership,

are the ones that have that
innate ability to lead.

Roman Reigns covers the
leadership role in a way that is

this quiet steadiness,
this assuredness.

- Hook of the leg.

- One, two, three.

- Cena is the champion.

- It is an on the job training
no matter what.

We learn the most from failure.

And Roman had his share of
knocks and finally was just

like, [bleep] it,
I'm doing it my own way.

And it has been a wrap ever
since.

It has been drop mic,
conversation over.

There's nobody like him.

He should be compared
only to himself.

- That's some lineup, isn't it?

What a roster.

Each and every single one of
those men can lay claim

to being amongst the greatest
of all time.

But there's only one man

that can lay claim to truly
being the G.O.A.T.

The greatest of all time.

- That's me,

the Tribal Chief

Roman Reigns.

This type of stage I've been
waiting on for a long time.

We all been working, we all
grind and everybody wants it,

you know?

That's seized up.

You feel that [bleep]?

But I've just come way too far.

Like I don't give a [bleep] what
anybody wants, what anybody

thinks, whatever their dream is,
whatever their story is.

You're in the middle
of my book now.

- If you're the WWE champion,
if you're the world champion,

if you're put in that position,
you're sort of put in a position

of carrying the charge.

- When somebody's got wrestling
in their blood.

It's hard to change the course
of their life.

I mean, it's part of him.

It's just seems
so natural to him.

He makes everything his own.

- Who is Roman Reigns?

- Who's Roman Reigns?

Well, that depends on the
perspective.

That depends on
how you relate to me.

How I affect your life.

But down to the core of it.

I'm just a young man
addicted to greatness.

We're in New York
at The Tonight Show,

Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Knock out a little promotion
before we head to San Antonio.

It's a little different, you
know what I mean?

It's a different type of
environment.

You know what I mean?

A different showcasing.

It's just like more
requirements, you know,

and needs and responsibilities
of the job.

That's why everybody
can't do it.

- Everyone wants to be the guy,

but nobody ever thinks about

what it's like to be that guy

and everything
that comes along with it.

- You know, when you're at the
top attraction,

when you're on top of WWE,
you're on top of the world,

and there's a lot of
responsibility that-

that comes with that.

- Think he has all the tools
to become

as big as he wants to be.

He's got star written
all over him.

[crowd cheers]

- How's that look?

- You know what's great is the
last time you were on the show,

you were on your way to
WrestleMania, and I said,

"Next time you come on my show,
you're going to have two belts."

You do have two.

[crowd cheers]

- Sometimes pressure
busts the balloon.

And then other times,

you just continued to expand
and grow with it.

- The Tribal Chief is

the dream that I dreamed my
whole life.

And I didn't even realize.

That that was the dream.

My whole life, I wanted to be
somebody significant.

I wanted to be a man
of influence.

But little did I know it was
going to be through

connecting into the skin of the
Tribal Chief.

I didn't realize that, that's

what I was after my entire life.

I was born in Pensacola,
Florida,

May 25th, 1985.

- Leati Joseph Anoa'i.

Leati is his father's real first
name.

Sika's real first name.

On my mother's side,
everybody was a Joseph.

There were so many Josephs.

And I said, "Well, I need to
keep that going."

And so I named him Joseph.

- When Joe was born, um,
we're 15 years apart.

I'm the oldest.

My sister Vanessa is my oldest
younger sister.

And then Summer is right
after her.

And then Joe is the absolute
youngest in our family.

- I was raised in a small cinder
block panhandle of Florida home

a three bedroom, one bath.

I look back at it.

It was a miserable little setup,
but it was ours.

But yeah, a lot of credit goes
to my mom and the sacrifices

that she made.

- It was never a dull moment.

I know my mom pulled all her
hair out all the time, but, um,

it-it was it was fun.

Always exciting.

We grew up with a wrestling ring
in our backyard because,

of course, my dad's a wrestler.

- Roman Reigns father is a
legendary tag team wrestler

in the WWE named Sika,
the Wild Samoan.

- Throughout the 1970s and the
1980s, there was no tag team

on the face of the planet,

that held as many tag team
championships as Afa and Sika,

the Wild Samoans.

- There they are the Wild
Samoans.

Afa and Sika of course the

World Wrestling -- Tag Team
Champions.

- One night,

Panama City, Florida,

Sika came into the locker room
with his three year old son.

Roman Reigns.

You could just tell the
charisma of this three year old.

- Years later,

my parents separated and
eventually divorced.

But to be honest,

even if they were still
together,

that life chose him.
the road chose him.

As it chose me.

- With Joe, it's my fault

because I had been on the road
all these years

and he's been by himself
and his mom and his sisters.

I-I can't help that.

I got to get out there
and I got to work.

- My dad was a hard man.

He was tough

because it had to be.

We used to go down to the YMCA
downtown Pensacola all the time

with my dad, and they had this
big Olympic sized lap pool.

And I would just scale the wall,
terrified.

My dad would always say,

"You going to stay on that
wall your whole life,

or you gonna to learn how to
swim?"

and next thing I know it,

my mullet's being pulled up out
of the pool

and he launches me
into the deep end.

As soon as I hit that water.

I just started to sink like a
rock, and as soon as my foot hit

the bottom of that pool, I just
started scratching and clawing.

I started to fight.

And little did I know

that fight was being translated
into swimming.

I was all the way back up
to the top.

And from that moment on,
I knew how to swim.

So my father's side is Samoan
and my mother's side, um,

is Italian Sicilian,
but I had just been so immersed

into my my dad's side
of the family.

There was just something
that I took a great pride in.

Our family members are a lot of
their personalities

are larger than life.

They are large humans.

So they're, you know,
larger than life

in that perspective as well.

Like, I mean, when we go
to a barbecue.

- We gonna eat it all up.

- It's a crazy collection.

I mean, you got Umaga, Junior,
Rikishi's there, the big Sam,

Samu, little Sam Tonga kid
running around crazy.

I have a cousin, Yokozuna.

- Banzai.

- Oh, look at that.

- Who was a World Heavyweight
Champion.

He was the top guy of the WWE.

If you're the champ, you get a
different look.

You get a different vibe
around here.

My cousin Dwayne,

- The most electrifying man in
Sports and Entertainment.

- If you're the champ,
if you were the top guy,

if you were the face of the
company,

you were driving it,

it just felt like you could do
whatever you wanted.

Watching the men in my family
experience and go through,

you know, the high points of
their career,

it taught me a lot
about this business.

It taught me about the sports
and the entertainment of this

business, because we had a very
wide range of performers

in our family.

- Once he got old enough to
actually do bigger brother

younger brother type things,

I had signed a scholarship for

football at the University of
Hawaii,

and then from that point
I kept moving on,

starting my career off in
wrestling.

- He grew up with me and my mom,

pretty much my sister and my
brother had already moved out of

the house, so he was pretty much
raised with two girls.

And then we had cousins move
from Atlanta,

the twins.

- That's Joshua.

- Well, there's the twins right
there, they're goin' at it.

- These guys were going to be a
part of my life for a long time.

- What's your name?

- Jonathan.

- First time I met Joe, we come
home, but he's already there.

Me and my brother

get to the room.

Somebody in our toy box.

"Yo, who are you?"

"I'm Joe, your cousin."

"What are you doing?"

"Playing with your toys."

"All right, well, let me play
with that one,

because that one,
that's my favorite. "

- I wasn't having it,
so I threw up the one.

These days we do this.

But back then, it was this one.

And I forget which one.

If I had to, like, pro
personality profile

was probably Jey

that went running off crying
about it.

- My brother starts
throwing it up too.

I'm like, "Hey man, you and you
are wrong.

I'm gonna go tell on both of
you."

- And you know, we've been
throwing up the ones,

ever since.

At this point, my older sister
was the closest to me,

Summer,

she was going to the skating
rink and I wanted to go,

but I wasn't old enough and I
threw a fit about it.

And while I was throwing my
little hissy fit,

Matt was the one that suggested,

"Well, instead of going to the
skating rink,

why don't we go to the Escambia
High School football game?"

And that was my first experience
of not only football,

but then also seeing my brother,

and football tied together, and
then that would also play a deep

role into his influence on what
I did and kind of how I did it.

I wanted to play football
because he loved football

and he played football.

And have really sent me down
that physical, you know,

route of sports,

um and athletics that I think
really did set the tone

for the rest of my life,

and-and kind of

be the catalyst for
the choices to come.

- Then he-he was the only one
that got signed to-to a big

school, Georgia Tech.

So big barbecue that night
for my family.

- He played the way
we wanted people to play.

He wasn't as big as some other
guys that we had recruited,

but he was tough, hard nosed,
got after it every snap.

He was that kind of guy.

- Joe brought an intimidating
presence to our defense.

You know, he put the offensive
line on the other team on notice

that they're going
to have a long day.

And that is going to come all
day, every play,

'til the end of the game,

Ah, he was a badass.

- At that point in time,
I was with the WWE,

so I didn't have a lot of time
to go see a game,

but when I did have time,
um, we were definitely there.

And then of course, the games
that I'd watch on TV when I had

the chance to, you know,
I remember watching him,

playing him, sacking the
quarterback,

and I just went absolutely nuts.

And in my opinion,
I'm his number one fan.

I'm his number one fan.

- And at the end of the day,
I was a pretty damn good athlete

and I signed a preferred free
agent deal with the Vikings.

- I wouldn't care if he was
going to Alaska.

I just was so excited for him.

- So it was the very first day
of rookie camp.

We started it out.

We went and did our physicals,
which included blood work.

As I was walking out,
there were two trainers there

to pretty much intercept me.

So that's where we went
into the rabbit hole

to find out the
diagnosis of CML,

which is a form of leukemia.

Which is cancer of the blood.

I wish this got me
butterflies, and,

but like I earned this,
that-that wasn't like-

I'm not excited for this because
I expect this.

I've always expected this.

This was-

And then when I didn't have
it, I was pissed, I was bitter,

I thought I should've had it.

So I just kept working,
and I got it.

But I'll never forget

where I started.

My white blood cell count was
anywhere from like 50 to 70,000

white blood cells,
I want to say.

So it was just way too much.

So that's where we went into
the rabbit hole to find out

the diagnosis of CML, leukemia.

- I was at home, he called me
from the airport and it just

felt like somebody ripped my
heart out.

I think it broke him.

- A few years before I was
diagnosed is when the major

breakthroughs for oral
chemotherapy happened.

I was very lucky I didn't have
to go through radiation.

I didn't have to go through
true chemotherapy.

But for lack of better words.

Such a mind [bleep].

- It's like all the extra steps
to get to where he needed to go,

and then something out of his
control happens like that,

man, I think that's just God
letting him know,

"Hey, this ain't the door
for you."

- So I started working for my
sister, and, uh, her business

at the time was called
Proactive Installations.

It was an office furniture, um,
installation company.

- The twins were working with
us, so they just told him,

"Come on, brother, you know,
come, we'll work here." and,

that's what he did.

- It paid the bills,
so we was grateful for that,

but that-that just wasn't it for
us.

- And I remember sitting there
like,"This can't be it.

This, this is not it."

- That's when my whole mindset
shifted, because

at this point Jonathan had
already reported to FCW

- FCW is Florida Championship
Wrestling,

and it was really our training
ground.

It was sort of our minor
leagues.

It's where people with either no
experience or a little bit

of experience would come in and
learn from some great coaches

who had an understanding of how
the WWE way worked.

- I was building task chairs for
my sister in her warehouse,

and my dad walked in
and laughed at me.

He just asked me,
"Are you going to build chairs

for your sister your
whole life?"

And I didn't really have a good
rebuttal there,

and I didn't really know
what to say.

And then he asked me,

"When are you ever going
to want to wrestle?"

I told him,
"I-I'm ready."

He did exactly what he did to me
in that YMCA pool.

He wanted me to swim.

He wanted me to wrestle.

So he grabbed me by my hair and
he threw me to Tampa,

and I learned how to wrestle.

- Welcome to the FCW Arena
in Tampa, Florida

for Florida Championship
Wrestling.

- I met Joe at FCW.

You could tell he was
a natural.

Knew how to carry himself and be
at home in the ring.

And that's what you have to do.

We can teach you to lock up.

We can teach you to grab a hold,

but we can't always teach you
timing and feeling,

but he had it from the very
beginning.

- It's at this point the twins,
once they got settled in-

- The debut for Jimmy and Jey
here tonight on Superstars.

- -they were kind of doing not
too much, you know,

as younger performers
on the undercard.

- I want so much more
and I knew that,

but I just don't have the
knowledge,

but if you put me here,
I swear to God,

I'm going to take every spot
that I can.

They told me to be an
individual.

Then why do I feel like they've
cuffed me?

- First time
I've seen him

walk in a developmental
system building.

I said "Roman Reigns
will be a huge star."

- The great ones have that "It"
factor.

And Roman Reigns-

- Has that "It" factor

- -the name, the "It" factor,
the whole package.

- There were like some whispers.

They were going to call up a
group of guys.

They were looking at me,
Roman, Ambrose.

And so we were all thinking we
were going to be maybe

in some group together.

They didn't fully explain what
it was going to be,

but it was going to happen.

- And I know I'm going
to do whatever it takes,

and I won't stop until
it does happen.

That was my fast track
to get up to speed to become

what I didn't even know I was
supposed to become.

- You know, there's always that
period of time

when you first come in that you
have to figure things out.

And initially, things don't
always work out

the way they're supposed to.

What separates Roman from the
other next big things

is his determination.

And I think with The Shield,
it was cool

and it was innovative,

the three of them was a
dynamic kind of group.

- Myself, Roman Reigns and Dean
Ambrose,

we had traveled to go to the
next pay-per-view,

which was Survivor Series.

Finally we got taken aside and
explained what we were going

to be doing for the evening.

- You are looking live at the
packed Bankers Life Fieldhouse

in Indianapolis.

This is the Survivor Series.

- I just remember thinking

"How are people going to
respond?

Is anybody going to know who we
are?"

Then I just remember also
thinking, "It doesn't matter

because like you don't get
another chance

to make a first impression."

- Who the?

What the?

What-what is this?

This is an absolute mauling,

An absolute pack mentality.

What are these guys doing?

- We-we lit a fire under
everybody's ass,

and I don't think it's really
been the same since.

- He was an extremely good
listener,

picked up on things
extremely quickly,

and had a humility about him
when it came to learning.

- Sierra.

- Hotel,

- India.

- Echo.

- Lima.

- Delta.

The Shield.

[The Shield's music]

- Who can stop the solidarity of
The Shield?

- We were a three man group that
dominated WWE for the better

part of a year and a half.

All members of The Shield have
gold.

- It was compelling because

you know,
you want to see 'em.

You wanted to see what it is and
who they were going to go after

and what they were going to do
next.

- We're just doing every single
show, we were on

all the appearances I mean,
Roman was getting

huge reactions wherever we went.

- Nice to meet you.

- He had every element that
the WWE traditionally looks

for in a main event superstar.

- He was giant.

He's a good looking lad.

He has a presence about him.

I think when you combine all of
those elements together,

you see star like somebody that-
that doesn't isn't-isn't going

to blend in with the rest
of the crowd, you know?

- He was subtly being positioned
as the guy who was going to come

out of the group and be the
biggest star.

- Oh my God.

- Why in the world would
Seth Rollins do this?

- I didn't want to break up
The Shield,

and I definitely didn't want
to be a good guy.

And that's exactly what was
happening.

- As The Shield,

he was doing 33% of the work
when he got off on his own

there were some holes
in his game.

- When I was with The Shield,
we ran this yard,

and when I win the WWE World
Heavyweight Championship,

I take my rightful place at the
Head of the Table.

Believe that.

- Roman was the cool, silent
muscle of the group.

- And once he broke away from
The Shield,

suddenly he wasn't so silent,

and a lot of things
that he was doing

weren't so cool.

- You are a sniveling little
suck up sellout full of

sufferin succotash, son.

I was so young on the rise.

But it's not like I had
a nest egg built up.

It's not like I had a whole
bunch of options that I could

just say, "No, I'm not feeling
this.

This doesn't feel good to me,
or I wouldn't say this."

Was so,

hard to do that when
you don't have that backup,

when you don't have that [bleep]
you money,

and you can't just stand
on your art

and your family's depending on
you.

Your livelihood is depending on
you,

so you have to just be
a good soldier

and do what you're told.

- I think initially there might
have been a bit of a backlash

from fans because maybe they
thought, "Oh, this is the guy

they want us to cheer, but we're
not ready to cheer him."

- Welcome to the 28th Annual
Royal Rumble.

- I think they felt ever so
slightly like, "Hey, you're

forcing our hand on how you want
us to feel about this guy,

and we're going to revolt."

- Roman Reigns is going
to WrestleMania.

- Here is your winner,

Roman Reigns.

- I was booed historically.

[crowd boos]

You think of these moments.

You dream about them.

And the moment that it
actually happens, it's like

they're playing the worst
soundtrack of all time

over your moment.

Ruining your party.

That's how the Rumble

in Philly felt.

- In the Royal Rumble, thelast
man standing is the winner and

goes to WrestleMania to face the
WWE champion.

Fans looked at Roman as
"Oh yeah, he's pretty cool,"

but when they realized that WWE,

the corporate machine,
had gotten their hands

on Roman Reigns,
that Roman was the next guy

that was going to be shoved
down our throat.

We weren't ready for Roman
Reigns to be that guy.

- I try to forget Philly.

I try to forget the Royal
Rumble.

There's only one positive,

and that's the fact that
it's going to be able to tie

all the way back around.

Wrestlemania 40.

And like I said before, I was
tunnel visioned and I treated it

very seriously and I was
groomed

to reach a point like this.

- Okay.

Get your tickets out.

- Welcome to my stadium.

- Thank you.

- Just to see how far wrestling
has come from when my father was

in a WrestleMania
to where Joe is.

It's overwhelming.

And to see him.

Like main event it?

Oh yeah.

- Roman Reigns is walking in to
his first WWE World Heavyweight

Championship match tonight,
and it happens to take place in

front of 76,000 WWE fans at
WrestleMania.

- There's plenty of doubts, but
dealing with the scale of being

in the main event of
WrestleMania

completely changed my life.

- Any guy who becomes the guy
at some point has to walk

through hell in some match.

That gives them the credibility

with the fans.

And you can push a guy,
you can put him

in the main event,

doesn't mean he's the guy.

- Roman had to walk through
hell.

And that was with Brock Lesnar.

- That's the man that Roman
Reigns goes toe to toe

and face to face with tonight.

- Ladies and gentlemen,

My name is Paul Heyman.

And tonight I introduce to you

The Beast,
the Conqueror,

the reigning,
defending undisputed

WWE Heavyweight Champion
of the world

Brock Lesnar.

[crowd cheers]

- That was the first day of the
rest of my life.

It was just something about

him and his aura,

and everything that he was doing
that just made him different

and unpredictable.

And I didn't have a care in the
world because I just knew,

"Oh, we're just going to go out
there and bang."

[bell rings]

- And right out of the box,
Brock's been cut.

- We're just going to go out
there and be violent.

And that just gave me the most
comfort in the world.

I don't know what it was.

If it was some kind of primitive
part of me.

- It was the perfect match up
with the perfect guy.

And-and I thought, Roman

was just excellent.

- Oh no, he got caught.

Lesnar.

F5

Who can capitalize?

[Seth Rollins' music]

- What on Earth?

- This is brilliant.

Seth Rollins

Mr. Money in the Bank

A triple threat match.

- What?

- What the hell?

- Seth is going to finish him.

- Lesnar picked him out of the
air.

Reigns with a spear.

Curb stomp to Reigns

Cover by Rollins.

Rollins wins the title.

- I mean, look,
now that we're all on our own,

there's a little bit of
competition there.

Nothing personal against Roman.

Love him.

I just wanted to be the guy.

- This was supposed to be his
moment.

This was the crowning
achievement.

This is the coming out party.

This was the opportunity to
cement him as the number one guy

in the company, and he had it
all taken away from him

in a span of a couple of
minutes.

- The moment that happened

it-it completely change the
altitude.

People believed in me.

- You held up your end, right?

You know it in here,
don't you?

Nobody carried you.

Please understand that.

- I think that's why I'm-

like a hot mess right now.

- Nobody carried you, Joe.

Nobody carried you.

You lived up to your end and
then some.

- Thank you Paul.

Not only was it the stage and
the level

that I was searching for

my life hasn't been the same
since.

- Roman Reigns is going to
defend his Championship against

one of the top social media
influencers in the entire world,

Logan Paul.

- I knew I could get to this
point, and I think there's a

lane out there that nobody's
even touched that

why not me?

Why not-why not be the guy who
builds the new technique,

a new system, uh,

and that's what I'm
trying to do.

- After working with Roman, it
was so clear to me why he is the

face of the WWE.

He's the full package.

He has it all.

Going toe to toe with him.

Putting on an amazing show in
Saudi Arabia

The fans going crazy.

It was a dream come true.

He is excellent.

- When I first got here, John
was the man I looked at,

"Okay, these are the things
he's doing.

This is the things that he had,
the resources he has.

Okay, I want to get to
that level."

- John Cena everywhere.

John Cena in your CD player
May 10th.

John Cena on your silver
screen in the fall.

WWE is looking for the next
John Cena.

Boy, I know what that's like.

Steve leaves, Rock leaves

WWE's looking for the
next Stone Cold.

WWE is looking for the next
Rock.

Roman came in at a time where I
was fortunate enough to have a

long enough period where, okay,
this is the template of success.

But there is no template for
success.

But, we get lulled into this
comfort of who's going to do it

the way John did it,
to carry everything forward?

No one.

You got to do it differently.

- We were trying to force Roman
Reigns to be a star.

Roman had all the attributes of
being a star athletic, in shape,

tremendous in-ring worker.

Roman was incredible at all
that,

but our WWE fans want

stars to be made organically.

Roman Reigns is back,

in the main event at
WrestleMania.

Spear

Spear by Reigns

- But the WWE fans weren't
having it.

They wanted nothing
to do with it.

- No matter how many accolades
you give a superstar.

We don't want it.

We don't want it.

- One of the most competitive
superstars

to ever step foot in the ring.

And he'll have his hands full
tonight

for the man who's 23-1
at WrestleMania.

- You know, Roman definitely
stands out.

He's got the "It" factor,
you know,

I saw all those qualities from
that guy that's going to

carry the company forward.

- And a huge spear into the
heart of The Undertaker,

and Roman Reigns has defeated
The Undertaker at WrestleMania.

- The Undertaker is maybe the
most beloved character by us

fans that's ever existed
in the WWE.

We did not want that Roman
Reigns to be the guy that sends

The Undertaker into retirement.

And he showed up on Raw and he
stood in the ring and the WWE

audience told him, "No matter
how many people you beat,

you are not our guy."

[crowd chants]

[crowd boos]

- It was really neat to see a
fan base's admiration

and respect for Undertaker.

That-that was the first time I
felt the real control

of what we do,

and that's when it was like

a big epiphany, like,
"Oh my God."

[crowd boos]

- That was the first moment
of really

feeling the power

of the microphone.

[crowd boos]

I just learned how to wield this
weapon.

Like, really grip down and hold
this thing tight, you know.

[crowd boos]

- Now we'll be cooking with gas.

[crowd chants "You suck."]

- I said it too their in the
palm of my hand.

[crowd boos]

That in another way was kind of
like the, you know,

a new beginning in its own
right.

This is my yard now.

[crowd boos]

- My personal opinion now is
I think he found his home.

And I think he's, uh,

I think he's going to make this
his house for a long time.

- My brother was cool.

He just was, like-

My brother was much bigger than
me.

Due to that size, he was
probably more intimidating,

you know, from a first
impression.

And he had the size and the
power to be an [bleep].

When you're that big,
you can be a [bleep] to anybody,

but he wasn't.

My brother was just cool.

And that's what I heard from
everybody all the time.

Everybody loved my brother.

- My brother Matt was staying
with my sister,

and um, she came home from work.

She had talked to him earlier
that day and she came home.

She had been maybe a couple
hours later, um,

He just looked like he was
taking a nap.

Like she said, he looked like he
was sleeping.

But he wasn't breathing.

And we lost him.

I lost my-my brother.

One of my best friends.

Um, he had a heart attack, yeah.

He had a heart attack.

And I don't know if it was in

his sleep or if we don't know

- Man, when your family, you
know,

we all go through loss,
man.

You know when it's hard to put
that.

Put a name on that feeling.

- I think I got more mad at
myself for not helping more.

Due to my success and the
resources that I possess,

we could easily helped them.

We could easily got him into
a groove of life to where

he was far more comfortable.

- Something
to do with athletics,

just his focus in the gym,

focus all through high school
and-and uh college.

He- you knew Joe was set for
something great, you know.

He's-he's setting
the bar in our family

that much higher.

I'm just incredibly proud
of him.

I mean, how can you not?

- It became very clear.

That no matter how much WWE fans
booed Roman Reigns,

WWE was not going to stop this
train.

And we got to WrestleMania 34,
where the headline is once again

Roman Reigns versus
Brock Lesnar.

And fans showed up to
WrestleMania already thinking,

"Well, Roman's going to beat
Brock,

and I'm not going to like it."

Until

Roman didn't win.

- Any neck pain or anything like
that?

- Every inch of you physically,
every fiber of you mentally.

That's the only way to get to
the top and stay on top.

And that's why I do what I do.

And I'm not going to stop.

I'm not going to stop.

Until I've earned that respect.

- One of the things that's
impressive to me is being the

guy that main evented
Wrestlemanias

that many years in a row.

That's not an easy position
to get.

It's not an easy position
to be in.

And it's not an easy position to
maintain

to be that year over year over
year over year

is something special.

- There's a weird thing that
happens in our business.

The more time that you put in
and the more dedication that you

show for this unique genre that
we have, the WWE fans recognize

that and a weird thing along the
way happens

and they start to change
a little bit.

- For a second, you go,

"Oh, maybe he is the guy.
Ooh, I like that.

Ooh, yeah."

And you start to.

"Oh.

What's that?

I just feel myself rooting for
Roman Reigns?"

I think SummerSlam was one of
those instances.

- You are looking live at a sold
out Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Welcome, everybody,
to SummerSlam.

- The whole time I was tryin
to achieve something

And you just keep butting your
head against this figure

who is established.

He's a world renowned
combat athlete.

And you-you
just can't figure it out.

- Perhaps the most important
night

of Roman Reigns career

because does he get another
opportunity if he does not

slay The Beast tonight?

- And then finally you do.

- And Reigns with a spear

to the champion.

Here's the cover.

Hook of the leg.

Reigns did it.

Roman Reigns did it.

Reigns is the champion.

- And it's just all taken away.

I feel like I owe everybody
an apology.

For months,

maybe even a full year.

I've come out here and spoke as
Roman Reigns

and I said a lot of things.

I said I'd be a fightin
champion.

I said I was going to be
consistent and I said

I was going to be a workhorse,
but-

that's all lies.

It's a lie because the reality
is my real name is Joe.

And I've been living with
leukemia for 11 years.

And unfortunately, it's back.

- None of us knew.

You know, his personal life is
his personal life.

And, you know, he keeps that a
lot to himself.

So most of us did not know what
was happening that night.

- And because the leukemia is
back, I cannot fulfill my role.

I can't be that fightin
champion.

And right now, the best thing
for me to do is to go home to

focus on my family and my
health.

[crowd chants "Thank you
Roman."]

But I want to make one thing
clear

by no means is this a retirement
speech,

because I will beat this
and I will be back.

So you will see me very, very
soon.

[crowd cheers]

- Oh, nobody died, come on.

[laughing]

- When something like that
happens to you,

it changes your perspective.

And it makes you realize the
things that are more important

and changes your day to day
existence.

- And I wasn't alone.

Not only my loved ones,
but the whole world

surrounded me with support.

- My mom always told
me that God

gives his toughest
task to his toughest soldiers.

It sucked, you know what I mean?

And there was a lot of mental
stuff going on and, you know,

a lot of doubts and things like
that, but at the same time

I think adversity is constant
reminder

of what the world is and what
life is, and it's not fair.

I think it's a form of
resistance training that we have

to go through to strengthen
ourselves.

So I think adversity is a key
ingredient

to any success story.

For leukemia if you caught it in
an early enough stage

like I did,

you were able to take
essentially a medication,

a very potent medication that
I'm still on to this day,

but it's pretty much just a
conditioning of getting

your body used to these

toxic medications and just
hoping for the best.

- It has been a long road back
for that man.

- Physically speaking,

Roman Reigns looks as healthy
as I've ever seen him.

- I'm in remission, y'all.

[crowd cheers]

- And tonight at Wrestlemania
the big dog

is back.

- I think that was the most
miserable time of my career.

This is the time that I was just
trying to make everything easy.

I'm paid well.

I should make the job easy for
everybody.

That's what being a top guy is,
right?

That's what I translated as
being a top guy.

And it just didn't work.

And so I left once the pandemic
hit.

That's where it all changed.

- The World Health Organization
has just declared

that this is a pandemic.

- The NBA suspended,

Major League Baseball delaying,
everything else suspended.

You got to stay in quarantine
because you have to assume

that you're contagious.

- So at that point, it was so
early on in the pandemic,

we didn't have any protocols set
up.

It was so very unknown.

So I made the choice to just go
home.

And I told him until we can
figure out how to make it safe.

I'm not putting me or my family
at risk.

I was ready to retire.

And once I fully removed myself
by choice,

not due to circumstances,

that's when I was able to be
truthful with myself.

That's when I could really take
an authentic,

genuine eye and look at
what I've been doing.

Look at what I've done.

And that's when I knew I just
wasn't happy.

I still felt like I
I didn't achieve

what I had set out to do.

I didn't reach my potential.

I was still under that ceiling.

And it was time to break it.

This lesson, this was taught to
me early on.

My brother told me this one.

He told me that he had a ceiling
on his career.

Because he was too nice.

He was too much one of the boys.

And he told me if I ever want to
be the top guy,

if I ever want to be the main
event or the face

of this company.

That I would have to learn how
to be an [bleep] sometimes.

But it took a while for me
to understand that.

- For a while,
Roman was confused.

He couldn't find his
true identity.

He went through the fire, he got
scarred and charred by the fire,

and he learned.

Roman can't be
something he's not.

He is who he is.

- The one part about being the
guy at the top, the main guy.

You have to keep your mystique.

And if you get around too many
people

and they get to know
you too well.

It's really tough to keep that
number one spot.

- I just remember my brother
right there on my shoulder.

You put your foot down when you
have to, and you do the business

that's going to serve you and
your family.

Now, go in there and be an
[bleep].

- The big dog is here.

Roman Reigns is back.

- When I saw how he looked,
I said, I said, "That's Joe."

- Anytime you're like a
performer, you're creating,

any type of art form,

I mean, you got to obviously
connect to it like

in your own right personally.

It's all for the audience.

It's all for the result.

And I really hope that everybody
enjoys it as much as they have

enjoyed the build up and the
whole story that we've been

telling all the way around.

But like, I just really feel
like this is

what I'm hoping, hands down
the best work I've ever done.

I'm tell you right now.

I will be at Payback
on Sunday.

That is a promise.

And I will win back my Universal
Championship that I never lost

in the first place.

That is not just a prediction.

That's a spoiler.

- Believe-

-that.

God, I love working
with Roman Reigns.

I just love working with
the man.

He's so ambitious.

He has such a deep desire to be
the greatest of all time,

and he won't settle
for second best.

It always bothered me that the
mainstream media,

let alone the WWE universe,

never gave Roman Reigns
the credit that he deserved.

Brock Lesnar took the credit

that he deserved through
the words of his advocate,

Paul Heyman.

- Paul Heyman is the number
one villainous counterpart

in the history
of Sports Entertainment,

and Roman is looking as
confident as

he's ever looked with this new
special counsel.

you realize, "Oh my God, we're
on a completely different ride."

- Chosen family.

That's a powerful thing.

That's exactly what Paul
is to our family.

Paul's been with my family

longer than I have.

You know, I've said it before
and I'll say it again.

It's a secret weapon.

It's an ace up my sleeve.

- And Reigns with a
spear to Strowman.

Roman Reigns has won the
Universal Championship.

- We were in the middle of such
an unusual era

for all things WWE.

The world was locked down.

It wasn't in front of fans as
though we were used to,

and it was a really tough time
period for everybody.

- Everybody else,

they saw it as adversity.

I saw it as an opportunity.

Wait till you see what happens
next.

- Roman was one of the few
performers that also realized

the pandemic environment.

No live audience, so no noise
work, more nuanced,

work more patient,
be more expressive.

He handled that situation
beautifully.

- This Roman Reigns,
the Universal Champion,

has a much different attitude.

He's a different superstar.

The WWE fans were like,"This is
what we've been waiting for."

- For years and years and years
they try to make Roman the

top good guy act in WWE,
and the crowd did not want it.

They don't want to accept him
as the top guy.

Just wasn't the case.

He kind of made himself into

what he thought he should have
been this whole time,

and obviously worked.

- I'm the man with
the golden hand.

Everything I touch
has purpose.

Everybody is just trying to
compensate for not having fans,

and I'm over here changing the
entire game the way we do it.

It's time to build the team.

It's time to build the
Bloodline.

It was time to snatch Jey up by
his hair and throw him

in the deep end,and that's
exactly what we did.

- There goes the big dog.

There goes Roman Reigns.

There goes Mr. Main Event,
Mr. WrestleMania.

You know what
they say when they see me, Uce?

Which one are you?

- In our culture, we have Chiefs
or Métis people in our family

who are given these titles or
these rights.

It's just pretty significant to
be titled as a Chief.

- Our family relies on me being
the Tribal Chief.

That's who I am in this life.

It won't ever be you.

Because it will always,

always be me.

- In many ways, it's who Roman
sees himself as.

He sees himself
as the Head of the Table,

as the provider for his
family, for the industry.

He finally got the opportunity
to speak his mind,

explore different parts of his
personality and project those

onto the screen.

It became the most organic
version of Roman Reigns

that we've ever gotten in WWE.

- Jey Uso takes on his cousin,
the Universal Champion,

The Tribal Chief,

Roman Reigns inside
Hell in a Cell.

[yelling]

- No, no.

Stop, stop.

Stop man.

Stop Uce.

I could just tell in-in his
eyes, man, like

like he tapped into that.

[bell rings]

- Jey Uso uttered the words
"I quit" only to save

his brother Jimmy.

- And ultimately I beat him
into the Bloodline.

I put a spotlight on him like
he had never had before,

and I protected our family,
our legacy, and the ability to

represent our family
on a weekly basis.

- And now look who
is on the stage.

Roman Reigns' uncle Afa and his
father, Sika.

- And for him to be the
Tribal Chief in the world

of entertainment, but also in a
very real world of who we are.

It's an honor.

And everyone in our family is
supportive of that honor.

- And now the crowning of Roman
Reigns,

who now finds himself at the
Head of the Table.

- That's the moment of
validation I've been looking for

my entire life.

I'm what you call Afakasi.

I'm half Samoan.

When you grow up in a family
full of full Samoans,

you can't help but to feel like
there's a deficit of some sort.

You can't help but to feel like
you're not

whole.

[clapping]

- Awesome, awesome.

- No one will ever take
that from me.

That's where I made myself
whole.

That's where I made myself
enough.

And that's where I chose

I was good enough
to lead this family.

- The Ula Fala is sacred.

Those beads only go around

the head, and neck, and the
shoulders

of someone who can bear the
responsibility

of wearing the Ula Fala.

- And Reigns drags Edge
on top of Daniel Bryan.

- If I'm not number one,
I don't want to be here.

[bell rings]

- It was the main event
of WrestleMania.

It was huge stakes, a major
platform for everybody else,

but for me it was just
another night.

I'm only concerned with
what's next.

How can I be better?

How can I make this bigger?

How can I separate myself

even more from everybody?

And that was just the beginning.

I knew this business needed what
I am now, and I feel like this

business needs something even
bigger in the future.

So in some ways I still feel
the same,

but at the same time
I've evolved.

My umbrella is bigger.

My roots are deeper and
connected to more people now.

- What's up?

- Ready to kick some ass, man?

- Almost, almost.

- I'm in chill mode right now.

- Yeah, chill mode.

- This year the biggest
WrestleMania match of all time.

Winner take all Championship.
Unification.

WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
versus the record setting

Universal Champion Roman Reigns.

- WWE universe on their feet,
witnessing the spectacle

that is winner take all.

- Spear by Reigns.

The titles have been unified.

- After the match at
WrestleMania,

I went over to Roman,

'cause I've been watching
his whole career

- I appreciate that

- I just simply had to
acknowledge the guy's on top,

and I don't see him going away
anytime too soon.

- I carried WWE for far more
than the past two years.

We're going to be completely
honest about it, but it's

without question what I've done
since August 2020 and now with

all the hardware, everything
that matters

in this business on my back.

Can't nobody touch me.

You there.

- Sitting at home.

Acknowledge me.

- We're all sitting in a room.

Roman Reigns said,

"It's about time that everyone
simply acknowledged me."

and everyone in the room froze,
and we all looked at each other

and realized, that's the very
definition of the Tribal Chief,

Roman Reigns.

- Acknowledge me.

- We weren't looking for a
catchphrase.

It just happened.

- Respect my work.

Respect what I do for this
business.

Give me my flowers.

Now.

Not when I'm gone.

I'm not going to ask

for help.

I'm not going to ask for your
respect.

I'm gonna take it.

The Tribal Chief is head and
shoulders above everybody.

This is my show.

This is my camera.

I run it all.

When John came back, that's
how I knew it was working.

But when the legends and the
former top guys,

especially the ones who have
cleanly moved on,

when they start coming
back for you,

that's when you know you're
on the money.

John Cena was the very first
one to do it,

and what he get for it?

Smashed.

- There's market business
indicators that tell you what is

working and if it's not working.

Every market indicator for Roman
Reigns is through the roof.

It's not egotistical to say it's
something special,

it's accurate.

- This business is a lot
of opinion.

I'm a guy who likes data points.

The business is the absolute
best it's ever been.

It has gone from an IPO stock
at 35 to stay in the trenches

at seven, it closed and merged
with the company for an

estimated value of $21 billion
dollars,

under the watch of the Tribal
Chief.

He is leading in merchandise
revenue sales.

He is selling out arenas at
a pace that could only be

rivaled in the Attitude Era.

- Nowadays, there's so many
options in the universe of cable

TV and YouTube and this and that
and the other,

all the things that I don't
understand.

For him to, you know,
basically be where he's at now,

that's something that doesn't
come along

only once in a couple of
decades, you know,

so he's-he's the guy.

- This man is an able to
captivate an audience of 2.5

million people every Friday
night.

- Ain't nobody do it better.

Ain't nobody do it better.

- Roman Reigns has made it must
see television.

- So it's time to evolve again.

What can we show new?

How can we change it up?

How do we create a new moment?

[crowd cheers]

- And McIntyre feels it.

62,000 plus feel it.

- What the hell?

Somebody just yanked the
official out of the ring.

That is Solo Sikoa.

The Uso's younger brother,
Roman Reigns' cousin.

- So we called upon Solo.

He was the insurance policy

to make sure our family
continued the greatest reign

of all time.

- It was just an opportunity,
man, that Roman didn't need

to give me, you know,

but he brought me up and
he gave me that opportunity.

And now that I'm in the
business,

and I'm with Joe and my
brothers,

he's going to teach me

what I'm doing right,
what I'm doing wrong.

- Lift them up.

Put a spotlight on 'em,
showcase 'em.

Force them to elevate,
just like I have.

The Bloodline's gonna to have
all the gold soon.

It was time to level up.

It was time to move onward
and upward.

I knew, we about to change
the whole game.

- He's just-
is 100% legit.

He's legitimately tough.

He's a legitimate athlete.

And he came up the hard way.

His father was one of the
Samoans.

And-and you know, I'm here
to tell you Afa and Sika

were different kind of cats,
man.

Any-any time you come from
that Bloodline,

that is a Bloodline from hell.

- The main goal, I think, for me
at least, is I want our fans to

wake up and be like, "Damn it,

I wouldn't mind seeing another
one."

Like, "I would not mind seeing
Brock/Roman 8."

- You just know when somebody
has "It"

and I think he's a great,
special talent.

I'm preparing for everything
to get thrown at me tonight

because him and I have got
seven years of history.

- And we did it in fashion too.

At a main event in Nashville,
Tennessee.

Well, I mean, we did it,

as Nashville as you can do it.

Ain't nobody's seen a tractor
come out there

and start flipping rings.

- Lesnar's lifting up the ring
with a damn tractor.

- This is one of the damnedest
things

I've ever seen in my life.

- I was able to evolve Brock
Lesnar,

give him a platform to showcase
a little something different.

That's how you recreate magic.

- He knows he's the greatest,
and there's nothing that any of

us or anyone on the roster can
say to dissuade him from that.

Everybody that's around Roman
Reigns is now bigger

because of him.

- If you're not evolving,

you're dying in this business,

so I started eyeballing

Sami Zayn.

- I don't know what if I joined,

what if I joined up with
the Bloodline?

Here's this really fun character
interacting with this really

serious character.

He's just not himself right now.

That's it, okay?

He's just not-

lately he just hasn't been

very Ucey.

And it's not something that I
think fans at home are like,

"I can't wait to see these two
guys together."

But then when it's on screen,
it's just so fun and it's just

so enjoyable that you're like,
"Ooh, what's next?"

- And when you're all wolves.

It's hard to show that variance,
but when you throw a sheep in

the middle of the wolves,

that sympathy is going
to come real quick.

And then you can easily,
you know, relate to this poor,

innocent sheep in the middle
of the wolves.

And that's what Sami was
within the Bloodline

[crowd cheers]

- Whatchu doin' man?

I thought you were my brother
man.

- And we did the unthinkable.

We took a set of young men.

Twins who nobody knew
the difference between.

- Uso.

- Personalized 'em.

We made 'em individuals.

We made people care about Jey.

We made people wonder about
Jimmy.

It wasn't just, "Oh, we're the
twins, the pairs, the Usos."

Now, we're starting to flesh out
individual personalities.

- My career has elevated

because of him.

- You want it?
It's yours.

I'm done.

- Man, that storytelling and
character and emotion try to

bleed through the screen and
push through the screen.

That's a whole nother
different level.

- The Tribal Chief said he
wants peace.

- I don't give a damn with
the Tribal Chiefs says.

I come out on the other side

a whole nother character.

Right hand man.

Main event Jey U-

I got a main event today
from him.

I learned everything from him.

I thought I knew wrestling,
but he knows like,

how to make you look like a
bigger star.

We the-

[crowd yells "Ones"]

- We were able to showcase what
I feel like people have been

begging for-for a long time,
long term storytelling.

And that's a testament to the
entire Bloodline.

Myself, Wise Man, Usos, Solo.

And Sami.

You just can't do it in a
tougher time for entertainment

than I've done it.

We're competing against all
these major, you know,

entertainment conglomerates,
you know, and-and everything

in between and below,
you know, so.

- As driven as you are to be
successful at this and it's a

it's an all in lifestyle, right,
what we we do.

It's-
you have to believe it.

You have to be in it.

- It's never like a situation.

It's not a switch.

It just is who I am.

This is what it is.

I'm always in it.

Roman's
not a people pleaser.

He doesn't give a [bleep] what
anybody thinks about him.

He can't.

Because that's always been the
thing that's let him down.

That's the difference between
Joe and Roman is I've taken one

side of Joe and I've completely
magnified it, spotlighted it-

- Pyro in-ring as usual.

- -and turned that dial all the
way to max.

He doesn't care what anybody
thinks.

He'll do whatever he has
to do to be the very best.

Sometimes the bad guys win.

It's put me in a different
mindset,

a different emotional state.

That's how I've crafted.

Joe and Roman.

[crowd cheers]

[bell rings]

- Roman Reigns has done it
again.

As the 945 day reign continues.

- This isn't a promo.

I'm not, you know,

I didn't look in the
mirror in the shower

and come up with this stuff.

This is as real as it gets.

I'm the greatest of all time.

This WrestleMania solidifies it.

- We're expanding.

This business is growing.

You know, we're not dealing with
the Big M.

We're dealing with the Big "B"
billions of dollars now.

- Company has just gotten
so big.

It's a global juggernaut as it
has grown that responsibility to

be that number one guy also
grows.

And it just encompasses
so much more.

Roman Reigns handled it
flawlessly, and that's why you

have to give him,
as the kids say, "His Props."

- On rare occasions, an athlete
comes along that is so

dominant that they change
the entire face

of their chosen sport.

In the WWE right now,
we have the privilege of

witnessing the man that has
passed 1000 days

as champion, Roman Reigns.

- You can count on one hand the
amount of people

that've held the title longer
than him in WWE.

- Hulk Hogan.

Bob Backlund.

Bruno Sammartino.

And Roman.

- It is my honor
to present you with a brand new

Undisputed WWE
Universal Championship.

- If it was just about me,
I could have been done

a good bit ago.

For this to be what it's
supposed to be

to max out the potential
of it.

I can't be the only one that
benefits from this.

That's all I want.

That's all I ever wanted.

- Working with my cousin
changed my life.

He just always checks on me,
always checks on my brother,

You know, mentally,

"How y'all doing?"

Uh, always, just always tapping
in when I really need him.

- Congrats.

- Thanks dawg,

- Man, I love uce for that,
you know?

Sorry.

My hat goes off to him, man.

I'm so blessed.

I get to, like, do this for him.

Talk, talk, talk about this kind
of stuff.

Damn, I didn't even know I was
gonna get emotional, man.

[bleep].

But I love it, man.

Yeah, that's my Uce.

- They're genuine brothers.

I think it's one brother giving
another brother

their experience, their advice
just to help 'em grow.

Matt was always full of advice
and Joe would receive it.

Now, he's just passing it on.

- There's so many times
throughout the day,

or when I'm traveling,

I can hear him, "You little
[bleep]," you know,

"You think you're the man."

"You already know who
the Tribal Chief is."

Just talking [bleep] to me the
whole time, you know?

But laughing, you know, in a
very, uh, big brother way.

I just wish he was here to-to
take it in and go through

the process with me.

It's on me to just represent,
you know, represent him,

represent our family,
represent our Bloodline,

represent our legacy.

- I think it's very fair to say
that Roman Reigns is the most

cinematic portrayal of what a
champion is in the history

of Sports Entertainment.

If Roman Reigns decided
that today it's over.

His legacy would be that he took
the greatest family dynasty

in the history of WWE and
evolved it to a level

that no one ever could have
imagined.

And I dare say.

And no other family
will ever touch.

- Acknowledge me.

[crowd cheers]

- We only recognize something
what we romanticize about it

when we look back on it.

I hope there's a few more folks
out there that can realize that

Roman Reigns is a very
unique individual.

There's never been
a performer like him.

Roman Reigns as the Tribal Chief
is the greatest of all time.

- I learned to be in this
position a long time ago.

Just over the years I've crafted
it to just make it my mine now.

- He's got it so well figured
out.

He's going to be able to stay on
top his whole career.

- There's only one man
that can say

they're the face of this
company.

There's only one man that can
say they're the main event.

Not a main eventer.

The main event.

- He finally figured it out,

and now you have a guy

who's completely comfortable
with who he is

and he's comfortable

being the face of the company.

- That's where we fall back into
the experience.

That's where we fall back into
the formative years.

There's so many things in my
life that had to happen

in order for me to understand or
gain experience

to be equipped to handle
anything that happens to me.

And that's why I stand here

ready for anything.

I'm the high tide,
the highest tide.

Nobody lifted more ships
than me.

Whether you like it or not,
I did a lot of good.

While I was becoming great.

Acknowledge me.